A Lovely Breakfast: Apple Turnovers

I had an October weekend off, a few extra mountain apples from Granny and Poppa, and a leftover puff pastry from making chicken pot pie a couples weeks ago. Put it all together and what do you get?! A lovely breakfast of apple turnovers! Ina Garten helped out -- she lended me her Apple Turnovers recipe from footnetwork.com. I may've gotten a little too into Ina. After the third or fourth muttered "oh Ina, this is going to be so good!" Patrick started giving me weird looks. I guess I couldn't contain my excitement. We also halved the recipe to makes 4 turnovers. Be sure to read the notes after the recipe, it was a morning filled with drama!

Apple Turnovers  Serves: 8
1 teaspoon grated orange zest
3 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice
3 tablespoons dried cherries  We used cranberries because they were in the pantry
3 tablespoons sugar, plus extra to sprinkle on top
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Pinch kosher salt
1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon water, for egg wash


   If you've got puff pastry in the freezer but didn't plan on breakfast, no worries. Just set it on a pan next to a window while you're prepping everything!

   Then your oven might decide to go off half way through cooking the pastry. If this happens flip the breaker and move on to the toaster. I'm not really sure what happened this morning but there was a lot of beeping and no cooking. :-( But we finished the pastries in the toaster oven without any trouble.

And if you're feeling craft and making breakfast for a loved one, put some hearts on it with extra puff pastry!

1 comment:

  1. This sounds as good as the pumpkin pie was!