Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today I am experimenting and
making up a brand new recipe for you let's call them ... Rainbow Unicorn Apple Pies 💕
They even have custard in the centre but I'll show you that later.
To make these colourful desserts you'll need flour and butter. Melt the butter in the
microwave and pour it into the flour and mix it together. Once your mixture looks
crumbly like this use your hands to squeeze it together and knead it lightly
until it forms a ball. Split your dough into 8 portions and flatten one of them
on some plastic wrap and then add some gel food colouring and you want to knead
that into the dough and obviously I'm using the plastic wrap to stop the
colouring from going all over my fingers and the counter. Colour the rest of your
dough in the same way with whatever colors you like ... the purple food colour
turned out gross it looks grey so I think I'll leave that one out. Take a
square of puff pastry and then cut that in half to make two rectangles. Add a
snake of your yellow dough on a diagonal and then add your other colors alongside
so that you have stripes of colour. Now take the other piece of puff pastry and
place it on the top and seal all around the edges and you want to try and avoid
any big air pockets so make sure it's sitting flat. Use your rolling pin to
roll out the rectangle lengthwise you only want to roll in this one direction
you don't want to make it wider just longer. Trim off one edge to make it
straight and then start to roll it in. Now it should really be on quite a
definite angle you're not rolling it straight, you want to make it even longer
so you end up with this crazy long snake of pastry. Take your rolling pin and
again roll it out lengthwise just to flatten it and now it should be getting
really really long it's a bit hard to film and then rub some water on top and
roll that up so that you end up with a coil like this. Carefully cut it in half
using a sharp knife and how amazing do those colours look? I love it 💕
Now you can vary how it looks by varying how you arrange your coloured dough.
So let's try a double rainbow on this one ... "Double rainbow!"
Do you remember that double rainbow video? Roll that up and then cut it open...
Now you can wrap those discs in plastic wrap until you're ready to use them.
For the custard filling you need egg yolks, sugar, milk, vanilla, cornstarch and butter.
Add the sugar to the yolks and whisk that together and then add in the
cornstarch as well and whisk it in. Then add the rest of your ingredients and mix
those together too ... the reason why we mix the cornstarch the sugar and the egg
yolks together first and didn't just dump it all in together
is that way you make sure you don't get any lumps of cornflour, it's all evenly
mixed through. Heat that over high heat and stir it the whole time don't walk
away and continue to stir until the mixture bubbles and boils and keep
stirring that for another 30 seconds or so then take it off the heat to cool.
Peel your apples, I always like to try and peel it in one long squiggly piece
of skin ... you don't really need to but it's fun to try 😜 Using a knife make four
cuts around the core and then push the core out of the apple. Pipe the custard
that we just made inside and then take one of your disks of pastry, add a little
flour underneath and on top and roll it out towards the edges so that you make a
nice colourful circle of pastry. Take that and place it over your 🍎and wrap it
around tucking it underneath just bringing those edges together and
squeezing them to seal that apple and custard inside. Repeat that with another
one ... now the coloured dough that we made will give you enough to do about eight
of these apples so if you don't need to do that many you could
always freeze the extra dough just make the disks and freeze them for later
depending how many people you're serving. They look so good when you roll them out
and wrap that one around the apple too. Now if you prefer you can leave the skin
on your Apple that will make it a little bit healthier because you get the fibre
from the skin too and these make a completely contained apple pie really ...
you've got the pastry and the apple and your custard all in the middle. And then
you just need to bake those in the oven and while they're baking I want to give
a special shout out to India who has one of my How To Cook That hoodies and she
also made the giant Magnum for her birthday party ... happy 16th India, I
hope you had a great time. They're looking good now the pastry is looking like it's
cooked so take those out of the oven. What a cute looking dessert and they
smell so good too! Let's have a look what they look like on the inside ...
YUM!! Look at that custard and the apple and the flaky pastry perfect 😍 Click here
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