Miniature Apple Pies ~ Yum!

My Girlies & I just made the most yummy snack ~ homemade miniature apple pies!

I found this recipe today and thought we'd try it as an afternoon/after nap snack. All my girls, even my little 4-year-old Abby, made their own with Mommy watching so it's easy enough for little ones to do. I love being in the kitchen with my girls and it was a lot of fun! Okay, here's the recipe and how you make them.

Slices of bread
Apple
Sugar
Cinnamon
Vanilla Extract
Butter

The original instructions said to "roll" the piece of bread out flat but since we don't have 5 rolling pins, we just "smushed" the bread with our hands. For obvious reasons, my girls enjoyed this part! "You mean we get to smush and play with our food?"! So cute! Set the bread aside. Combine sugar, cinnamon and vanilla extract in a small bowl. I let my girls pour, shake and "measure" while I watched closely. The recipe didn't come with amounts, so just kinda guess how much to make a dry, crumbly mixture. Use a cheese grater to grate 1/4 of an apple into each child's bowl and then let them mix it all together. (You may have to add more of something until it looks like a semi-wet apple pie-ish filling? I don't know......just do your best! : ) !) We used Granny Smith apples (my girls' favorite kind) and it turned out great but you can use whatever kind you want. Each of our mixtures was enough to make 3 little pies each. Put 1/3 of the mixture onto the smushed bread, roll up and secure with a toothpick. Butter the outside and place on a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. While the little pies were baking, the whole house smelled like warm apple crisp ~ YUM! When they came out of the oven they were crispy on the outside, warm & bubbly on the inside & caramelized on the ends ~ YUM again! : ) Hope you enjoy them as much as my happy little bakers & I did!

The Palmer Girls x 5 : )