If you love apple crumble you'll love these vegan apple crumble Danish pastries. These easy pastries can be baked in the air fryer or oven.

Pastry in the air fryer? Yep!

At this point I'm throwing nearly everything in the air fryer to cook and today I'm sharing my latest easy air fryer recipe, vegan apple crumble Danish pastries.

A cheats danish pastry recipe, that makes the most delicious lunch box snack or afternoon treat with a cuppa.

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💭 What is a Danish pastry?
👩🏻‍🍳 Cheats Danish pastries
💭 Which Pastry?
💭 Is puff pastry vegan?
♨️ Baking puff pastry in the air fryer
🍏 Apples or apple sauce?
🥧 Is apple crumble the same as apple crisp?
🥣 Apple crumble topping
🥄 Adding oats
📋 What you need to make Vegan Apple Danish Pastries
📖 Variations
👩🏻‍🍳 Storing homemade Danish pastries
🧾 More pastry swirl recipes
🧾 More vegan apple recipes
👩🏻‍🍳 How to make Vegan Apple Danish Pastries
📖 Recipe
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💭 What is a Danish pastry?

A Danish pastry is a lamenated layered sweet pastry.

Brought to Denmark by Austrian bakers during strikes in the 1850s, then tweaked to suit the Danish palate, they are still popular in Denmark and across the world.

👩🏻‍🍳 Cheats Danish pastries

Danish pastries are made with yeast leavened dough and are quite labour intensive to make.

These cheats Danish pastries are made with ready made pastry and still have the crumbly layers, but are much quicker to make.

They are still totally luxurious and delicious.

💭 Which Pastry?

These vegan apple Danish are made with puff pastry.

You can use a block of puff pastry and roll it yourself or use ready-rolled puff pastry.

Of course, the ready rolled is much easier to use, but it's up to you which you use.

💭 Is puff pastry vegan?

Most puff pastry is suitable for vegans.

They are one of those porducts that are accidentally vegan as it's cheaper for the brands to use a margarine to make them instead of butter.

Just watch out for any that have butter in the name, as they won't be suitable for vegans.

♨️ Baking puff pastry in the air fryer

Puff pastry is usually baked in the oven, but it can be baked in the air fryer too.

I don't think you get quite the same rise in the pastry, but it's still good.

The secret is to preheat the air fryer for a few minutes before you add your pastry.

🍏 Apples or apple sauce?

I make these apple pie Danish with apple sauce.

You can use shop-bought apple sauce or make your own homemade apple sauce.

Alternatively, you could add slices of apple in these apple pie pastries, as well as or instead of the apple sauce.

Just make sure your cut them into thin slices as you have to be able to roll them in the pastry.

Love an apple pastry? Try these mini apple pies made with shortcrust pastry.

🥧 Is apple crumble the same as apple crisp?

Crumble and crisp are pretty much the same thing.

A fruit filling with a crumbly, buttery, sugar topping.

🥣 Apple crumble topping

The vegan crumble topping is added as a filling in these apple crumble pies.

It gives that wonderful buttery toffee flavour that a crumble topping has.

Which works wonderfully with the apple filling.

🥄 Adding oats

Scottish apple crumble, in fact any Scottish fruit crumble usually include oats in the crumble topping.

Oats is one of our core crops, so we add it into so many dishes and bakes.

I've included oats into the crumble topping that's added into these apple crumble pies.

📋 What you need to make Vegan Apple Danish Pastries

Here are the simple ingredients you need to make these super simple apple swirls.

Puff pastry - homemade, block or ready rolled
Apple sauce - homemade or shop-bought
Plain flour - all purpose flour
Oats - porridge oats or rolled oats
Brown sugar - or demerara sugar
Cinnamon
Vegan butter - or dairy-free spread
Salt - just a pinch
Icing sugar - confectioner's sugar (for the drizzle)
Water

See the printable recipe card below for the full ingredient list, method, notes and calories.

📖 Variations

Here are a few ideas to tweak this easy apple crumble recipe.

Walnuts - chopped finely and added to the crumble mix
Apple slices - use a potato peeler to peel thin slices of apple to add to the Danish pasties
Toffee sauce - add a layer of dairy-free toffee sauce
Cherries - use cherry pie filling instead of apple sauce

For another quick air fryer sweet treat, try these air fryer biscoff cookies, that are made from start to finish in 10 minutes and makes just 2 or 3 delicious cookies.

Another breakfast idea for you to try is vegan overnight Weetabix with yoghurt.

👩🏻‍🍳 Storing homemade Danish pastries

Once cool, you can keep these homemade Danish pastries in an airtight container for a few days.

They won't be as crisp after the first day, but still an utterly delicious treat for breakfast or a snack with coffee.

🧾 More pastry swirl recipes

Here are a few more vegan savoury and sweet pastry swirls for you to try after you make these apple danish pies.

🧾 More vegan apple recipes

And now a few more tasty vegan apple recipes.

👩🏻‍🍳 How to make Vegan Apple Danish Pastries

Step-by-step photos. Keep scrolling for the full printable recipe (with full ingredient list, calories and nutritional info).

Step 1

First made the crumble filling.
Add flour, oats and brown sugar to a mixing bowl and mix until well combined.

Step 2

Add cinnamon and a pinch of salt and mix in.
Now add vegan spread or cubes of vegan butter and mix in with your finger tips, by rubbing it in until it looks a bit like breadcrumbs.

Step 3

Unroll your ready rolled puff pastry, or roll out a block of puff pastry into a rectangle.
Spread apple sauce across the pastry leaving a border free at the top and bottom.
Sprinkle the crumble across the apple sauce, the roll the pastry on the long side.
Rub a little water along the top border to help it stick as you finish rolling.

Step 4

Cut the pastry roll into slices and place on non-stick baking paper, leaving space between the swirls.
Sprinkle the tops with some brown sugar.
Bake in a preheated air fryer or oven and bake until golden.

Step 5

Leave the swirls to cool then make the icing.
Mix icing sugar (confectioners sugar) with a little water until you have a thick icing that can be drizzled.
You will need a lot less water tha you think, keep working it.
Drizzle over the Danish pastries.
Enjoy!

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