While fruity or savory hand pies and turnovers seem interchangeable there are a few key style and prep differences between the two delicious portable pastries.

Snacks: This year for Epiphany, we wanted to make individual epiphany cakes. With our puff pastry, we made our frangipane cake look like apple turnovers :-) And we replaced the almond cream with ...

Slice apples. Tip: Use an affordable apple slicer/corer to make slicing apples fast and easy. Add apple slices to the saltwater mixture. Let soak for 5 minutes. Saltwater will prevent apple slices ...

“Basically, apple slices are a way for the bakery to make money instead of making individual pies.” According to Bielinski, the heyday of apple slices was in the 1950s and ’60s.

Apple slices are a nearly forgotten piece of Chicago pastry history The dessert was popular in the 1950s and 1960s and supposedly a favorite of Mayor Richard J. Daley.