What's For Dessert?

[katydidthat]

I have to brag a little bit ... I rarely cook dessert. 

Tonight, though, I am making apple pie.  

It's kind of accidental ... I ordered 2 single green apples from the supermarket for home delivery and got 2 kilos of them.  So, when life delivers you apples, you make apple pie, don't you?

I'm going to add lots of sugar and some sultanas and top it with puff pastry made with BUTTER and then I'm going to add lots of whipped cream.  Sounding good?

Questions:

When you make apple pie, do you cook the apples first, or just add them to the pie dish raw?

What are you having for dessert tonight?  

What did you last cook for dessert?  

Do you have any yummy recipes or ideas to share?  

Do you just break out the chocolate?  

And, feel free to add your own comments and questions ... 😉 🙂

[2106greencat]

Sounds fabulous  -

Unfortunately my kid's risk their very lives just eating a meal I have cooked, I really couldn't put them at further risk by cooking desert.

😞

[azureline**]

Yum!

I always cook the apples first.

I made apple strudel yesterday, shortcrust pastry.

I find puff pastry too "rigid"

[2106greencat]

Just to prove my point - ^^^^^

I made sausage rolls one time.....that's right, didn't notice it was shortcrust pastry 😞

[freddie*rooster]

I was watching one of those cooking shows recently.  They used puff pastry, they cut the pastry into breville size squares,  brushed it with melted marg, placed thinly sliced apple cinnamon and a sprinkle of sugar on it,  they put a square of the puff pastry on top brushed it with melted marg and wacked it in the breville, it looked so yummy on the plate with a blob of cream and icecream.

[katydidthat]

Greencat ... your poor kids :_|

😉

Thanks, Az ... I think I used to do it that way ... it's a good 20 years since I made an apple pie.  

I'm too lazy to make pastry today ... and I have to have it without margarine .... so they had puff pastry made with butter.  

Has anyone invented a better way to get the apples ready for apple pie?  What with peeling, coring and slicing, I'm just about worn out ... 

[katydidthat]

I've heard of that, Freddie, but never had a breville.  

Well, what are YOU all cooking for dessert?  

I mean, here I am with a great big inferiority complex about rarely cooking dessert for my lovely boy, and imagining that all Aussie mums are slaving away at the stove cooking nightly ... or weekly ... or monthly ... sweet things for their lovely families, while I buy the occasional bag of snakes ... and no-one else here is making dessert?  Am I really normal?  

Oh, God.  I just remembered.  The year before last he made his own birthday cake.  

HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[freddie*rooster]

Katy, this recipe cooks the apple.

http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/apple-pie-L3136.html

No dessert here for me, but the OH is having mango cheese cake from the freezer, thanks to his sister who is a chef.

[katydidthat]

Thanks, Freddie ... that is just about what I did, except I added sultanas and that spice stuff that's not cinnamon 🙂

It's in the oven now.

I'm feeling more inadequate ... I sliced off the bits of pastry around the pie dish and had meant to make them into pretty leaves ... I just put the straggly bits on the top and thought ... that'll do (or something like that).  

I mean ... it will TASTE the same, won't it?  

[freddie*rooster]

Yes it will and boy's never ever notice important things, you have done very well.

Here's one for next week.

Crepes with Caramel Apples

Ingredients

2 Eggs
200g Flour, sifted
200 - 250 ml Milk
60g caster sugar + 100g sugar for caramel
50g Butter, melted
2 green apples
½ Lemon zest
1 pinch cinnamon

Method

Sift the flour. Make a well in the middle and break eggs. Mix until combined and gradually add the milk, sugar and melted butter. Mix well to make sure there are no lumps.

Set aside.

In another pan add the remaining sugar to make a caramel. Add peeled and quartered apples and cook for 10 minutes on low heat. Now add the zest.

To make crepes, heat a pan and add oil, pour in a ladle full of crepe mix and spread around pan. Cook for 1 minute on each side.

To serve, fold crepes in quarters and spoon over some caramel apples with a pinch of cinnamon.