Homemade Apple Roses Recipe
We were actually surprised by how easy this was to make a delicious and beautiful apple rose pastry at home. You can use homemade puff (like the blitz puff we did recently) or you can use store bought puff pastry, this recipe is pretty versatile. For the apple, you want something that's sweet, but has a decent amount of tartness, and if it's not quite tart enough, just sprinkle on a little bit of lemon juice. We like using an apple with more red in the peel, because it gives it that red rose sort of impression after baking. Don't worry about lemon juice on the apple slices after cutting, it's going to get toasty and brown in the oven anyway.
The butter/sugar mixture is where most of the customization comes in. You can add all manner of different spices for different flavour profiles. You can also add a very small amount of liquor like rum or bourbon to the mix for a more nuanced flavour than just adding vanilla (or instead of the vanilla). For the apple, we recommend a good crisp sweet apple with nice tartness like a Fuji, Gala, or Honeycrisp.