Coussinets Aux Pommes

Title:
Coussinets Aux Pommes

Yield:
4 Servings

Categories:
Cookies,
Cakes,
Desserts,
French




Ingredients:





   120 g  Flour


    60 g  Sugar


          Salt


          Grated lemon peel


    60 g  Hard butter


     1    Egg yolk


     4    Apples


    40 g  Icing sugar


     1 ts Cognac


    40 g  Soft butter


     1    Egg






 Heat the oven to 190oC. Mix the flour, salt, and lemon peel. Add the


 hardened butter, cut into very small pieces, and quickly mix everything


 together by hand to form a ball. Cover the ball with a cloth and leave to


 rest in a cool place (but NOT in the fridge), for 1 1/2 hours. Divide the


 pastry into 5 equal parts. Roll 4 into 15 cm squares, about 1/2 cm thick.


 With the 5th part, make 4 small rounds. Butter a baking tray. Peel and core


 the apples. Mix the icing sugar, cognac, soft butter and egg yolk, and fill


 the apples with this mixture. Place an apple on each suare of pastry, and


 fold up the corners to cover the apples. Put a round of pastry on top of


 each one. Put the apples onto the tray and brush with beaten egg. Bake in


 the center of the oven until golden (about 25 mins). Serve hot or cold.


 These may be served with whipped cream or with Marsala poured over them.


 You may improve the stuffing by adding sultanas and currants if you wish.


 


 From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini