20 Minute Apple Pie Turnovers are made with buttery and easy to work with crescent roll dough and a quickly sauteed apple. This recipe is perfect for breakfast, brunch, or even a fall dessert.
Apple Pie Turnovers? Yes, please! I love some pastries but do not have any good bakeries nearby!
Truthfully, working with pasty dough is not my specialty. Like at all. In fact, I have been known to easily get my hands wrapped up in dough and create horrific, horrible masses of dough that could likely break something if propelled.
That is why I stick with crescent roll dough as a base for many of my pastries such as our pumpkin cinnamon rolls. If I dared to make my pastry dough from scratch, I could almost imagine my yeast rising up so much that it took over the counters, and kitchen like a giant blob.
Sad, but true.
That is why I am a firm believer in using crescent roll dough to make pastries, and savory meals like pigs in the blanket or ham and cheese crescents.
Honestly, using crescent dough can save you TONS of time in the kitchen and you never have to worry about mixing flours, waiting for yeast to rise, and all that baking headachy stuff.
When I am in the kitchen baking or cooking I like to multitask to save time and effort. These 20 Minute Apple Pie Turnovers are all about multitasking and timing things right.
With a cook time of about 15 minutes, these apple turnovers are my kind of fall pastry. The drizzle of slightly crusty glaze takes them from good to hard to resist with just a little more effort as the pies bake.
What You’ll Need
- 1 large granny smith apple diced very small
- 1 package of crescent rolls
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon of honey
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp Cornstarch
You will also need a parchment-lined baking sheet, a small stockpot, a wooden spoon, and a knife.
Follow the recipe below to make these easy 20 Minute Apple Pie Turnovers:
20 Minute Apple Pie Turnovers
Ingredients
Icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp milk *You may need another tbsp.
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees f.
- Add you apples, butter, and spices to your stock put and stir for about 3 minutes over medium-high heat.
- Add in your cornstarch to thicken up the filling and stir well. Once, it gets thick and caramel-like remove from heat.
- Prepare your baking sheet with your 8 crescent rolls spread into triangles.
- Add a little filling to each center of these rolls, and then fold, and tuck them.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Allow apple turnovers to cool for 15 minutes before icing.
Icing
- Mix together the ingredients, and allow the icing to set for 10 minutes. This thickens it so it is not too runny when icing your apple turnovers.
- Use a fork dipped in the icing to swizzle each pastry.
- Enjoy these 20 Minute Apple Pie Turnovers with an ice cold coffee, milk, or hot coffee, and tea!
I love apple pie! Even more, I love that these only take 20 minutes to make. So easy! YUM!
OHHH I want this NOW! I am practically drooling on the computer… guess who will be making these soon! ;)
Oh wow! These look so good! And I can’t believe it only takes 20 minutes. I have to make these!
Wow, do those look GOOD! And who doesn’t have an extra 20 minutes…especially when this is the result. I’m going to have to make these!
They wouldn’t last long around my house. I love apple turnovers and these look delicious. I love how easy you’ve made the recipe.
They look fantastic. I will need to make them for breakfast soon.
Apple pie is one of my favorite desserts. I love how easy these look to make.
Oh my goodness! Your Apple Pie Turnovers have me absolutely drooling for taste. You have such great recipes all the time but this looks truly amazing. Especially this time of year with all the fresh apples!
Twenty minutes for something this delicious! Sign me up for this. Yum!
These look so delicious and easy to make. I will have to get the ingredients to make this recipe for dessert this week.
Those look amazing. I’ve been wanting to make some apple turnovers too. I’ll have to try out your recipe.
These look so good! I can’t believe hoe fast and easy it looks! I have to make these!
I absolutely adore apple turnovers but I can’t even think of when I last had one. These look delicious!
Nothing says fall like apple turnovers! Can’t wait to follow your recipe and make some of my own!
Starbucks and pastries – Yum! Apple turnovers are perfect for Fall season.
These turnovers look so tasty! I love all things baked apples!
These look delicious! They are perfect for fall (especially when paired with Starbucks!)
I’m drooling here!! Love apple pie turnovers and yours look amazing. Can’t wait to try them
These apple pie turnovers look amazingly delicious! My daghter is crazy about apple pie these days! She’ll surely love this!
Do you think thsee could be frozen for later ?
No, I do not think they would taste as good! Crescent dough is really made to be eaten right away after baking.
How much butter
One tablespoon- so sorry for the delay!
WE MADE YOUR APPLE PIE TURNOVERS LAST NIGHT WE WILL BE MAKING THEM AGAIN. SOOOO EASY BUT BETTER TO EAT…….AWESOME!!!!!
Thank you, so much! That is so nice to hear!
One recipe lists honey and one does not and neither mentions when to add honey. Could you please clarify. Thank you.
Hello Cheryl,
The honey is correct! I have just added it to the main post body, but honey is used although you can simply use light brown sugar doubled if you prefer.
These are delicious and my hubby absolutely loved them! I’m going to , next time, follow your advice to another commenter and use another tablespoon of brown sugar instead of the honey. I love honey but I think they’ll be just a tad sweeter with the brown sugar. The crescent roll is the perfect dough for these, I’ve always loved it that way but with this recipe and the way the apple filling is made it’s just a wonderful thing. The icing and the amount of time these take to make just top it off. These will be my go to always! Thanks for the recipe
Your instructions don’t mention the sugar/honey in terms is when to add. I also added a squeeze of lemon and that really upped the flavor.