March 21, 2013 - 5:49am
Looking for a French Pastry recipe called APPLE NESTS
Hi,
A customer has challenged me to figure out how to make Apple Nests. They used to buy them at a bakery called DiCamillo bakery in Niagara Falls, NY. I have googled and emailed and no response.
My customer describes them as a flakey type yeasted dough with apple caramelized in them and on top. She described them almost as a cinnamon roll structure but no cinnamon, just caramelized apple.
Has anyone had one of these and/or familiar with them.
I made some pain au lait dough and they were ok but more doughy than flakey. I made some puff and tried it more as a puff snail but that didn't have height.
Suggestions?
Thanks, Joanne
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This is all I can think of, probably wrong but worth a look.
http://www.athensfoods.com/products/consumerproduct.aspx?id=3
Cheers,
Wingnut
I'm sorry, Joanne, I've never heard of these myself either. What you describe makes me think of pain aux raisins with a caramelized apple filling instead of raisins. If you use a croissant dough or a laminated brioche dough, perhaps that would fit for "flakey type yeasted dough" and give you a bit more lift compared to puff?
What this should be is a puff pastry cut into a square. Sautee sliced apples in butter with cinnamon and when partly done place them in the center and then do a bringing up of the edges to make a free form apple tart like thing and bake this off and it is nested apples in a puff pastry.
Try searching with "pommes au nid"...,
Wild-Yeast
Hi! My name is Katie. I know this post was back in 2013 but I am also looking for a recipe called Apple Nests. I live in Delaware, Ohio and a famous bakery/restaurant burned down along with a lot of their recipes. They were the best and I’d love to make them and surprise my little sister who also has looked and looked for this recipe. They were round somewhat flat, flaky puff like dough with apple like pie filling in the center with white icing drizzled over the top. If I could even find something similar I’d be thrilled. Please contact me at ktavens@gmail.com. Thank you so much!!
Puff pastry? https://www.freshboulangerie.co.uk/about?lightbox=dataItem-idzzs4su
Apple galette? https://onedishkitchen.com/apple-galette-recipe/