Baked Apple Empanadas

  4.3 – 3 reviews  • Apple Dessert Recipes

This recipe for peach cobbler is delicious, simple, and a favorite with our eight-person family. Up to 5 cups of peaches may be used.

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Additional Time: 8 hrs 30 mins
Total Time: 9 hrs 25 mins
Servings: 10
Yield: 10 empanadas

Ingredients

  1. 1 cup butter
  2. 6 ounces cream cheese, softened
  3. 2 cups all-purpose flour
  4. 4 small apples – peeled, cored, and cut into small cubes
  5. ½ cup white sugar
  6. ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  7. 1 pinch salt

Instructions

  1. Mix butter and cream cheese together in a bowl. Stir in flour until dough comes together and forms into a ball. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate 8 hours to overnight.
  2. Combine apples, sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cover; cook, stirring frequently, until apples are the consistency of chunky applesauce, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
  3. Remove dough from the refrigerator and let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes.
  4. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  5. Divide dough into 10 pieces and roll into balls. Roll out each ball into a 3- to 4-inch circle with a rolling pin. Fill one side of the circle with apple filling. Moisten edges lightly with water. Fold dough over the filling and press edges together to seal.
  6. Arrange empanadas on the prepared baking sheet.
  7. Bake in the preheated oven until dough is golden, about 15 minutes.
  8. The number of empanadas you get depends upon how thick you roll them out and how thin you stretch them over the filling.
  9. Baking time depends on your oven and altitude.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 374 kcal
Carbohydrate 36 g
Cholesterol 68 mg
Dietary Fiber 2 g
Protein 4 g
Saturated Fat 15 g
Sodium 198 mg
Sugars 15 g
Fat 25 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Fernando Best
These turned out perfectly! I thought the dough was a little weird — kind of sticky. I thought I measured the butter wrong or something. I did add a tiny bit of baking soda and a pinch of salt to the flour. But — as you roll it out on a floured surface, it’s so soft and easy to work with. I filled some with the apple filling and some with pumpkin pie filling. The dough is so light and melts in your mouth!! I’m going to have fun using this as a base dough and see how many fillings I can come up with. Thanks!!
Eric Miller
They’re pretty good! I reccomend another apple though. I ran out of filling!
Cory Hall
Apples never reached an applesauce consistency. Good thing I diced them small. They were tasty but not enough filling. Thank you for the recipe.

 

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