Thursday, January 18, 2018

This isn't cake! But it is quick to make!

On an evening after a large snowfall, I thought I would make my mother a french apple pie.  She didn't like that idea, so I surprised her with a few tiny mini bites.

Ingredients

Puff Pastry
Green Apples
Fuji Apples
Golden Delicious Apples
Lemon juice
Cinnamon
Sugar
Nutmeg (Connecticut State used to pass fake nutmegs around as currency of sorts)
Dash of clove, and I mean a dash.


I shaved the apples.  Literally.  Removed the skins, and rather than slice the apples I continued to use the peeler to peel the apples.  Placed them in a bowl with sugar and lemon juice to keep and marinate while we ate dinner.  Then placed them on the stove with about a scoop more of sugar.  Mother had thrown away her cinnamon spice because it was in a square container and she had just ordered a spice rack which only held round bottles.  She didn't like the cinnamon and sugar mixture I made into a round bottle, so I threw it away.  Therefore, there was NO cinnamon in the spice area.  Ah but a stick or two of decorative cinnamon I know had been there before Sian was born... I microplaned it as much as possible. No nutmeg, and no clove, so it was rather boring.

Placed the puff pastry in miniature muffin tins.  Scooped a bit of apple mixture into puff pastry and et viola! 

bake about 400 F until brown about 20 minutes