Caged Apples
A delicious way to bake using fluffy all butter puff pastry, and apples ... If you cannot find cooking apples eg Bramley, then use normal eating apples.
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 2 Apples, peeled, cored and cut in half
- 1 Sheet Sheet of ready made puff pastry
- 4 tsp Sweet mincemeat. Click on the link in comments to see how to make your own)
- 100 g Melted butter - I used unsalted butter
- 1 tsp Brown sugar
- 1 tsp Teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 Beaten egg
Instructions
- Pre heat your oven to 200 deg C and
- Line a baking sheet with baking paper, grease the paper with oil, or butter.
- Cut your pastry sheet into 9 equal squares (you will be using 8 of them)
- Take 4 squares and cut them making slits matching the diagram shown above. You start with 5 along the top and bottom of your square and then add the rest in between. You should finish with rows of 3 and 4 slits.
- Sit the other 4 uncut squares on your baking sheet.
- Put a teaspoon of mincemeat in the hole of each apple where the core has been removed and sit it mincemeat side down on the pastry squares.Brush around the edges of these with a little beaten egg.
- Add your cinnamon and sugar to the melted butter and brush each apple generously.
- You now need to gently pick up the 4 squares that you have added the slits to, they open out a little revealing a lattice pattern. Sit it on top of your apples and pinch the base and top edges together to seal.
- Brush the top and edges with beaten egg and sprinkle a little more sugar over each.
- Bake for around 15 – 20 minutes until puffed and golden. Serve with cream, ice cream, or vanilla custard.