Apple Season

I have 2 kinds of apple trees in my backyard. One is some kind of baking apple. It's also good to eat, but they're really great to bake with. The other is a Red Delicious.

Any-whoo, I’m always on the lookout for great apple recipes and I’m also asked all the time what I do with those apples. Well, here’s some suggestions:

Super Easy Apple Pie

5+ apples, sliced and peeled
5 dabs of butter
Sugar
Cinnamon
Krusteaz pie crust mix

Make pie crust according to package directions. Put apples in crust followed by the butter. Cover well with sugar and cinnamon. Seal top of pie crust down. Cut slits in crust for steam to escape. Cover edges of crust with aluminum (remove during the last 15 mins of bake time). Bake @ 425*F for 40-50 minutes until brown.

Baked Apple French Toast

10-14 slices (1” thick) French bread
1 pkg. (3 oz.) cream cheese, softened
1 Lg apple, peeled, cored, sliced thin
¼ C. nuts, chopped (optional)
1 C. milk
1/3 C. maple flavored syrup
3 eggs
2T. butter or marg., melted
1 T. sugar
1 t. ground cinnamon
1 t. vanilla

Preheat over to 400*F. Spread cream cheese onto both sides of bread slices. Place bread into 9”x13” pan. Prick bread slices several times with fork or knife, top with apple slices. Sprinkle nuts over apples. Combine remaining ingredients and whisk. Pour egg mixture over bread. Bake 20-25 minutes or until egg mixture is set. Yield: 6 servings.

Baked Apples

Choose baking apples
Core apples and remove skin on upper half only (to prevent splitting)
Place upright in baking dish

Fill center of each with:
1-2 T. brown sugar
1 t. margarine
1/8 t. cinnamon

Pour water ¼” deep into pan
Bake @ 350*F for 30-40 minutes, until tender. Spoon syrup from pan over apples during baking

Please share any of your favorite recipes. I'll have a few more recipes up soon!