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    For The One You Love, Easy Edible Apple Roses

    Published: Feb 13, 2022 · Modified: Apr 25, 2022 by Chef Tripti · This post may contain affiliate links

    There is something special about a gift made with love. The effort and time to create something can touch another heart. Edible apple roses are a sustainable and delicious way to say I love you! Just four ingredients are what you need to make these roses, and although they look tricky to make, they are, in fact, relatively straightforward.

    Pastry apple roses in a vase framed by a picture frame
    Apple Roses

    I have some other apple based recipes that you might like to try. When they are available, why not go out and forage for your apples. Here is the UK, I am surprised at how easy it is to find apple trees when I am out and about, even in the city.

    My crab apple butter is a lovely sweet addition to porridge or breakfast cereal.

    Why not utilize your apple cores and peelings that will go into the bin by making apple cider vinegar?

    Jump to:
    • Ingredients
    • Instructions
    • How To Video
    • Substitutions
    • Variations
    • Storage
    • Top tip
    • 📖 Recipe
    • Food Safety

    Ingredients

    Pastry Apple Roses ingredients. Annotated
    Pastry Apple Roses Ingredients
    • Apples, prefereable red ones
    • Shortcrust pastry
    • Sugar
    • Cinnamon

    See the recipe card for quantities.

    Instructions

    First, prepare the apple. The apple slices will form the petals of the apple rose. The pastry will hold them together.

    Do not peel the apple because the skin will help with the appearance of the finished rose.

    Cut the apple in half and remove the core from each half. Cut wafer-thin sliced to give semi-circles of apple.

    Wafer thin semi-circle apple, sliced
    Apple Slices Cut Wafer-Thin Into Semi-Circles

    Sprinkle the cane sugar and the cinnamon over the apple petals and set aside

    Apple rose petal slices sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon
    Apple Rose Petals Sprinkled With Cinnamon And Sugar

    Roll out the shortcrust pastry sheet onto some parchment paper and measure and cut strips 1.5 inches in width. Place the strips in the refrigerator for five minutes to chill them a little.

    Shortcrust pastry sheet with ruler measuring strips for pastry apple rose
    Cut 1.5 Inch Strips Of Shortcrust Pastry

    Take out one strip from the refrigerator, leaving the others in the fridge until needed.

    Starting at the centre of the strip, roll it out first to one edge and then to the other until the strip reaches fourteen inches in length.

    Pastry strip for pastry apple rose rolled to 14 inches
    Pastry Strip Rolled To 14 Inches

    Lay the apple petals along one half of the strip, as shown in the photograph below. Make sure that they overlap each other. Fill the length of the pastry strip. Then take three smaller petals and lay them in the centre over the first layer, slightly lower. These three apple petals will form the bud in the centre.

    Apple petals laid overlapping onto pastry strip
    Apple Petals Arranged On Pastry Strip
    Layered apple petals on pastry strip
    Apple Petals Overlapping On Pastry Strip

    Next, bring the bottom half of the pastry strip over the bottom half of the apple petals and press down to seal. Press down the ends of the pastry strip to seal as well.

    Pastry strip with apple petals
    Bottom Half Of Pastry Strip Folded Over Apple Petals.

    Now the rose can take shape. Start to roll up the pastry from one end, keeping the apple petals in place.

    Rolling pastry strip to form apple rose
    Rolling The Pastry Strip

    Continue to roll until you reach the other end.

    Pastry rose rolled up showing base
    The Pastry Rose Rolled Up

    Seal the pastry and blend in the join.

    Apple pastry rose finished
    Apple Rose Finished, Ready For Baking

    Repeat this process with the other pastry strips. Place the completed roses in a muffin tray and place them in the refrigerator while the oven is warming up.

    Preheat the oven to 180ºC. When the oven is ready, remove the muffin tin containing the apple roses and place it on the middle shelf of the oven—Bake for thirty minutes. Halfway through, turn the muffin tin so that cooking is even.

    You can sprinkle with more sugar to your taste. Or brush with melted jam or sugar syrup.

    Once cooked, remove from the oven and serve hot.

    If you want to impress even more, why not create a bunch of roses by inserting a wooden skewer into the roses and presenting them with some foliage as decoration.

    These would go lovely with some homemade ice cream. Why not try to make my spiced ice cream?

    How To Video

    Here is a video guide to making your apple roses.

    How To Make Pastry Apple Roses

    Substitutions

    You can use castor sugar instead of raw cane sugar. Any granulated sugar will do; it adds a bit of sweetness to the apples and makes them softer.

    Instead of pink lady, you can use any apple with bright red skin.

    Variations

    You can use pre-rolled puff pastry instead of shortcrust pastry if you want a more flaky pastry.

    These apple roses are not overly sweet; if you wish to have them very sweet, it's better to use sweet shortcrust pastry.

    Storage

    These apple roses can be kept in an airtight container for up to three days on the countertop. Do not refrigerate; it will make the pastry soft.

    Top tip

    Make sure your apple slices are paper-thin; otherwise, the pastry will break when you roll.

    Cover the top with a loose foil to protect the apple slices if the pastry takes longer to cook and the apple slices are getting too dark in the oven.

    📖 Recipe

    Apple Roses in a muffin tin surrounded by foliage

    Apple Roses

    Chef Tripti
    Elegant pastry roses made with shortcrust pastry, apples and cinnamon.
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    Prep Time 30 minutes mins
    Cook Time 30 minutes mins
    Total Time 1 hour hr
    Course Dessert, Snack
    Cuisine Modern European

    Equipment

    • Digital scales
    • Muffin tray

    Ingredients
      

    • 150 gms Pink lady apple one apple
    • 320 gms Pre rolled shortcrust pastry
    • 2 teaspoon Raw cane sugar
    • ¼ teaspoon Cinnamon powder

    Instructions
     

    • Wash and pat dry the apple. Cut the apple in half, remove the core and cut into paper thin slices with the skin. The skin will give it a rose colour and appearance.
    • Sprinkle the cane sugar and cinnamon powder onto the apple slices and set aside.
    • Roll out the pre-rolled shortcrust pastry.
    • Using a ruler, measure out six 1.5 inch strips from the short side of the pastry. Cut the strips and refrigerate for five minutes.
    • Remove one strip at a time and stretch the strip from the centre outwards to each end using a rolling pin. The strip will stretch from nine inches to 14 inches. Make sure it's even.
    • Arrange the apple slice on the top half of the dough lengthwise. Make sure the skin side is outwards, away from the dough, and they overlap each other. Eight slices of the apple should be enough. Next, arrange three smaller slices in the centre just under the main row of apple slices. These three apple slices will be the inside bud part of the rose.
    • Bring the bottom half of the pastry to cover the bottom half of the apple slices.
    • Press down to seal the pastry and seal the ends of the pastry as well.
    • Starting from one end, carefully roll the pastry, keeping the apples in place. Seal and smooth over the edge of the pastry when the rolling is complete.
    • Place the apple rose into a muffin tray.
    • Repeat this process with all the strips and refrigerate.
    • Preheat the oven to 180ºC (Fan assisted oven.)
    • Remove the muffin tray with apple roses from the fridge and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Halfway through baking, turn the tray to colour the roses and cook evenly.
    • Once the pastry has cooked, remove it from the oven and serve hot, sprinkled with more sugar if you like, or brush with melted jam or sugar syrup.
    • To make a bouquet insert a bamboo skewer into the bottom, right through the centre.
    Keyword Edible gifts, simple, Valentine's
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    Food Safety

    In a professional kitchen, food hygiene and safety is a top priority, and from the very beginning of training, I practised good habits and routines. Of course, it is also very, very important to practice good food hygiene and safety at home. Here are some fundamental practices to adopt in the kitchen.

    • Wash your hands regularly while preparing, handling and cooking food
    • Wipe down counter tops and high contact points regularly
    • If you cook meat and fish, do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat. Use separate chopping boards for meat and fish. Wash your chopping boards immediately after use.
    • Thoroughly cook food to a minimum temperature of 165 °F (74 °C)
    • Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods (more than 2 hours)
    • Store food correctly

    For more details of food hygiene and safety in the home, visit the UK Government's Food Standards Agency webpage.

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