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Apple Blossoms

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 Hey everyone!  It’s Renee from Renee’s Kitchen Adventures back with another great recipe to share with Mandy’s Recipe Box…Apple Blossoms! Apple Blossoms are little bites of apple heaven in an easy to eat package!

 It’s really starting to feel like Fall out there now.  The days and nights are getting cooler and shorter and the leaves have just started to show some real color.  To me, Fall time means apple time!  Living in Northeast Ohio, apple orchards are plentiful and the harvest starts to show up on road side stands and in farmer’s markets all over the area.  You don’t have to go far to find a fresh apple!  With all the fresh apples everywhere, I had to pick up a bag or two! When I found this apple recipe on Allrecipes, I decided to give it a try.

If you do one thing this Fall, you need to make these super cute little apple treats!  They are so good! They are also pretty easy to make thanks to refrigerated pie crust!  I’m all for making life easier with kitchen shortcuts and refrigerated pie crust is one of the best hacks I can think of! In this recipe, fresh apples are nestled in the flaky pie crust and then topped with a crunchy topping that compliments them perfectly.

 

You can finish these cuties off with a little whipped cream, like pictured, or leave them plain.  It really doesn’t matter, they are delicious both ways!

 

Just make sure to test the sweetness of your apples before you add the brown sugar to them.  I used fresh Cortland apples that were amazingly sweet and I only needed a fraction of the sugar called for in the recipe!  Enjoy!


Apple Blossoms
 
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Mini little apple pie bundles full of sweet apples and a crunchy topping in a flaky crust!
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Serves: 18
Ingredients
  • ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar, divided
  • ⅓ cup chopped walnuts
  • ¼ cup all purpose flour
  • pinch of salt
  • 3 TBS unsalted butter
  • 1-15 oz. package of refrigerated pie crusts
  • 1 pound apples, peeled, cored and chopped
  • ½ tsp. cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. pure vanilla extract
  • whipped topping, if desired
Directions
  1. Combine 6 TBS brown sugar, walnuts, flour, and salt in a small bowl. With fingers, cut in the butter until the mixture is like coarse crumbs. Set aside.
  2. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray 18 wells of regular sized muffin pan with cooking spray.
  3. Open out pie crust and roll into a 13 inch circle on lightly floured surface. Trim edges to make a 10½ inch square. Cut into 9 equal square pieces. Repeat with other pie crust so that you have 18 small squares. Discard trimmed pieces.
  4. Press each square into the muffin wells. Set aside.
  5. In medium bowl, combine the apples with 1 - 2 TBS brown sugar (depending on sweetness of apple you may need less), cinnamon, and vanilla.
  6. Place about a ¼ cup apple mixture into each crust. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven, and sprinkle each "pie" with reserved crumb topping and return to oven for another 8 - 10 minutes.
  7. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before removing to wire rack to cool completely. Once cooled, top with whipped topping, if desired.

 

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Comments

  1. I am a crust person so I love these little bites because now I can have a little apple goodness and a little crust in each bite!

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