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
Servings
8
servingsPrep time
30
minutesCooking time
20
minutesIngredients
- 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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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!
Glad you liked them. I try and make them a couple times a year! t
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 !
Actually it is just one piece of phylo dough. It gets folded lengthwise twice before adding the apple filling. Then gets folded like a flag. Heres a video I found that’s pretty close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X9UJHXtK1w