ROSES DESSERTS RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 175°C (fan oven). Cut the apples into quarters and remove the seeds. Using a mandolin or a knife, cut the apple quarters into thin strips.
• If you are using a mandolin, your apple slices should be fairly soft. If you cut them with a knife and the strips are still too solid, place them in a bowl and add a teaspoon of cane sugar. Heat in the microwave for 30-45 seconds depending on thickness. 
• Mix the cane sugar from Guadeloupe and cinnamon. Cut the puff pastry widthwise to obtain 8 strips of about 25 cm by 5 cm. Sprinkle each rectangle with cinnamon sugar. 
• Place the apple slices along the pastry, leaving 3 cm overhanging. Fold the 3 cm of dough over the apples.  Then roll up the dough on itself. Put 2 drops of water to glue the dough and allow the rose to hold well.  
• Place the apple roses in pre-buttered muffin tins. Bake for 30 minutes.  

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Butter 2 small ramekins (6 to 8 ounce) and dust with white sugar.
• Place apple slices on a plate, overlapping slightly if necessary. Microwave on High about 45 seconds just until slices have softened a bit. Cover plate with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel.
• Mix together sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.
• Roll puff pastry sheet to less than 1/8-inch thickness. Using a pizza cutter, cut two 3-inch by 12-inch rectangles. Reserve remaining pieces for another use.
• Spread melted butter over dough; top with a generous amount of cinnamon-sugar. Place apple slices along 1 long edge of dough, about 1/4 inch beyond edge of dough, overlapping slices slightly. Fold bottom half of dough over the apple slices to form a long "folder" of dough with rounded edges of apple slices exposed.
• Beat egg and water together in a bowl. Paint surface of dough with egg wash. Sprinkle with more cinnamon-sugar, to taste.
• Starting from one end, roll dough not too tightly to form a rose-shaped pastry. Seal roll with end of dough strip.
• Transfer roses to prepared ramekins. Sprinkle with a little more cinnamon-sugar. Place ramekins directly on middle rack of preheated oven.
• Bake until well browned, about 45 minutes. Remove ramekins with tongs and place on baking sheet to cool 5 to 10 minutes. Remove apple roses from ramekins and finish cooling on rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving.