You will need:

8oz / 250 g  Flour

50 grams caster sugar

4 oz / 125 g  Un Salted butter

600 grams / 6 medium Apples

60grams Brown Sugar

40grams raisins

1 tsp Cinnamon

Half a fresh nutmeg

1 large orange

1tbsp Icing sugar

2 tbsp Honey

 

Firstly make the pastry, chop the butter into small pieces add to the flour, white sugar and rub together till they resemble fine bread crumbs. Next stir in about 2 table spoons of chilled water and mix to make a firm dough, kneed for a few minutes then wrap in cling film and leave to chill for ten minutes.

Core the apples and leave to one side. Mix the raisins, grated nutmeg, cinnamon, half the oranges zest and stuff into the apples. Drizzle with honey and bake at 350f / 175c / Gas mark 4 for 20 minutes till soft. Once baked allow to cool and peel the skins. Place in a bowl, add the brown sugar and mix and set aside for now.

Once the dough is chilled roll it out on a floured board till a couple of millimetres thick. Cut with a roughly 3 inch cookie cutter and place in lightly buttered/greased muffin/cake trays and dry bake till lightly brown.

Place the mixture into the dry baked pastries and bake for a further 10/15 minutes at 350f  / 175c / Gas mark 4 allow to cool and sprinkle with the other half of the orange zest and dust with a little icing sugar.