Apple Dessert Recipes for One Person
Dessert is a course which people cooking only for one often skip, or buy in fully prepared and ready to serve straight from the supermarket carton. Desserts are often seen as being unnecessarily complicated and/or not worthy of the time spent in their preparation. While this can be true, if you are a dessert lover, it can sometimes be nice to enjoy a dessert made by your own hand, especially when wonderful fruits like apples are in season and readily available at their very best. Hopefully, you will find one or more of the following apple dessert recipes worth trying - either for one or more people.
Apple and Pineapple Turnover with Cinnamon
Cook Time
Prep time: 30 min (includes 15 min resting time)
Cook time: 30 min
Ready in: 1 hour
Yields: One apple and pineapple turnover
Ingredients
- ½ Bramley apple, peeled and roughly chopped
- Squeeze of lemon juice
- 1 pineapple ring, roughly chopped
- 3oz puff pastry
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- Beaten egg for glazing
- Vegetable oil to grease baking tray
- Custard to serve
Instructions
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- Put your oven on to preheat to 400F/200C.
- Mix the chopped apple and pineapple and squeeze over lemon juice to stop apple browning.
- Roll out the pastry just large enough on a floured board that an 8 inch plate can be used to cut a circle.
- Lay the apple and pineapple on one half of the pastry, leaving a one inch border. Scatter over the sugar and cinnamon. Lightly glaze the border with beaten egg.
- Fold over the empty half of the pastry and carefully crimp the edges.
- Lift the parcel on to a lightly greased baking tray. Glaze all over with more beaten egg and cut a steam vent in the centre.
- Bake for half an hour or until beautifully golden.
- Remove to a wire rack and rest for fifteen minutes.
- Serve with homemade or (as in this instance!) canned custard.
Chocolate and Apple Parfait on Scottish Shortbread Base
What is Parfait?
Parfait is actually one of those many words used in French cooking that has a very ill-defined meaning. Loosely speaking, it refers to a food substance which is lightly frozen/chilled without ice crystals being allowed to form and constitute ice cream. Hence the reason why this dish can be referred to as a parfait.
Sometimes, a parfait requires that the food be beaten regularly as it is chilled to prevent the formation of those ice crystals - that is not necessary in this instance.
Cook Time
Ingredients
- 3 ounces cooking chocolate, plus extra for grating, type as desired
- ½ Bramley apple, cored and finely diced
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 small shortbread finger
- 1 ginger snap biscuit/cookie or equivalent
- 1 ounce (quarter stick) unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons whipping cream, whipped to soft peaks
Instructions
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- Break the chocolate in to a large bowl. Melt carefully and gently in the bowl, suspended over a saucepan of simmering water. Be sure that the water does not touch the bowl, or the chocolate will split.
- Line a small serving dish with clingfilm/plastic wrap.
- Stir the apple in to the melted chocolate with the ginger and spoon in to the dish. Level out and refrigerate for one hour.
- Break the ginger snap and shortbread in to the centre of a clean tea towel. Wrap and bash with a rolling pin to crumble.
- Very gently, melt the butter in a saucepan. Lift from the heat before the butter is fully melted and swirl to complete melting. This prevents the butter from splitting. Add the biscuit crumble and stir well.
- Spread the biscuit and butter mix over the set chocolate and press down lightly. Don't worry about unevenness - it's supposed to be rustic. Refrigerate for a further hour.
- Gently warm the dish between your hands for a minute or so. This should allow you to carefully lift the plastic wrapped and set combination from the dish and lay it upside down on a serving plate. Peel away the clingfilm.
- Spoon on the whipped cream and garnish with the grated chocolate.
Stewed Apples with Micemeat, Sultanas and Whipped Cream
Cook Time
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Ready in: 45 min
Yields: One serving
Ingredients
- 1 Bramley apple, peeled, cored and moderately finely diced
- Juice of half a lemon
- 1 tablespoon sultanas
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon mincemeat
- 2 tablespoons whipping cream, whipped to soft peaks
- Grated chocolate to garnish
Instructions
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- Put the apple, sultanas, sugar and lemon juice in to a saucepan. Add three or four tablespoons of cold water.
- Bring to a simmer, stirring frequently, for around ten to fifteen minutes, until the apple is just softened.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the mincemeat. Cover and leave for fifteen minutes to cool slightly and for the flavours to infuse.
- Spoon in to a serving dish, top with the whipped cream and grate over the chocolate.
© 2013 Gordon Hamilton
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AUTHORWow - I didn't know that, Gypsy Willow. I thought the Bramley was one of the most widely available of all apples.
Sorry, just realized that there is a typo in my comment. It should read " sadly the Bramley Apple is unobtainable in the USA where I now live"
- AUTHOR
Thank you Rangoon House. I'm glad you like the ideas and find they may be useful.
This is such a useful suggestion of recipes because so many people live alone and might not otherwise be interested in making dessert.
- AUTHOR
Hi, Gypsy Willow. I'm sorry you don't have access to similar ingredients as before. Hope you at least have plenty of ingredients to compensate in different ways :)
I love baked and stewed apples. Sadly they are uncontainable in the USA where I now live. ;(. Granny Smiths just don't cook up the same. Great recipes.
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