One of the most popular, very tasty, enough diet desserts is apple pie from puff pastry. It takes a fairly small amount of time to prepare baked goods, as well as an affordable set of ingredients. Looking through culinary online books, you can stumble upon a large number of recipes prepared by beginners and very young housewives. Pie with apples - one of the most popular types of baking on the "children's pages".
If you don’t have a simple and quick recipe for apple pie in your home cookbook or you and your child decide to master the initial stages of culinary skills, then our article will be useful. The pack combines everything that may relate to the theme of "apple pie": puff pastry, recipes, photos of ready meals and serving options, some tips from experienced housewives and cooking tricks.
Store or home
Before you start cooking any pastries from puff pastry, you should solve the problem: shop or home. Of course, two types of dough have their own advantages and, accordingly, disadvantages. The biggest plus of the store dough is the fact that you don’t have to waste time cooking. At the same time, no one gives a guarantee that the store version of the test is made exclusively from healthy products that are safe for health.
If a store option is chosen for making apple pie from puff pastry, then when buying you should pay attention to the following nuances:
- Packaging must be airtight. The slightest moisture or sudden temperature changes can be harmful to the test.
- Puff pastry is usually sold in sealed, opaque packaging. But even through it you can feel the places of shape change, feel some swelling and angles on the surface. All this will say that the dough has repeatedly thawed and frozen again. This option is better not to purchase.
- If this is not your first time baking from puff pastry, then try to give preference to a trusted manufacturer. If the dough is purchased for the first time, it is better to buy a yeast version for testing. This dough is simple and convenient to use, tender in structure. The apple pie from the puff yeast dough will turn out more magnificent.
- Do not forget to look at the labeling, expiration dates, composition when buying.
If the store version does not suit you, then we offer a quick test recipe that even an inexperienced beginner can handle.
Instant puff pastry
This is perhaps the easiest option. For cooking, you need high-quality butter or good margarine, as well as wheat flour. We take the ingredients at the rate of one to one. For example, 250 g of flour - the same amount of oil. Do not forget to sift the flour. Add salt. Oil is sent to the freezer for 10-15 minutes. After a little freezing, rub it on a fine grater, add it to the flour and mix everything thoroughly. Pour 6-8 tablespoons of water. Knead the dough. We send it to the refrigerator, covering it with plastic wrap or food foil. This option is not recommended for making large pies with filling. The dough is more suitable for baking small puffs, apple sticks, as well as classic pies.
Puff pastry
Experienced housewives most often prepare apple pie from cream puff pastry. For cooking, take oil, high-quality flour, as well as sour cream or cream. Still need a pinch of salt, baking powder. We mix the sifted flour with sour cream, rub the oil, add the baking powder. Knead the dough thoroughly, salt. The resulting ball is closed with a film, sent to the refrigerator.
Puff pastry is formed in the same way, regardless of which recipe was chosen: quick, creamy, yeast, cottage cheese and so on. After the ball has been in the refrigerator, it needs to be rolled out into a thin sheet. Next is a process called tuning. It is a special way of rolling dough. The original rectangle must be collapsed three times. We wrap the dough in such a way that the twist is conducted from the edge to the middle. Roll out the dough again. We send it to the refrigerator. Turning puff pastry is recommended 6 to 8 times. Thanks to the air that is between the layers, when exposed to high temperature, the dough becomes lush and airy.
Puff pastry apple pie recipe
To prepare a dessert, you need a simple set of products. It:
- one layer of home or store puff pastry;
- 80 g of sugar;
- 45 g of plums. oils;
- 4 large green apples;
- a couple teaspoons of cinnamon.
Ingredients for Making Vanilla Cream
We need:
- vanilla pod;
- three yolks;
- a glass of milk;
- 2.5 tbsp. l drain. oils;
- 4 tbsp. l starch;
- 60 g of sugar.
If there is no natural vanilla, you can take vanillin.
Description of the cooking process
An apple pie made from puff pastry in the oven is baked very quickly. Cooking time is from 45 to 55 minutes. The temperature is standard - 180 degrees. In this recipe, the pie will be a large round cake filled with delicious custard, garnished with apple slices. The recipe does not limit the hostesses, allowing you to experiment with both the appearance of the cream and the baking form. It can be small triangular apple pies, beautiful roses, formed by folding a layer of puff pastry and slices of apples. You can make the cake square, round, oval, put the filling inside, spread the apples on top. Variations are varied.
We will prepare a classic apple pie from puff pastry. With a photo and a detailed description, it will be easier for beginners to master the recipe.
Main steps
The first thing to do is prepare the dough. Whichever option (store or home) is chosen, the process of defrosting has not been canceled. Professionals strongly discourage using a microwave to defrost puff pastry. The process should take place at room temperature in natural conditions.
The second point is related to rolling the dough. There are also several options here. Firstly, you can just stretch your hands a piece of dough and decompose it into a pre-prepared form. Secondly, the dough is rolled out on the table, cut into the required number of pieces of the right size. The option of rolling will depend on the type of baking.
Cooking cream filling. Pour milk into a small saucepan, put on medium heat. If you managed to find the vanilla pod, then cut it into two parts, eliminating the seeds. We send it to milk. If it was not possible to buy natural vanilla, then you can replace it with crystalline vanilla (do not confuse it with vanilla sugar). Stir the "vanilla" milk, bring to a boil. We turn off the gas. In a separate bowl, beat the starch with sugar, gradually introducing the yolk into the mass. Mix thoroughly, pour in the milk. Move the mass from the plate to the pan. We put the latter on fire, stirring constantly. We are waiting for the cream to become thick. After removing the pan from the stove, take out the vanilla pod. At the last stage, add the butter, mix the cream thoroughly and cover with cling film. We put in the refrigerator for a while so that it cools.
We distribute the dough laid in the form, align it, cutting off the excess edges. We make a fork with several “injections” over the entire surface of the dough. We send the form to a well preheated oven for 15 minutes.
During this time, you need to wash, remove the core, chop the apples. The thickness of the slices should be about 6 mm. Pour apples with cinnamon and sugar. Mix thoroughly. We take out the cake, fill it with cream, beautifully put the slices, send it to the oven for 30 minutes.
Cake without cream
You can choose an easier way to make apple pie from puff pastry. A piece of dough is divided into 2 parts. Put the first part in a mold, put apple slices mixed with sugar and cinnamon. The second part of the dough is covered, like a blanket, with apple filling. Grease the top layer with egg yolk. In the oven, the cake is 35-45 minutes at 180 degrees.