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Apple & Blueberry Danishes

These delicious fruit pastries are a must for your next brunch

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,586 recipes mention both. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the demerara sugar, allspice, cinnamon and diced apples, and cook for about 5 minutes until the apples soften slightly. Set aside to cool.

  3. Lightly dust a work surface with a little plain flour. Roll out the puff pastry on it, then cut it into eight rectangles.

  4. Place the pastry rectangles on the lined baking sheet, leaving some space between them.

  5. Spoon the cooled apple mixture onto the centre of each pastry, leaving a border around the edges.

  6. Scatter the blueberries over the apple filling.

  7. Brush the pastry borders with the beaten egg.

  8. Bake for about 20 minutes until puffed and deep golden. Cool briefly on the tray before serving.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Apple + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Allspice + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Cinnamon + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16,954 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + appletop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,692 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, apple, cinnamon, flour, egg):

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Cardamombetter flavor fit
  3. Clovebetter flavor fit
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, apple, cinnamon, flour, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).