How To Make Puff Pastry Cupcakes?

Who doesn’t like some delicious puff pastry cakes? Especially if they are sweet. Certainly no one can resist their charm, so it’s no wonder they are frequently included in social gatherings and events.

For this reason, it is convenient to know how they can be prepared, from scratch. Our recipe will guide you step by step.

The secret dough of puff pastry

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon of salt (5 g).
• ½ glass of water (125 ml).
• 3-4 sticks of salted butter (250 g).
• ½ teaspoon of lemon juice (2.5 ml).
• 2 cups of medium strength flour (240 g).
• All-purpose wheat flour (just to sprinkle the surface where we are going to knead)

Utensils

• Roller.
• Spoon.
• Knife.
• Cloth cloth.
• Vegetable paper.
• Kitchen brush.

• Plastic paper (film).
• Bowl (preferably glass).

Preparation of the dough

1. First, we put the flour, the lemon juice and the salt in a bowl.
2. We stir the ingredients with a spoon so that they begin to integrate. We must leave a space in the center to place the butter and water  later.
3. Next, we add the butter and begin to knead (as we do this, we add the water, little by little).
4. We knead for a while to get a sufficiently elastic dough. When we have it ready, we roll it into a ball.
5. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 5 or 7 minutes wrapped in a clean, dry cloth.

How to puff the dough

1. Once this time has elapsed, we remove the cloth and make a cross on the surface of the ball with a knife.
2. Next, we will take the rolling pin and begin to flatten the dough to obtain four folds. (We must ensure that the center of the dough is always thicker than the rest).
3. In the center of the dough, we place a little butter and cover it with the 4 folds of dough (it should be a kind of wrapped square package). Each fold should be greased with just a little butter (for this we will use the brush) and flour.
4. We hit the center of the package lightly with the roller to undo the butter that we put there.
5. We take the “package” to the refrigerator for about 10 minutes.
6. After this time, we unwrap the package, stretch the dough and roll it with a simple fold. We return it to the refrigerator for another 10 minutes.

We already have our puff pastry dough ready. Now what remains is to knead it with the rolling pin on a surface (previously dusted with wheat flour) and use it according to the recipe that we are going to cook.

The secret of this dough lies in the temperature of the water (which should always be warm so that the ingredients can be mixed easily) and, of course, in respecting the kneading and resting times.

There are those who use lard instead of butter. However, it all depends on the taste of each cook.

Puff pastry apple cupcakes recipe

Ingredients

• 4 medium apples.
• The zest of 1 lemon.
• 1 medium egg (60 g).
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon (5 g).

• Peel of an orange.
• ¾ cup of brown sugar (150 g).
• Puff pastry (the required amount).
• 2 tablespoons of salted butter (20 g).
• Olive oil (preferably extra virgin).
• To decorate: sliced ​​almonds, spelled.

Preparation of the filling

1. We chop the apples into small pieces (if we choose to make cubes, we must ensure that they are not too thick).
2. Preheat a frying pan over medium heat with a drizzle of olive oil.
3. When it is hot, add the butter and stir so that it melts.
4. Once the butter has melted, add the chopped apples and brown sugar. We must stir constantly to avoid burning the ingredients.
5. Apart, we grate the peel of the orange and the lemon. We booked.
6. We preheat the oven to 180 ºC.
7. Add to the mixture in the pan a teaspoon of cinnamon and the lemon and orange peels. We stir well.
8. We leave the pan over low heat for about 20 or 30 minutes, so that the ingredients become a kind of thick pudding. We must not let the apple fall apart too much, otherwise we will get a compote.

Assembling the apple cupcakes

1. Grease and flour a tray to place the puff pastry dough.
2. We cut out several squares of a medium size and, in the center of each one, we will add a portion of the apple mixture. We wrap each square as if they were small “packages”.
3. We break the eggs and beat them with a fork. With the help of a brush, we will spread a little egg on each package (so that they brown while they cook in the oven).
4. We take the tray to the oven for 15 minutes at 200 ºC.
5. Once this time has elapsed, remove from the oven and let the puff pastry cakes cool to room temperature. Decorate with the almonds and a little spelled.

Now that you know how to make the dough, you can make various recipes for puff pastry cupcakes: sweet and savory. You no longer have an excuse to stop enjoying them.

Go ahead and make your own cupcakes and create your own variants.