Caramel Apple Hand Pies
A little hand-sized pastry dessert filled with apples and a sweet caramel made from dates.
- Yield: 12 pies 1x
- Category: Dessert
Ingredients
Scale
- 10-15 medjool dates (, pitted)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 4 apples (, cored and chopped into cubes )
- Juice of 1/2 a lemon
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tbsp honey OR maple syrup
- Puff pastry (, rolled to 0.25cm thick)
- 1 egg (, lightly beaten)
- Extra ground cinnamon to top
Instructions
- Place dates in a heatproof bowl and cover with boiling hot water. Leave for approximately 15-20 minutes, or until dates are soft. Drain water and place dates into a high powered blender. Add salt, and blitz until a paste is formed. You can leave this paste a little chunkier, or smooth, depending on what you prefer.
- Preheat oven to 180ºC. Place chopped apples in a large saucepan along with lemon juice, cinnamon, vanilla essence and honey (if using). Set pot over a medium heat and stir until apples soften. Remove from heat and stir date caramel through the apple mixture. Set aside to cool.
- Using one small and one larger cookie cutter, cut out circles in puff pastry. Place approximately one and a half tablespoons of apple mixture on to the smaller pastry circle. Cut a cross into the larger pastry circle, before covering the apple mixture. Use a fork to press down the edges. Lightly brush each hand pie with egg wash and sprinkle with a little ground cinnamon.
- Bake hand pies for 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes before consuming. Serve as is, or with a dollop of yoghurt, cream or ice cream.
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