Quick and Easy Apple Filled Puff Pastries

These Apple Filled Puff Pastries include flaky pastry and a sweetened cinnamon apple filling for an easy apple dessert. Whether served warm from the oven or cooled to room temperature, these pastries are a wonderful apple dessert bursting with apple flavor. You don’t need to make the pastry for these apple puff pastries. Instead, this recipe relies on store-bought puff pastry dough for ease of preparation.

To make the pastries, you first cook diced apples with brown sugar and cinnamon until tender. Then, while the apple filling is cooling, you cut circles from the sheet of puff pastry before cutting slits in one-half of each circle. Then, each circle gets folded in half and topped with apple filling before the sides are folded inward. The slits in the pastries allow steam to escape, ensuring that they bake evenly.

What are Apple Puff Pastries?

Apple puff pastries are pastries that include puff pastry dough and an apple filling. While they can have different shapes, with some being assembled into rectangles or rounds, these ones are assembled into triangle shapes.

Like other apple fillings, the apple filling in this recipe includes a mixture of apples, sugar, and cinnamon. Due to the size of these pastries, diced apple work better than apple slices as the pastries hold them better.

Pro Tips

• Choose apples that will hold their shape during the baking process, such as pink lady, honeycrisp, golden delicious, macintosh, and spartan.
• The puff pastry dough should be kept cold until you are ready to shape the pastries. This will ensure that it is easy to handle when you are working with the pastry.
• You can use a circular cutter to cut the pastry into circles, however, if you don’t have one, you could also trace around a round circular dish.
• Feel free to play with the filling, adding extra spices like nutmeg or cloves, and dried fruit such as dried cranberries or raisins.

What to Serve with Apple Puff Pastries?

These apple puff pastries are wonderful served with a dusting of powdered sugar and a cup of coffee or tea. However, if you would like to make them a little more like a danish, you could also drizzle them with an icing sugar glaze and let it set up on top before serving the pastries.

What Types of Apples are Best for Baking?

The best apples for baking are ones that you enjoy the flavor of that also hold their shape during the baking process. If you like a sweeter apple variety, macintosh and cortland are classic options whereas if you prefer an apple with some tarts, you may want to choose golden delicious.

Can I Use Homemade Puff Pastry?

Absolutely, if you want to tackle making homemade puff pastry dough, you could definitely use it in this recipe. However, it isn’t necessary if you would like the convenience of using frozen store-bought puff pastry.

Can I Add a Glaze to the Apple Puff Pastries?

Yes, you definitely could! An icing sugar glaze is a common addition to pastries like danishes, and would be no less delicious here. Simply mix icing sugar with enough milk to make it a pourable consistency. Then, drizzle it on top of the baked pastries and allow it to harden before serving them.

How to Store Apple Puff Pastries

Uneaten apple puff pastries can be kept in an airtight container at room temperature where they should stay fresh for up to 3 days. Alternatively, you can store them in the fridge for longer storage.

How to Make Apple Puff Pastries

Wash the apples and cut them into cubes. Cook them in a pan with the brown sugar and cinnamon until soft.

Cut circles from the pastry. Cut horizontal slits in half of the pastry and fold it in half.

Place 1 teaspoon of the apple filling on the uncut side of the pastry. Fold the two edges over and seal them to form a triangle. Place them on a baking sheet and bake them in a 180 C (356 F) oven for 25 minutes or until golden.

Serve the pastries dusted with powdered sugar!