Turnovers are usually made with fruit, but sometimes contain other sweet or even savory fillings.Īpple turnovers are the most common type, but almost any kind of fruit can be made into a turnover. What are apple turnovers?įor the uninitiated, a puff pastry turnover, sometimes also called a hand pie, is made by putting filling onto a piece of round or square pastry, folding (turning!) the pastry over to enclose, then sealing and baking it. Find out more about affiliate links and how they help this site. But it did put a dent in my carefully planned recipe testing and scheduling, and I am not sorry. ![]() So I went down the rabbit hole of internet and cookbook research and recipe testing, and today I bring you a much improved version of the sad bakery apple turnover, made more apple-y, more flaky and puffier that just about any you can buy, thanks to a steam oven. The filling tasted of nothing but sugar, and the pastry, though light, left that weird greasy aftertaste which definitely does not come from butter.Ī few days later when we came home, I still hadn’t stopped thinking about how much better that turnover should have been (you know where this is going, right?). This is the point where I wish I could tell you it set off some kind of ecstatic, delicious joy, but instead it made me a little sad. I did what any sane human would do and bought one. Puffy, light pastry and a good amount of apple filling flecked with cinnamon, the whole thing covered in a good dusting of powdered sugar and ready to make a mess of whatever holiday attire you happened to be wearing. The little bakery in town was displaying a tray of apple turnovers, and they looked promising. ![]() Stuck in the best possible ways, with no chain restaurants, no high rise developments, just sleepy streets, little family businesses and long stretches of pristine beaches where the kids can run and play all day long. We’ve just come home from a vacation in one of those little beach towns which seems stuck in the 80’s. ![]() So now I have to share a recipe with you and it could not wait. I had a different recipe planned for you today but last week I ate my first traditional puff pastry apple turnover in years, and it changed everything*.
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