Elephant Ears!!

  

Ingredients:

2/3 Cup Sugar (can use 1 Cup if you prefer more sugar)

Pinch of Salt

1/4 Teaspoon Cinnamon

1 Sheet puff Pastry
(Makes approx. 2 dozen)

Directions:

Preheat Oven to 450 degrees.

Combine 1/3 Cup of Sugar and the salt and spread it on a flat surface.

Unfold one sheet of Defrosted Puff Pastry (don't let it defrost too much, or else it will be a pain to get it apart) onto the sugar Combination. Then spread the other half of Sugar with 1/4 tsp of cinnamon on top of the puff pastry evenly.

Use a rolling pin to roll the dough until the sugar is pressed into the puff pastry on both sides.

Take one side of the puff pastry and fold it to approx. halfway to the middle of the dough, then take the other side and also fold it to halfway to the center. 

Then Fold each side again toward the middle of the dough, so that both ends now meet at the center.

Then fold one half onto the other half.

Slice the dough into half inch slices. 

Place the slices, cut side up onto a baking sheet, preferably lay onto parchment paper.                    Wilton Parchment Paper.   

                                                            

Bake for about 6 minutes at 450 degrees. Then turn them over and bake for another 3 to 5 minutes.

Remove from baking sheet to cool.

Bite Sized Mini Apple Pie / Mini Apple Pie Cupcake recipe:

These are soo good, in a bite-sized portion, easy to make and worth it!! I challenge You to try it.

Ingredients:

1 Pie Dough

5 or 6 Apples

1/2 cup Sugar

1/2 cup brown Sugar

2 tsp Cinnamon

1 tsp Nutmeg

Pinch of Salt

2 tbsp Flour

2 tsp Vanilla Extract

Directions:

Wash 5 or 6 Apples (6 Apples make a little extra)...

Peel...

     

Cut into small Cubes

Mix together Sugar, Brown Sugar, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Salt, Flour, and Vanilla Extract.

Add Chopped Apples to Cinnamon Sugar Mixture.

Sprinkle Flour onto a clean surface, place half the dough on it and use a rolling pin to roll out dough. Roll it out fairly thin...

      Use a glass or anything larger than the cupcake tin circles to cut out circles from the dough...

Place the cut out circles into the cupcake tin.

Baker's Secret 116424001 Basics Nonstick 24-Cup Mini Muffin Pan

Poke holes in the bottom of each cup.

Fill each cup to the top with the apple mixture.

Using the remaining dough, cut out small stripes, about the length of the cup.

Place strips over the mini apple pies.

Place the cupcake tin in the oven and bake at 375 degrees for about 35-40 minutes.

I would advise taking them out of the tin within the first five minutes after baking, if any of the juice from the filling flowed onto the top of the tin, or elseee it will be hell to get them out if it dries and binds the tin and cupcake together.

YUMM!!!