When Apples Are in Season, I Make This Crispy Puff Pastry Dessert Every Week

One technique video for apple season: ready-made puff pastry turned into golden half-moons with a lid for a cutter. The bases get a narrow egg-wash border and a thin layer of honey; the filling is two apples cut chunky and cooked in butter with brown sugar, cinnamon, orange zest and vanilla, then thickened the bakery way — cornstarch stirred into the orange juice before it ever meets the pan, so the juice stays with the fruit. Soaked cranberries bring the tartness, the same nuts go in coarse and on top fine, the tops are pricked, sealed and glazed, and twenty minutes at 200 °C with the fan off does the rest. The promise from the first second is kept at the last: you hear the crunch.