Apple Rose Tarts

After giving the Mini Apple Rose Pies recipe from the blog From My Impossibly Tiny Kitchen for the first time and finding much success, I retried the recipe again for Thanksgiving, and here are the results! I got a lot of compliments on them and thought they were the perfect dessert for the occasion.

The first time I made these I used green apples since they were on hand, but despite how good they taste, they don't look great appearance-wise once the apple skin browns, so I went with red apples (Fuji I believe) for the second attempt. I also modified the filling recipe by adding a generous sprinkle of cinnamon to melted butter mixture which I think gives more of an apple pie filling flavor. 

Attempt #1: I used thicker slicer here since they were cut by hand

Green --> brown

I believe I used more than two apples for the amount of dough that I had, and I also found it easier to roll the apple pieces in my hand instead of laying a row flat on the table. Since the slices were much thinner than they were the first time I made these, it definitely took me much longer to roll all of them up. 

Using Fuji apples instead

Out of the oven.

10/10 would make again

Peanut Butter Caramel Twix Bars

Averie over from Averie Cooks posted this delicious looking recipe for peanut butter caramel Twix bars that my sister tried making with her friends. They were yummy, but not the best, so we went ahead and tried it again and here they are. Amazingly delicious diabetes-in-a-bite bars. Seriously easy and probably won't be lasting long. At all.

Look at that smooth chocolate.

Side view. The foil made it look funky.