Baked Apples

INGREDIENTS

6 medium apples
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Dash salt
2 tablespoons Earth Balance Vegan Butter

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Core apples and peel top 1/3 of apple. Stand apples in baking pan.
2. Combine maple syrup, water, lemon juice, cinnamon and salt in small saucepan. Bring to a boil. Pour mixture over apples. Cover loosely with foil.
3. Bake 30 minutes. Remove from oven. Place 1 teaspoon butter into core of each apple. Baste apples with pan juices; cover and bake 15 minutes or until tender. Cool.
4. Serve warm or cold.

For a fun twist at Halloween or for a Bug-themed Party add gummy worms as pictured below.

Homemade Applesauce

3 - 5 pounds of apples (any kind you choose)
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
0.5 cup honey

Peel, core, and dice the apples.
Place in a large stockpot; add about 1-2 inches of water.
Boil to a boil and then simmer for 15-30 minutes.
Drain any excess liquid.
Mash the apples with a potato masher and add in the remaining ingredients to taste.

*for a smoother texture put the apples into a food processor instead of mashing by hand.

Apple Cinnamon Roll Cup Cakes

Cinnamon Roll Ingredients
2 cups Silk Vanilla Almond milk
1 tbsp (.5 oz) active dry yeast
0.33 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
4.5 cups all-purpose unbleached white flour + 2 cups all-purpose whole wheat flour, divided
2 eggs
0.25 cup Earth Balance Vegan Butter, room temperature

Directions
In a small saucepan warm almond milk to about 110 F.
In a large mixing bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in the milk.
Add salt and two cups of flour and beat for two minutes.
Beat in eggs and butter.
Stir in the remaining flour a half cup at a time, beating well after each addition.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic (about five minutes).
Place the dough in a large bowl and cover it with a towel. Set in a warm place and allow to rise for 40 minutes or until approximately doubled in volume.

Filling Ingredients
0.5 cup Earth Balance Vegan Butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
3 tbsp cinnamon
1 cup loosely chopped walnuts
3 cups finely chopped tart apples

Roll out dough into a long rectangle about 1/4” thick.
Brush with about half of the melted butter.
To make the filling, in a medium-sized bowl, mix sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, walnuts, and apples.
Spread the walnut/apple mixture evenly over the dough, leaving about an inch empty on all sides.

Roll dough over itself from back to front along the long side of the rectangle to form a log. Slice the log into 24 even pieces.Line cupcake tins with cupcake liners and place each piece of the log in a cupcake liner. If they don’t fit, fold the ends together to make a “C” shape. The pieces should come to about the top of the liners.Cover the cupcake tins and set in a warm place to rise for another 40 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 F.
Evenly distribute the remaining 0.25 cup of melted butter over the tops of the cupcakes.
Bake for 20 minutes or until the tops are golden.

Apple Cider Glaze Ingredients
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tbsp + 1 tsp apple cider

Directions
In a medium-sized bowl, mix powdered sugar and apple cider until fully combined.
Drizzle over cupcakes.


Based on the recipe found HERE.

Ingredient List Recap:

Cinnamon Roll Ingredients
2 cups Silk Vanilla Almond milk
1 tbsp (.5 oz) active dry yeast
0.33 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
4.5 cups all-purpose unbleached white flour
2 cups all-purpose whole wheat flour
2 eggs
0.25 cup Earth Balance Vegan Butter, room temperature

Filling Ingredients
0.5 cup Earth Balance Vegan Butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
3 tbsp cinnamon
1 cup loosely chopped walnuts
3 cups finely chopped tart apples

Apple Cider Glaze Ingredients
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tbsp + 1 tsp apple cider

Apple Cherry Turnover

Preheat oven 350 degrees

6 layers of phyllo dough
1 stick Earth Balance Vegan Buttery Sticks, melted

0.25 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
2 med apples cored and diced
0.33 cup dried cherries

2 tbsp sugar
0.5 tsp cinnamon

• Brush each layer of dough with butter placing one layer on top of the other
• Combine apples, cherries, brown sugar, and tsp of cinnamon
• Spoon mixture down length of dough, fold top & bottom over about 2 inches, then roll longways to enclose the filling
• Brush with remaining butter and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture
• Bake 30 minutes or ubtil golden brown and puffy