Friday, November 11, 2011 (11/11/11)
Even though its only Friday, I decided to do some baking. I was off of work so I had lots of time on my hands. A friend recently told me about a website called Pinterest.com, which is a site for people to share pictures and links - everything from clothes, shoes, recipes, home decor ideas, quotes, anything you can really think of. It's AWESOME and it's my obsession of the moment- I'm on the website at least twice a day!
Anyways, I have found some amazing looking recipes on the website and I cannot wait to try them. I think this may be just the first of many baking sessions this weekend. Tonight I wanted to try a recipe for bite size apple pies - I figured it went with my apple theme lately. The recipe looked really simple and so cute!
The only ingredients are apples, a frozen pie crust, sugar, cinnamon and butter - all things I happen to have at home except for the apples! I started by rolling out and preparing the pie crust (which I defrosted in the fridge before hand). Next, I melted some butter and mixed together the cinnamon and sugar - some of the butter gets brushed over the dough and then some of the cinnamon sugar gets sprinkled over the top of that. The dough is then cut into long strips and ready for the apples to be placed in them.
The apples just get peeled and cut into wedges and they are ready. I put 2 wedges in each strip of dough and rolled it up. Before these go into the oven, I brushed a little more butter and sprinkled a little more cinnamon sugar over the top.
These only bake for about 15 minutes until the dough is nice and golden brown. I was concerned because I wasn't sure that the apples were cooked through but when I tried a piece of one, they were perfect - it actually tasted like apple pie! The recommendation is to serve these warm with vanilla ice cream so I'll have to try that when I serve it to my Dad later :)
Stay tuned for next time… probably sooner rather than later!
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