Description
Delicious served warm or cold, as a dessert or with coffee.
Ingredients
- Cooking Apples
- Mixed Spice
- Demerara Sugar
- Puff Pastry
- Ricotta Cheese
- Orange, Zest Of
- Orange, Juice Of
- Milk
- Sliced Almonds
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220c / fan200c / gas 7 & lightly grease a baking sheet
- Slice the apple into thin slices & toss with the mixed spice & demerara sugar
- Set to one side
- Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface to a 30cm bt 28cm rectangle
- Spread half of the apple mixture onto half of the pastry leaving a 1
- 5cm rim round the three edges
- Place the ricotta into a bowl & beat with a wooden spoon to soften
- Add orange rind & juice to the ricotta & mix well together
- Spoon the ricotta over the apple, then spread the remaining apple over the ricotta
- Brush the edges of the pastry with water then fold over the other half of the pastry to enclose the other mix
- Press the edges together & pinch to decorate
- Make diagonal slashes over the top at 2cm intervals, do not cut all the way through the pastry
- Brush the pastry with milk the sprinkkle over the demerara sugar & flaked almonds
- Carefully lift onto the pre greased baking sheet & place in oven
- Bake for 15 minutes then reduce the temperature to 180c / gas4 for a further 15 minutes till golden
- Remove from oven & allow to cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet, then move to a cooling rack