...Remember that time when I promised that a new blog post would be coming out and would include an apple recipe?
Well, I actually did work on that post. I decided to make apple bundles and I took all of the pictures, gathered the recipe and was all ready to start typing up my blog entry when I remembered something. Something crucial to the post. After making a big ole' batch of apple bundles and eating all of them, I realized that I had forgotten to take pictures of the finished product. Completely embarrassed, I vowed to not post anything about the recipe in hopes that no one would remember. But then I started feeling guilty. I haven't posted in so long and I didn't even post what I said I was going to.
So today, I have decided to give you guys the recipe for apple bundles, even though I failed to take photos of the final result. You'll just have to trust me that they taste really good.
Apple bundles are extremely easy to make, yet they look like you put some effort into baking them. My mom says that she loves this recipe because it uses ingredients that are cheap and easy to keep on hand for whipping up a quick dessert for guests. I love this recipe because it features apples, cinnamon, and those cardboard tubes of Pillsbury dough. They're just so fun to pop open, right?
Well, I actually did work on that post. I decided to make apple bundles and I took all of the pictures, gathered the recipe and was all ready to start typing up my blog entry when I remembered something. Something crucial to the post. After making a big ole' batch of apple bundles and eating all of them, I realized that I had forgotten to take pictures of the finished product. Completely embarrassed, I vowed to not post anything about the recipe in hopes that no one would remember. But then I started feeling guilty. I haven't posted in so long and I didn't even post what I said I was going to.
So today, I have decided to give you guys the recipe for apple bundles, even though I failed to take photos of the final result. You'll just have to trust me that they taste really good.
Apple bundles are extremely easy to make, yet they look like you put some effort into baking them. My mom says that she loves this recipe because it uses ingredients that are cheap and easy to keep on hand for whipping up a quick dessert for guests. I love this recipe because it features apples, cinnamon, and those cardboard tubes of Pillsbury dough. They're just so fun to pop open, right?
Apple Bundles
Makes 12 servings.
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1. Gather your ingredients.
Makes 12 servings.
(Insert a picture of what you think the finished product would look like here!)
1. Gather your ingredients.
- 2 medium apples (I recommend you mix two different varieties like Granny Smiths and Gala for example)
- 1 package of refrigerated croissant dough (these are those cardboard tubes by the eggs!)
- 1 medium orange
- 1 tbsp of butter
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 1/2 tsp of cinnamon
- Though this isn't an "ingredient" you still are going to want this: a 9x13 baking dish (a glass one though! Don't use a metal one... I learned this the hard way...)
- Set your oven to 375 degrees!
- First, peel your apple using a vegetable peeler or a similar tool.
- Next, core your apple.
- Lastly, very, very, very thinly slice your naked, cored apple. I mean thinly. About half a centimeter thick for each slice. After you cut your two apples into those little slices, you're going to cut each of those slices in half.
4. Let's get zesty (and.. juicy?).
- Have you guys ever seen the commercial for salad dressing where it's this Italian man who's whipping up some kind of tasty looking food in the kitchen and all of a sudden he pours some salad dressing on it and his shirt disappears and he says, "Let's get zesty"? No? You haven't seen that? Well, my brother thought it was absolutely hilarious.
- Anyways, you're going to take your orange and zest it. Zest it real good. Now that you've used your muscles to skin that citrus (now you even got a workout in... you're welcome), set the orange zest aside in a little bowl.
- Now... get some more use out of that orange and your arm muscles! Squeeze it until you have 1/3 cup of the juice.
- Dump the juice into the bottom of your glass 9x13 baking dish.
5. Bundle up!
- This is the fun part when you get to pop open the cardboard tube of croissant dough. POP!
- Rip the dough apart at the perforations (isn't that a great word? Purr-fer-aaa- shunz) so you have even triangles of dough.
- Take four to five apple slices (depending on the thickness) and place them at the end of each strip of dough.
- Roll 'em up!
- Now that you have your bundles, place them all in the bottom of the orange juice-coated baking dish.
- Mix the 1/2 cup of sugar and the 1/2 tsp of cinnamon together into a small bowl. You know that zest you set aside? Dump that in the cinnamon-sugar bowl too!
- Mix it all together and you know you have the best of both worlds. (ha ha ha!)
- Melt the tablespoon of butter in the microwave.
- Brush the butter on top of each of your bundles and then dump a generous spoonful of the cinnamon-sugar-orange zest mixture over them as well.
- Slide your dish into the oven and bake about 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Best served hot! Don't let the pan cool completely or the bundles will cement themselves to the bottom. (I learned this the hard way as well...)
- When you're getting ready to dig in, take a little bit of the orange juice stuff from the bottom of the pan and drizzle it over your bundle. During the baking process, the orange juice sort of caramelizes a bit, and is extremely tasty!
- Your little apple bundles of joy, like a majority of dishes, are best served alongside a large scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Mmmmmm! Just writing the recipe up makes me crave them!
If you give these a try, leave a comment below! I'd love to hear how they turn out! And maybe you could include a picture of the finished dish since I apparently can't be bothered to.
I am going to try very hard to get back into blogging again. I've been completely swamped with homework lately, pulling off several almost-all-nighters to finish biology and portfolio assignments, but I've been on a few photoshoots in the last two months, so I might show you the results of some of those in upcoming posts.
Yay for motivation and ideas!
Also, today was a snow day (NO SCHOOL!) and Starbucks was having a buy-one-get-one-free-all-holiday-drink-sale, so yay for those things too!
If you give these a try, leave a comment below! I'd love to hear how they turn out! And maybe you could include a picture of the finished dish since I apparently can't be bothered to.
I am going to try very hard to get back into blogging again. I've been completely swamped with homework lately, pulling off several almost-all-nighters to finish biology and portfolio assignments, but I've been on a few photoshoots in the last two months, so I might show you the results of some of those in upcoming posts.
Yay for motivation and ideas!
Also, today was a snow day (NO SCHOOL!) and Starbucks was having a buy-one-get-one-free-all-holiday-drink-sale, so yay for those things too!