Winter Spiced Knots

@tastemade

These lovely treats are perfect for cold winter nights to warm you up

Ingredients

  • 1/2 stick of butter⠀
  • 4 granny smith apples
  • 1/3 cup of sugar
  • 1 tbsp fresh orange juice⠀
  • Zest of 1 orange
  • 1 tsp cinnamon⠀
  • 1 cup of fresh cranberries⠀
  • 1/4 cup of flour⠀
  • 1 sheet of puff pastry, ready rolled⠀
  • Vanilla ice cream, to serve⠀

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 220°C (200°C Fan / Gas Mark 7)
  2. Grease a 6 hole muffin tin with butter and set aside
  3. Peel, core and roughly chop the apples. Place into a pan with the sugar, orange juice, orange zest, and cinnamon and cook for 5 minutes to break everything down slightly.
  4. Add the cranberries and flour and cook for another 5 minutes, then set aside to cool.
  5. Flour a work surface and lay the pastry out, then cut 6 squares out of the pastry.
  6. Push the pastry into the holes of a 6 hole muffin tin and then spoon the filling into the pastry. Twist the overhanging pastry up and over the filling to cover and twist them together to form a parcel.
  7. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes then remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes in the tin before removing the parcels from the muffin holes and serving with vanilla ice cream.