The Easiest Apple Dessert Roses Recipe (Perfect Every Time)
These Apple Dessert Roses look stunning and intricate and are incredibly easy to make! They turn out perfect each time and are an ideal dinner table centerpiece.
Course Pastries
Cuisine Italian
Keyword Apple Dessert Roses, mothers day dessert, roses pastry
Prep Time 35 minutesminutes
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour20 minutesminutes
Servings 12roses
Author Valya's Taste of Home
Ingredients
Ingredients you will need:
1pack(2 sheets – Puff Pastry)
1cup– Apricot preserves
4– red delicious apples
½large(or 1 small – lemon)
1quartwater
Flour for dusting cutting board
Confections’ sugar for dusting roses
Instructions
How to Prep the Apples
We’ll start by preparing the apples first. Into a medium bowl, add water and squeeze half of a large lemon. Wash the apples and cut them in half. Remove the core and slice then thinly using a knife or a mandolin.
Next, place these thin slices of apple in water mixed with lemon juice so that your apples don’t brown while preparing them.
Next, microwave the apples for 5 minutes and set them aside. Alternatively, you can put them in a pot and heat them on low until the water almost boils. Drain the water right before you’re ready to use the apples.
How to Assemble Apple Dessert Roses
Now dust a large cutting board with flour. Place one puff pastry sheet and coat the entire sheet with flour.
Using a rolling pin, roll out the sheet to double the size of about 12x18 inches.
Now cut this sheet into 6 pieces that are 3x12 inches. Next, spread a teaspoon of apricot preserves onto one of the pieces.
Place drained apple slices on one side of the pastry and fold the pastry in half.
Now pinch both ends of the pastry and start rolling it into a roll. Pinch the end to the rose to secure it.
Now place the dessert rose in a greased pan. I prefer using parchment paper to line my sheet using it makes it easier to remove the roses from the pan after they are done baking. This is because after the roses bake, they lead a little and get stuck to the pan.
Next, repeat the same steps for the second puff pastry sheet.
Once all puff pastry sheet has been rolled into dessert roses, bake the roses for 45 min at 375F on the lowest oven rack.
Once done, let them cool for 5 minutes on the pan and then remove them with a spatula. After they cool completely, dust some confections’ sugar for decoration. Optionally, you can also sprinkle some cinnamon powder onto it.
Your beautiful dessert roses are ready to be served! Serve with your favorite desserts and have them with a delicious cup of latte.