Baked Apple Croissant (Starbucks Copycat)
Skip the coffee shop line and bake these copycat Starbucks Baked Apple Croissants at home. Flaky layers of puff pastry wrap around a spiced apple filling for a homemade version that’s just as delicious (if not better)!
Servings: 12 croissants
Ingredients
- 4 apples Cosmic crisp or Honeycrisp
- 3 tbsp unsalted butter
- ⅓ cup pure maple syrup
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ⅛ tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 sheets puff pastry dough
- 1 egg or milk to brush on top of pastries
- coarse brown sugar optional to sprinkle on top of pastries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 °F (200 °C). Grease a 12-cup muffin pan and set aside. Peel, core, and finely dice the apples.
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Once melted, add the chopped apples, maple syrup, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir until fully coated. Cook the apples, stirring often, until softened, about 10 minutes.
- In a small bowl, stir together the cornstarch and 1 tablespoon of cold water until smooth. Pour this cornstarch mixture into the apples, stir, and cook until thickened. Remove from the heat to cool.
- Unroll each sheet of puff pastry and slice it into 6 equal rectangles to form 12 rectangles total. Press each rectangle into a muffin cup.
- Spoon about 2 tablespoons of the cooled apple filling into each pastry cup. Fold the corners inward and pinch them together to slightly close.
- Brush the top of each pastry with the whisked egg (or milk) and sprinkle with coarse brown sugar, if desired.
- Bake the croissants for 20–25 minutes or until golden. Allow to cool briefly in the muffin pan before serving.
Notes
- Make sure that your pastry dough is thawed, but not too soft. If it is too soft, it will be difficult to work with.
- Let the apple filling cool completely before assembling to keep the pastry from getting soggy.
- Make sure to grease your muffin pan beforehand to ensure that the pastries do not stick.
- Don't overfill the pastries so that too much filling doesn't ooze out when baking. If you have extra filling, save it to top yogurt, oatmeal, or waffles!
Nutrition
Calories: 188kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 21mg | Sodium: 58mg | Potassium: 83mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 133IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg
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