Apple Sauce Cookies

Ok, last apple recipe...for now.

When I make dehydrated apples, I use one of those hand crank thingies



And I love it! It makes my life so much easier. When my dehydrater is full of apple slices, my sink is full of peels. I boil the peels and cores down wiht about 1 cup of water and then mash them trough a old fashioned food mill that my mom picked up at an antique store eons ago. I love that thing. And it gives me about 2 cups of yummy fresh apple sauce.

So the other day I decided to use my fresh apple sauce to make some applesauce cookies.

Here's teh recipe I used with my modifications noted.

http://www.food.com/recipe/applesauce-cookies-298710

Modifications:
1 cup butter instead of 2
almost 2 cups of applesauce instead of 1
Extra 1/2 cup flour (appx)
I only added 1/2 cup chocolate chips and you definilty need 10 mins in the oven.

Apple Presents

Another great apple recipe! This one is from



1 tsp orange zest
1/3 cup fresh squeezed OJ
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 medium granny smith apples peeled, cored and sliced
1 tube of refigerated bread stick dough (I used crescent rolls and it worked well!)
1 tb. melted butter (I omitted this)

Pour the OJ in the bottom of a deep dish plate or glass bakign pan. Make the cinnamin sugar and add the orange zest to it. Then you open up one of the crescent rolls, spinkle it with cinn-zest sugar (my variation) place 2 to 3 pieces of apple near the end, and roll the apples up in the dough. PLace them seam side down in the pan. Sprinkle them with more cin-zest sugar (brush with butter first if you're using butter) and bake in a 375 oven for 25 minutes or so.

It's a lighter, tastier variation of McD's apple pie.