In honour of the return of the Masterchef team to our screens I am going to share with you a little apple creation I just cooked up for dessert. Hubs and I cooked a marvellous roast pork dinner tonight and as a result of me being rather over zealous in my apple peeling there was a some leftover apple sauce. The apple slinky I got for my birthday has really made peeling and cutting apples so much fun that I tend to over use it whenever possible.
Not wanting to be wasteful I thought a bit of an apple dessert might be called for. So I cranked the old gas oven back up and grabbed a piece of puff pastry out of the freezer. Once the pastry was soft enough I sliced off about a third of the sheet and lay the bigger piece in a greased shallow ceramic dish (about 15cmx5cmx3cm)
I then spooned the apple mixture over the pastry. There was probably about a cup and a half of apple all up. Which I had just cooked on the stove for about 10-20 mins with a little sugar and water. I then stretched out the remaining pastry strip and after turning in all the dish edges placed over the apple. The top actually turned out to have a few overlapping thin layers. I then covered the top with cinnamon sugar and brushed lightly with milk.
If you can't find a dish an alternative is covering a sheet of pastry with a thin layer of apple and then loosely rolling. Gently press down on the roll the blunt side of a bread and butter knife. Again cover with cinnamon sugar and brush with milk.
Place in oven and bake until pastry is light and puffy. About 20-30 mins (I think...times and measurements are not really my strong point)
Anyway the real kickers for this dish were the tinned caramel, melted chocolate and whipped cream that I served with it. To make the cream just a little sweeter I added a bit of icing sugar. I know I know not exactly weight loss approved but very very yummy which is what I love most about Masterchef. They don't worry about the weight loss factor either...it is all about taste
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