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Quick Dessert

Here's a quick and easy dessert to make if you just want a few servings (double or triple if you want more):

Apple Puff Pastry Cups

1 Granny Smith apple

1/8 cup brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon butter or margarine

3 frozen Puff Pastry cups

Decorative sugar (optional)

Preheat your oven to 425F. Peel and thinly slice the apple. Melt the butter in a small skillet, adding the sliced apple, brown sugar and cinnamon. Cook the mixture until the apples are soft, remove from heat and set aside.

Arrange the puff pastry cups on a greased cookie sheet, and bake at 425F for 14 minutes. Remove from oven, take off the little disc of pastry on top with a fork, fill the cup with your apple mixture, replace the pastry disc, and bake for 4 more minutes. Makes three servings.

Comments

nightsmusic said…
These look yummy! All I need is an apple. I pre-cook the filling in my apple pie as well. I've made them so many times in the past where they were overloaded and piled high with fresh apple filling, only to find them half filled and the top crust sunken in once they're baked.

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