APPLE AND SULTANA PUFF PASTRY DIAMOND WITH CLOTTED CREAM

Ingredients
- 3 Bramley apples - peeled
- cored and diced
- 1 vanilla pod - split lengthways and seeds scraped out
- 50g/1¾oz butter
- pinch of cinnamon
- pinch of sugar
- 100g/3½oz sultanas
- splash of water
- 200g/7¼oz puff pastry
- egg wash
- pinch of sugar
- clotted cream
- to serve
Directions
- For the compote
- put the apples
- vanilla
- butter
- cinnamon
- sugar and water in pan and cook
- stirring often
- until ingredients turn into a purée.
- Then mix in the sultanas and set aside.
- For the diamond
- roll out the puff pastry and cut two 10cm/4in wide diamonds.
- Cut around the edges of the diamonds and fold the corners back on each other.
- Brush with egg wash
- sprinkle with sugar and bake at 180C/350F/Gas 4 until golden brown. Leave to cool.
- Slice the diamonds in half
- spoon the purée over the bottom
- add the pastry lids and serve with clotted cream.

