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Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents

Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents are flaky filled puff pastry treats with autumn flavors, ideal for a family breakfast.
Recipe Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents
  • Difficulty Easy
  • Preparation 10 minutes
  • Cooking 25 minutes
  • Servings for 8 people

Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents are a quick and easy recipe, ideal even for beginners in the kitchen who still want to serve a treat with autumn flavors, perfect for breakfast. Very few ingredients and just ten minutes or so of prep, and you’ll be ready to bake your Homemade Cornetti, the Italian breakfast crescents, which will delight the whole family.

To make the Apple Cinnamon Cornetti recipe we’ll use Puff Pastry, which is really handy and convenient and gives us perfectly flaky, crisp Breakfast Cornetti that are very much like croissants in flavor and texture.

We also chose to enrich these tasty Puff Pastry Apple Cornetti with a generous amount of cinnamon, a spice with a typically Christmassy flavor that makes the pairing even more interesting. To finish these Flaky Cornetti, a mix of egg and milk makes them shiny as they bake, and a sprinkling of brown sugar caramelizes into a crunchy, delicious layer.

If you’re looking for more tempting ideas for Homemade Brioches, don’t miss our unbeatable recipes: Super Quick Nutella Puff Pastry Brioches, Pistachio Brioches, Custard Cornetti, Apple Croissants and KitKat Croissants.

Now let’s turn on the oven and tie on our aprons: let’s make these flavorful, flaky Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents together!

Ingredients for 8 people

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Method

  1. To make the Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents, first wash the apple well and cut it into small dice, removing the seeds but keeping the peel. Then add a heaping tablespoon of sugar and the cinnamon to the apple. Mix well so it absorbs the flavors and set aside.
    Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents, step 1: diced apple mixed with sugar and cinnamon
  2. Unroll the puff pastry and use a pizza cutter to cut it into 8 triangles, like the spokes of a wheel. Fill each triangle at the wide end with a spoonful of the spiced apples, then brush the edges with a mixture of egg and milk to seal it and roll it up on itself.
    Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents, step 2: cutting the puff pastry into triangles
    Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents, step 2: filling the triangles with apple and rolling them up
  3. As you make them, place the crescents on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, then brush the tops with the same egg and milk mixture and sprinkle them with brown sugar.
    Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents, step 3: brushing with egg and milk and sprinkling with brown sugar
  4. Bake the Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents at 180 °C (350 °F) for 20-25 minutes, and when they are crisp and golden, let them cool for a few minutes before serving. Finally, remember to download our App with exclusive content and fewer ads!
    Super quick apple cinnamon crescents, another view

Variations and Alternatives

If you love the freshness of citrus, you can also add a few drops of lemon juice and some grated lemon zest to the diced apple. Or you can enrich the filling of the Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents with raisins, almonds or walnuts. Finally, the granulated sugar can be replaced with honey, and instead of the brown sugar on top of the pastries, you can use a seed mix for bread.

Tips

Since Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents bake so quickly, we recommend cutting the apple into small dice so it softens during baking. The recipe keeps the apple peel on to add a touch of color to the filling, so use an organic apple. Otherwise, we recommend peeling it.

Storage

Super Quick Apple Cinnamon Crescents are best eaten right away, warm and flaky. If you have leftovers, you can still store them in the fridge for 1-2 days, in an airtight container, and reheat them in the oven for about ten minutes when you’re ready to eat them.

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