Odd Days!: This Apple Fell Far From the Tree!

Here’s a fun (not) story – I went to Publix on Saturday and bought some fresh fruit. Among the fruit, I found a bag of apples. Yum, right? Wrong. It turns out most of them were bruised. So, instead of throwing them out, I decided to do something with them!

My friend, Logan, named these "Far Out Mini Pies" or "FOMP" because of the "apple doesn't fall far..." quote. So, I'm sticking with it :)

What will you need to make a dozen FOMP, you ask?

Apples (haha, duh, right? I suggest half a dozen. It’s a good, sturdy number. I used Gala apples.)

1/8 tsp. (I love saying “tisp”) of All Spice

1/2 tsp. of Cinnamon

3/4 cup of Sugar

3 tbsp. Flour

1 Package of pre-made pie-crust dough

Butter

Vanilla Ice Cream

Cupcake pan

Step 1:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. While it’s preheating, mix the All Spice, Cinnamon, Sugar, and Flour in one bowl. Put this bowl aside for now.

Step 2:

Grease a cupcake pan. Unroll the dough, and cut out medium-large circles. I used a cup to cut my circles! Put each little circle over a cupcake spot, and press it down to form it to the greased pan, as demonstrated in the pictures below.

Step 3:

Chop up the apples! I did this part one apple at a time, because I wanted to only use as many apples as I had to. You can see in the pictures that I used smaller chunks, mostly because they’re easier to squish into small (cupcake-sized) places. Using the mixture from step 1, drop the apple chunks into the bowl and cover them in the mix. Scoop out the apple chunks and pack them into the dough-formed cupcake holders! (By the way – smell your hands after this step, if you used your hands to do the dunking. Yum, right? I would love to go around smelling like Christmas all the time.)

Step 4:

If there’s leftover powder, sprinkle it over the pies. Take a small slice of butter and put over each pie. This will add just a tad flavor, and keep the top moist. Cover the pan with tinfoil. This will help the apples cook all the way through. (And we like fully cooked apples!)

Step 5:

My roommate randomly decided to feed my fish here. If you have a pet that needs to eat, please feed him, her, or them, at this time.

Step 6:

Put the tin-covered cupcake-pies into the over (which should be preheated by now) for 25 minutes. I was going to put mine in for a little longer, but when I pulled them out after the 25 minutes, I realized they were cooked pretty well. Check yours. If they need to be in for a little longer, place them back in the oven. It helps if you close the oven door, too ;)

Step 7:

After the pies have cooled a bit, scoop them out of the cupcake pan and onto plates. I used a serving spoon to do this. (I’m in a college dorm, I have to be inventive.) Put them on a plate or something. (Something because for all I know, you’re inventive too.) Anywho, now comes the fun part!!!!!

Step 8:

When serving these pies, put a scoop of ‘nilla ice cream on them!!!! Yuuuuummmmm. If you didn’t figure it out, this is the part where you eat them!!!!!! (Also, look at the adorable ice-cream scoop! I love penguins almost as much as I love sheep and my cat, Keca.)

Also, my roomie helped me out with this project, which was fun. I didn’t use a recipe for this, it was mostly a collaboration of my own baking experiences and my mom’s told-you-so apple pie ingredients. It was nice getting to try something new with Laura (said roomie).