Who doesn’t love a good Apple Turnover? As you will see, making them at home is not all that difficult and way better than you could ever buy.

Apple Turnovers using Phyllo Dough

5 from 1 vote
Recipe by riehlfood.com Difficulty: Intermediate
Servings

8

servings
Prep time

30

minutes
Cooking time

20

minutes

Ingredients

  • Apple filling Ingredients
  • 5 medium apples (I usually use granny smith) diced, quite small

  • 2 T butter

  • 1/3 cup cup sugar (depending how tart your apples are)

  • 1 t vanilla extract

  • 1 T cornstarch

  • 2 t cinnamon, or to taste

  • You will also need
  • 1/2 pack of phyllo sheets

  • 1/2 stick of butter (more or less), melted

  • Cream Cheese Glaze
  • 3 ounces cream cheese, softened

  • 2 tablespoons milk

  • 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla extract

  • 1 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar

Directions

  • Peel and dice apples.
  • In a medium saucepan, add butter, apples, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and cornstarch. Heat on med-low stirring every so often. Cook for 20 minutes or until apples soften and mixture thickens. Remove from heat. Set aside to cool.
  • Melt butter.
  • Remove phyllo dough from package and have a damp towel ready so you can keep the phyllo sheets covered as you work (they tend to dry out very quickly).
  • Use 2 pieces of phyllo per turnover (double one on top of ther other) Using a pastry brush, brush phyllo with butter. Fold in half (vertical) and brush again with butter.
  • Place 2 tablespoons of apple filling on the left corner of the phyllo. Fold into a triangle. Keep folding the dough over itself to form a triangle until you get to the end of the sheets. Place seam-side down on parchment paper.
  • Brush the outside of the triangle phyllo turnover with extra butter.
  • Bake in preheated oven at 375°F for 15 minutes or until nicely golden brown.
  • Cream Cheese Glaze
  • While the turnovers are baking, make the glaze. In a medium bowl, whisk together cream cheese, 1 tablespoon milk and vanilla. Slowly whisk in powdered sugar, whisking in between each addition until smooth. If glaze is too thick for your liking, add a touch more milk.
  • Transfer glaze to a resealable plastic baggie and cut the corner off. Drizzle glaze over turnovers.

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4 Comments

  • Anonymous

    Perfect! Mine weren’t pretty as in the photo, because I wanted a lot more filling in each, and just made big oblongs. So very good! Better than any I’ve ever made. Thanks for all the hints… fortunately I followed them and learned why they were there. Definitely recommended!

  • Deborah Lariscy (debbie)

    Sorry, part of instructions left me clueless. #5 doesn’t say cut the phyllo in smaller pieces, and it can’t be one long piece, so please advise. Probably intuitive, but I’m a lightweight when baking. thanks !

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