Cinnamon Apple Cream Cheese Turnovers

Apple Shaped Poetry

Cinnamon Apple Cream Cheese Puff Pastry, a bakery item you can make in your own kitchen using puff pasty sheets. To add a more complex flavor use Saigon cinnamon and two different kinds of your favorite baking apples. 
The recipe was adapted from a BHG Special Publication Fall Recipes.  It can be found in grocery stores and large bookstores. The recipe makes 9- 3 inch turnovers.

Cooking Tip: To reheat and crisp later bake at 400 degrees for 2 minutes.  
Ingredients:

• 2 TB. butter
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 3 cups peeled, cored, and chopped Jazz, Granny Smith, or Jonagold apples
• 1 tsp. Saigon cinnamon
• 5 ounces cream cheese, softened and divided
• 2 TB. flour
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 tsp. almond extract 
• Milk as needed

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone pad.For filling, in a large skillet heat butter and brown sugar over medium heat until butter melts. Add apples, cinnamon and 1/4 cup water. Mix and cover, cook 5 minutes. Uncover and cook 8 to 10 minutes more or just until apples are tender, stirring occasionally. Remove and cool slightly. Stir in 4 oz. of the cream cheese, the flour, and egg yolk; mix well.
• On a lightly floured surface, unfold and roll out slightly pastry sheet to a 10 inch square. Cut into nine 3-1/3 inch squares. Spoon a rounded tablespoon of the filling into the center of each square. Brush edges of pastry squares with water. Fold each pastry in half to form a triangle. Seal edges with the tines of a fork. In a small bowl combine the beaten egg and 1 TB.. water. Brush half of the egg mixture over pastries. Arrange on a prepared baking sheet. 

• Bake 14-15-minutes or until puffed and golden. Remove; cool on wire rack placed over waxed paper.
• In a medium bowl beat the remaining 1 oz. cream cheese with a mixer on medium until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar, extract and enough milk, 1 tablespoon  at a time, to reach a thick drizzling consistency. 
• Drizzle icing over the turnovers. Serve warm or let cool.