Ok, so this is what I love about cooking. After making a savoury pie last night for some of the family, I had a little bit of pastry left over. I looked around my sisters kitchen to see what I could use to make a dessert.
I firstly spotted an apple in the fruit bowl. Then I thought Cinnamon, an apples perfect companion, which I found in the spice cupboard next to some Golden Syrup (that’ll do too!).
Next I tried the drinks cabinet and saw some Bourbon…….. that should work?!
To finnish the dish off it needed something else, there’s always chocolate in the house, so I grabbed some chocolate buttons. The one place I hadn’t looked in was the freezer, as I opened it there was some ice cream jumping out at me, perfect!
Initially, I was going to roll out some balls from the pastry, but then decided on small discs, which I moulded using the end of a rolling pin.
And there I had it, a dessert recipe after 5 minutes off scavenging through my sisters kitchen……thanks Clare!! x
Ingredients (this served 3 people):
-Puff Pastry (approx 100g)
-Knob of Butter
-1 Apple, peeled & finely chopped
-1 tsp ground Cinamon
-2 tbsp Golden Syrup
-50 mls Bourbon
-1 Egg, beaten
-Handful of Chocolate Buttons
-Ice-cream (Vanilla would work best)
Method:
– Pre-heat the oven to 200 oC.
– Melt the butter in a small saucepan on a low heat.
– Add the apple, cinnamon & syrup. Cook for approx 15 mins until the apple has soften.
– Whilst the apple is cooking, roll out the pastry into small round discs. I made 9 out of my left over pastry. Use the end of the rolling pin to mound the discs around. Brush the egg over the top of the discs.
– Add the bourbon to the apple mix towards the end of the 15 mins.
– Add the apple mix evenly into the pastry discs. Keep aside the little bit of sauce that should be left over in the pan.
-Place the discs in the oven for approx 20 mins, or until the parcels have puffed up and are lightly browned.
-Whilst the parcels are in the oven, melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of boiling water. Add a little milk if the chocolate sauce gets too thick.
-Set out the desert plates and drizzle on the left over sauce.
– Remove the parcels from the oven and place on the plates. Drizzle the chocolate sauce over everything and add a dollop of ice cream. Eat immediately whilst the parcels are warm.
this is brilliant. Love how you haven’t been so pretty about the plate of food but you can still see that it’s gonna taste frikin awesome (: keep up the good work!
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Thanks Aussie Baker!
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