9.30.13 Muffin Tin Monday - Puppies

Today there were no super fun wacky holidays so I made little S a puppy themed lunch because I had some super cute cookie cutters and picks.

Top Row:

• Puppy Bones - provolone cheese bones cut with a cookie cutter
• Puppy Treats - corn and peanut puffs we found at Aldi last week
• Puppy Fruit skewers - Puppy picks with diced apple and pineapple cubes

Bottom Row:

• Paw Prints- Black forest ham and american cheese puppy paw prints cut with a cookie cutter
• Veggie - cauliflower no real reason other than he likes it and needs some veggies
• Puppy Food- apple crisp I baked this morning using several of the apples we picked Saturday. 

This apple crisp is a no oatmeal crisp that is super easy to make I have included the recipe below but I didn't get a picture of this before it was sampled. 

Sarrina's No oatmeal apple crisp:

5 cups of apple. This should be 5-6 apples depending on the size of the apple. I used a combination of Macintosh, Johnathan and Empire apples but you can use any time you have on hand that are not mealy, this is also super yummy with Granny Smith. 

Juice of 1/2 a lemon. 

1 stick of butter- melted

1 cup of white sugar

1 cup of brown sugar

1 cup of flour

1 tsp cinnamon or apple pie spices

1/4 tsp salt. 

Core and peel your apples. You want to section the apples into eight sections that you then cut into three chunks. Cutting this way ensures that your apple won't disintegrate while it cooks but will soften. You need 5 cups of cut apples. Grease the bottoms and sides of a 8 x 11 inch glass casserole pan. Place cut apples in the greased pan and sprinkle with the lemon juice, tossing to coat. 

In a large bowl add your melted stick of butter. I melt my butter in the mixing bowl, to save a dish, and use the microwave for me it takes about 32 seconds. Next dump into the mixing bowl the flour, the white and brown sugar, the spice and the salt. Stir and mix this until it comes together and is crumbly. 

Top the apples with your crumble mix pushing down at the sides to give the juices some room. If you don't move the apples and topping away from the sides the apple crumble could spill over the sides during the baking. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 40-55 minutes until brown and bubbly. 

I personally top this with either vanilla ice cream or whipped cream both are great when the apple crisp is warm.