Prepare the apples

• Bring a saucepan of water with the lemon juice to a gentle simmer.
• Slice the apples very thinly and blanch them briefly until pliable.
• Drain well and pat dry.

Cut and fill the pastry

• Roll out the puff pastry and cut it into strips.
• Brush the strips with melted butter and spread with apricot jam.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon and overlap the apple slices along the top edge.

Shape the roses

• Fold the bottom half of each strip up over the apples.
• Roll the strip up tightly to form a rose.
• Place each rose in a muffin pan cavity.

Bake

• Bake in a preheated oven at 190 °C until golden and crisp.

Finish

• Let the pastries cool slightly in the pan.
• Dust with powdered sugar before serving.