Easy Churro Apple Tartlets
These Easy Churro Apple Tartlets are a ridiculously delicious! Filled with caramelized apples, placed in a mini-churro bowl. Add your favorite caramel, chocolate, or Nutella sauce and drizzle over the top. Feeling it? Add some vanilla ice cream too!
Equipment
- Mini-tart pan/muffin pan
- Board
- Rolling Pin
- Glass or baking ring
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 1 package puff pastry rolled out
- 4 Granny Smith apples washed, peeled, cored and cubed
Apple Filling
- 4 tbsp butter
- 2 tsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp flour
- pinch of kosher salt
- 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
Cinnamon-Sugar Topping
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- caramel, chocolate, Nutella sauce drizzle ove the top
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Roll out puff pastry on a lightly floured board. Cut out 3 inch circles using a baking ring or a glass.
- Spray tart/muffin pan. Press puff pastry into tart/muffin pan.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden. Puff pastry will rise. Let cool for 2-3 minutes and gently press pastry back down into the pan.
- While still warm, remove tartlets and coat completely with cinnamon-sugar topping. Set aside on a baking sheet.
Apple Filling
- Wash, peel, core and cube apples. Place in a large mixing bowl.
- Add lemon juice, cinnamon, flour, pinch of kosher salt, packed dark brown sugar, granulated sugar and mix.
- In a medium sauce pan, melt the butter and add the apple mixture. Cook apples over medium heat, stirring occasionally for about 40-45 minutes or until the apples become tender and caramelized. You may need to lower the heat slightly if caramelizing too quickly.
- Once the apples are tender and are a nice brown color, remove from heat and let cool for about 10 minutes.
- Using a tablespoon, spoon apple filling into the churro bowls.
- Drizzle caramel, chocolate and/or Nutella sauce over the top and enjoy! If desired add a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
