Apple Tartlets

This is one of my fall favorite quick recipes to use those lovely little red apples my backyard tree provides! It's beautiful but also tasty - a great treat or dessert to make for company or bring to a party.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 15 mins
• Total Time: 25 mins
• Calories: 357 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 (17.5 ounce) package frozen puff pastry, thawed
• ½ cup apricot preserves
• ½ cup superfine sugar
• 6 red apples, thinly sliced
• ½ cup lemonade
• 12 pats unsalted butter
• 1 pinch coarse sugar crystals, or as needed

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Step 2

Cut puff pastry into 12 equally-sized squares and arrange on a baking sheet.

Step 3

Dip apple slices in lemonade and place diagonally onto each puff pastry square; top each with 1 pat butter. Sprinkle superfine sugar over each square.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until tartlet edges are golden, about 12 minutes.

Step 5

Bring apricot jam to boil a saucepan; cook and stir until jam is thinned, 1 to 2 minutes. Brush jam onto warm tartlets; sprinkle each with sugar crystals.