Apple, Goat Cheese, and Wildflower Honey Tartlets
 
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Recipe type: Appetizer/Dessert
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 2 17.3-ounce packages frozen puff pastry (4 sheets), thawed
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 6 ounces soft fresh goat cheese (about ¾ cup packed)
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • ¼ teaspoon coarse kosher salt
  • 1 large Gala apple, quartered, cored, and cut into ⅛-inch-thick slices (the original recipe called for three apples but I found that one was more than enough)
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • ¾ cup wildflower honey, divided (if you can't find wildflower honey, regular honey is fine)
  • ½ teaspoon ground allspice (if you don't have allspice, mix equal parts cinnamon, nutmeg, clove and black pepper)
Instructions
  1. Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
  2. Roll out each puff pastry sheet onto a lightly floured surface to an 11-inch square. Using a 5-inch-diameter cookie cutter, bowl or glass, cut out 4 rounds from each pastry sheet, forming 16 rounds total. Don't worry if your cutting apparatus does not have a 5-inch diameter. I just estimated and it worked out fine.
  3. Divide 8 of the pastry rounds between the two prepared baking sheets; pierce rounds all over with fork. Using a 3½-inch-diameter cookie cutter, bowl or glass, cut out smaller rounds from the center of the remaining 8 rounds (reserve 3½-inch rounds for another use), forming eight 5-inch-diameter rings. Brush outer 1-inch edges of 5-inch rounds on baking sheets with beaten egg; top each with one pastry ring. **I was really intimidated by this part. I've never made tartlets from puff pastry, I've never cut puff pastry, and I've never made a pastry ring and tried to attach it to a circle of puff pastry. But all I needed was two different sized glasses, and I was good to go. You push down the glass and voila - you have a pastry round!
  4. Freeze the pastry for at least 30 minutes.
  5. Preheat oven to 375°F. Mix cheese, lemon juice, and salt in bowl; spread mixture inside rings on frozen pastry rounds. Overlap apple slices atop cheese.
  6. Mix butter and ¼ cup honey in small bowl; brush over apples. Sprinkle with allspice.
  7. Bake until apples are tender and pastry is golden, about 35 minutes. Place tartlets on plates. Drizzle one tablespoon honey over each tartlet and serve warm or at room temperature.
  8. DO AHEAD: Bake the tartlets four to six hours ahead, then store them uncovered at room temperature. Rewarm in a 350°F oven for five to ten minutes. Drizzle tartlets with honey just before serving.
  9. NOTE: Though I made these tartlets as an appetizers, they would work just as well as a dessert or a sweet breakfast.
Recipe by Healthy Recipe Ecstasy at https://www.healthyrecipeecstasy.com/apple-goat-cheese-and-wildflower-honey-tartlets/