Apple Cinnamon Rolls

I was in the mood to bake with apples today

and I thought to myself there must be something on pinterest 

that using both apples and cinnamon rolls.

I came across this idea from Six Sisters' Stuff

but they used pie filling in a can which I did not have.

So I looked up an easy Apple Pie Filling recipe 

and found one at Food.com.

Ingredients for filling:

4 cups diced apples

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1/2 cup sugar

{depending on sweetness of apples, to taste}

2 -4 tablespoons cornstarch

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, to your taste

1 teaspoon cinnamon, to your taste

1 cup apple juice or 1 cup water

{Try to use juice because it adds to the flavor}

Directions:

1. Sprinkle lemon juice over apples in saucepan.

2. Mix next four ingredients together and add to apples.

3. Mix well.

4. Add very hot juice to pan, 

{I microwave juice for 2 minutes}

 cook, stirring constantly until thickened.

5. Remove from heat and cool.

Next I put premade cinnamon rolls in a round dish 

and added the apples on top.

I baked the cinnamon rolls for 15 minutes.
I checked to make sure the rolls were done and
they were a little doughy still so put them in for another 5 minutes.

When they were done I added the frosting that came 

with the  cinnamon rolls.
Let cool and serve!

Mini Apple Muffins

I have plenty of apples in the house after

picking 10 lbs on Wednesday.

Today I told myself I would make some apple muffins.

I had a recipe saved on pinterest from Skinny Mom's Kitchen.

Ingredients:

1 cup whole wheat Flour

{I used 2 cups instead of one of each of whole wheat flour}

1 cup all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons cinnamon

2 large eggs

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup 1% milk

{I used nonfat}

1 cup applesauce

{I used homemade stove top applesauce}

1 cup finely chopped apples

* I also added 2 T. ground flaxseed

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Step 1. Combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl and set aside.

Step 2. Using a hand or stand mixer combine eggs, brown sugar, milk, and applesauce.

Step 3. Slowing combine dry ingredients into wet ingredients.

Step 4: Fold in apples.

Spray muffin pan with cooking spray and fill cups.

Since I was using mini muffin tin I used a tablespoon in each one. 

 Cook about 13 minutes or until toothpick is clean.

The kids had about half of them eaten by dinner time!