Mother’s Day ⎜Herb Bouquets ⎜Sweet Pastries

Mother's Day - lavender bouquet

A bouquet of lavender leaves and rosemary flowers.

These precious hands {Hannah} held a sweet and simple herb bouquet for Mother’s Day.  Clay pots that were once filled with dried herbs and lavender have new purposes as containers for fresh herbs.  To see and photograph my children holding and preparing these bouquets were as much of a gift as it is to receive them.

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Mother's Day, herb bouquet

Caleb holding a bouquet of sage, chives, lemon thyme, and lemon balm.

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Mother's Day, herbs

Fresh herbs from the garden for the arrangements.

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Mother's Day, herbs

Caleb picking out the herbs and rearranging them in pots.

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Mother's Day, lily of the valley

Grace combined lily of the valley with strawberry blossoms for this pretty arrangement.

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Mother's Day, bouquets

Work in progress.

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Mother's Day bouquets

Almost done.

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Mother's Day, lily of the valley

Love this bouquet of lily of the valley, baby strawberries and strawberry blossoms.

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Mother's Day bouquets

Beautiful Mother’s Day gifts.

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Mother's Day, bouquets

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Mother's Day gifts & treats

Homemade pastries such as these Puff Pastry Apple Tartlets or special store bought pastries {Mom’s favorite} would be wonderful to enjoy together for a light breakfast or as late afternoon snacks.

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Mother's Day, Pastries

{print recipe, here}

makes 4 tartlets

Ingredients

1   sheet of ready-made puff pastry, thawed
2   small/medium size Granny Smith apples, peeled, cut in half and cored
2   tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
8  teaspoons sugar
turbinado sugar {sugar in the raw} for sprinkling
powder suger for sprinkling before serving

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400˚ F

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Mother's Day, pastries

1.  Cut puff pastry sheet into 4 equal pieces and transfer them onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

2.  With a fork, prick the dough around the perimeter about a half inch in from the edges to make a rectangle borders.  Randomly prick more holes with the fork inside the rectangle area.  This will prevent the center area from rising up during baking.  Repeat this step with the other 3 puff pastry sheets.  Put the baking sheet in the refrigerate to keep the dough cold while preparing the apples.

3.  Take one half of an apple and cut it into thin slices.  Keep the sliced pieces together, set aside.  Repeat this step with the other apple halves.

4.  Take the chilled dough out from the refrigerator and carefully place one of the sliced halves in the center of a pastry sheet, fan the slices out to fill the pricked area of the dough.  Repeat this step with the other apple halves.

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Mother's Day, pastries

5.  Top the apple slices with butter pieces and sugar equally.  Lastly, sprinkle raw sugar over each tartlet for texture.

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Mother's Day, pastries

6.  Bake until apples are tender and pastry is golden, about 20-25 minutes.

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Mother's Day, bouquets & pastries

To make them extra sweet and pretty, sprinkle powder sugar {not shown} generously over the pastry before serving.

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Mother's Day, lily of the valley

Happy Mother’s Day!

{print Puff Pastry Apple Tartlets recipe, here}

 


posted by Kay

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4 Responses to Mother’s Day ⎜Herb Bouquets ⎜Sweet Pastries

  1. Becky May 9, 2015 at 7:07 pm #

    HI Kay,
    What sweet gifts! And I adore the photos! Happy Mother’s Day to you!!
    Hope it’s wonderful!
    xo
    Becky

    • Kay May 9, 2015 at 9:58 pm #

      I’m glad you enjoyed the blog post Becky and Happy Mother’s Day to you too!

  2. Lori @ A Bright and Beautiful Life May 14, 2015 at 12:37 pm #

    Hi Kay, I’m way behind on my blog reading! 🙂 I’m eager to make those apple pastries. I’m going to the store today to buy the ingredients so I can make some this weekend. They look delicious. And your little planters of flowers and herbs are darling and your photos are beautiful!!!

    • Kay May 17, 2015 at 9:32 am #

      Lori, I feel like I’m constantly behind on so many things… My kids are counting down the days till school gets out for the “SUMMER”. I haven’t put my winter clothes away yet!

      I hope you like the little apple tartlets.

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