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Ingredients Jump to Instructions ↓

  1. 2/3 cup ground hazelnuts (or almonds )

  2. cup sugar

  3. 3 tbsp unsalted butter , cut into pieces

  4. 1 tbsp hazelnut liqueur or brandy

  5. 4 macintosh apples , peeled and cored

  6. 1-2 sheets frozen puff pastry , thawed but chilled

  7. 1 egg , whisked with

  8. 2 tbsp water, for brushing

  9. Turbinado sugar , for sprinkling

  10. 1 cup half-and-half cream

  11. 3 green cardamom pods, lightly crushed

  12. 1 tsp vanilla extract

  13. 2 large egg yolks

  14. 2 tbsp sugar

Instructions Jump to Ingredients ↑

  1. Preheat oven to 400 °F and lightly butter a baking dish.

  2. In a food processor, pulse ground hazelnuts and sugar. Add butter while pulsing, then add liqueur and vanilla, pulsing until a paste is formed. Stuff center of each apple with hazelnut mixture. Cut puff pastry into long strips, 1-inch wide. Starting at base of each apple, wrap apple with pastry so that pastry overlaps just slight as it spirals around the apple. Brush pastry with eggwash, sprinkle with Turbinado sugar and place in prepared dish. Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce oven temperature to 375 °F and bake for about another 15 minutes, until pastry is a rich golden brown.

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