Filo dough baskets with apples

The recipe for this delicious homemade pastry includes ingredients such as phyllo dough, fresh apples, granulated sugar, butter and shelled hazelnuts.

First, let's prepare the filling. To do this, wash, dry and peel fresh, medium-sized apples. I had quite sweet, winter ones. We cut the pulp, removing the seed pods, into a medium cube (as for pies.) Place it in a frying pan in which a tablespoon of butter has already melted (melt the rest of the butter — we will need it when working with phyllo dough).

Fry the apples a little so that they absorb the creamy aroma and soften a little. Then add sugar, stir and turn off the heat. The filling is ready.

Now let's make the phyllo dough. I used freshly prepared, but if you have frozen, let it thaw completely at room temperature, otherwise it may break. We take a sheet of dough (I have about 25×25 centimeters), which we have lying directly on the parchment, and coat it with melted butter.

Then we take the second sheet of dough and cover it with the first one, which we also coat with oil. Cut the square sheet into 4 equal parts. We do the same with the remaining sheets of dough (that is, we get 4 pieces of 2 folded sheets each — that’s 16 cut squares).

For baking we need a silicone muffin mold. Grease it a little with butter. Place phyllo dough cups. For one basket, you need to stack 3 squares on top of each other, slightly shifting their edges to create delicious ruffles. That is, for one basket there are 6 layers of phyllo dough (in one there are 7 according to mathematical calculations). Place the dough in the molds, pressing them with your fingers to the bottom and walls, additionally making airy rose-like ruffles.

Let's move on to the filling — just put the apples in the holes. Just do not add the juice that remains in the pan so that the dough bakes well.

All that remains is to sprinkle the apple filling with chopped (not too much) hazelnuts.

We bake our lovely baskets with phyllo dough, apples and hazelnuts for about 20-25 minutes in a preheated oven at 190-200 degrees. The dough will brown — the baking is ready.

Let them cool a little in the molds (about 5 minutes) and you can take them out. Let the baskets cool and treat your homemade delicious pastries.

Friends, be sure to prepare these baskets for your family. I guarantee you exclamations of affection, and then a joyful purr while eating them. I also want to offer an easy recipe for home baking — prepare simple and delicious whey cookies with your children. Together you will get great pleasure from the cooking process and enjoy the result at a family tea party.