Claire and Gaby Make Apple Empanadas | Dessert Person
What’s more fun than making fried empanadas? Making fried dessert empanadas with a friend! (That is, socially distanced). In this special episode of Dessert Person, Claire Saffitz and her special guest go off-script and decide to make a recipe together just for fun. Check it, and learn from the one and only Gaby Melian how to make empanadas with the prettiest twisted edge. (Link Below for Gaby’s Kitchen YouTube)
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Gaby’s Empanadas
Special Equipment:
A 4½”-diameter cookie cutter
Deep-fry thermometer
Ingredients:
2 cups lukewarm water
1/2 cups (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted, slightly cooled
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
2 tsp. kosher salt
1 tsp. sugar
6 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for surface
Video Breakdown:
0:00 Start
0:01 Intro to Apple Empanadas
00:44 Dessert Person Intro Animation
1:03 About Claire’s Apple Filling
1:48 Ingredients & Special Equipment
2:30 Making The Apple Filling
7:03 Making The Dough & Crimping
7:17 Claire & Gaby Reunite
17:00 How To Fold Empanadas
18:24 Free Zoom Link Expires
18:26 Frying!
23:57 Taste & Outro
24:49 Pucho Cameo
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Photographer: Alex Lau
Food Stylist: Sue Li
Prop Stylist: Astrid Chastka
Video Series:
Producer/Director: Vincent Cross
Camera Operator: Calvin Robertson
Sound Engineer/Music: Michael Guggino
Editor: Brooke Shuman
Animation Credits:
Character Designer/Animator: Jack Sherry
Character Rigger: Johara Dutton
Background/Prop Designer: M. Cody Wiley
Background Illustrator: Jagriti Khirwar
