Kat's Diet Kitchen: Apple Roses

These low syn treats are perfect when you have a little time and want to make something different. They are slightly fiddly but don’t let that put you off, they’re worth it. Just take your time and the end product always impresses.

I tried these a few ways with cutting the wraps differently and apple positions – I really did have a play with different ideas and this way was by far the best.

The ingredients below will make 12 roses which is one pack of wraps, don’t worry that I only have nine in my photo – that was throwing them away with trial and error roses! You can make less if you’d prefer, just reduce the quantity evenly

The syn value is dependent on whether or not you’ve had your HEB. Let’s say a portion is two roses, that’s one wrap. The other syn values (jam and apple) are so small that I will just round up and say if you have NOT had your HEB they are 1/2 syn per rose. If you HAVE HAD your HEB they are 7 syns per two roses but to be clear I put my any syn listing below to protect your own losses.

Ingredients

6 Weight Watchers wraps (1 wrap is a HEB or 6 syns - bear in mind you don't use the top and bottom but I counted it anyway)

4 red apples (0.5 syns per cooked 28g)

Lemon juice

1 tablespoon apricot jam (1 syn per teaspoon)

1 egg

Mixed spice (optional)

Icing sugar to dust (optional)

Frylite

Method

Pre heat oven to 200 degrees or Gas mark 7

Spray bun tin with frylight – you must do this or the apple roses will stick

¾ fill a bowl with cold water and add a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice (fresh or in a bottle)

This will stop your apple slices going brown as you’re working on them

Core and finely slice the apples, this was the thickness I went with:

As you finish slicing every apple half put the slices I the lemon water mix until you’re ready to deal with them

Cut your wraps. I cut two strips from each wrap that would make two roses per wrap. I tried with one strip but it was too thick to work. So you and see this is the difference between one and two strips per wrap:

The extra bits I saved and used to make pitta crisps, I made SW hummus to go with the crisps so nothing was wasted. The recipe's are here: pita chips recipe and hummus recipe

Now you’re ready to make the flowers

In a small bowl combine 1 tablespoon apricot jam with 2 tablespoons of water and heat in the microwave for 1 minute (I used the 600 watt heat setting on mine for this). Give it a stir so it all mixes in, this is for sweetness plus will make your roses stick

Take a handful of apple slices and some water and microwave for a minute. I found that doing this in small batches worked best. You need the apples to be soft so they are pliable – in other words you need them to bend when you roll them into your rose. If you do this in small batches it means you can control the smaller cooking times. I microwaved these for a minute also and just put thenext handful of apples into the same water/bowl for the next rose – so I was making one rose and the apples were cooking in the microwave for the next one.

Using a brush, cover the bottom 1/3 t0 ½ of your wrap with the watered down apricot jam mix

Line your apple slices across the top of the wrap, I tried the other way but it doesn’t make a rose (!!!) so you need to lay them this way in arches that overlap like I do here:

If you want to add mixed spice this is the time for a light dusting of it on the apple

Fold the wrap up to cover the bottom of the apples

Now roll your wrap, be gentle but firm with it. If any apple slices try to escape just push them back down. This is when you’ll be glad you cooked the apples as they will bend with the wrap. When you’re done put the wrap in the bun tray and make sure the apple slices are all visible. You can always add a couple if any have slipped