Ingredients – Serves 4

Unsalted Butter - For Greasing
150g Ready made puff pastry dough
Plain flour - for dusting
4 Cooking Apples
4 tbs Vanilla Sugar
150ml Double Cream
1-1.5 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1 Egg Yolk - Beaten with 1 tbs water

Instructions

1.Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4. Grease an 1.5-litre ovenproof dish with butter.
2.Roll out the pastry to 3 mm thick on a lightly floured surface and cut into four large squares.
3.Peel and core the apples and place one in the middle of each square Sprinkle with the sugar and fill each cavity with a quarter of the cream and a pinch of cinnamon. Bring the corners of the squares up to the top of each apple and pinch together leaving a small opening to allow steam to escape.
4.Brush with the egg yolk mixture, place in the prepared dish and bake for 40 minutes