I’ve been spending more time in the kitchen lately. Trying to ‘trim’ the grocery budget back a bit and buy less ‘convenience’ foods. Which mostly consists of SWEETS in our house. Michael doesn’t just have “a” sweet tooth. He’s got a whole mouth FULL of them! Last week I made some apple turnovers, almost from scratch; and using stuff I already had on hand.
That’s my ingredients. Although I only used a TINY bit of the frosting.
First I diced up about 1/3 of the apple filling so they’d more easily fit inside the turnovers.
Take one of the crescent rolls and fold over one of the corners.
Smoosh your crescent piece around a bit to get a shape like the one on the right. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
Put a dollop of your diced apple pie filling on one side of your smooshed out crescent.
Fold over and pinch the edges together by hand, then use a fork to seal the edges more tightly. Make three small slits in the top.
Sprinkle on a little more cinnamon sugar and transfer to your greased baking sheet.
Continue the process with all 8 crescents in the package. If you wanted to, you COULD shape them more ‘perfectly’ and uniformly. Since I wasn’t even sure these were going to turn out, I went for ‘speed’.
Bake per the instructions on your crescent roll package. While they are baking, portion out a little bit of your frosting. I put mine in a ramekin. Frosting is really optional, except in Michael’s case! You could also do a simple sugar glaze with powdered sugar and water.
Microwave the ramekin of frosting just long enough to melt it. (just a few SECONDS! Watch it or it WILL bubble over very quickly!)
Remove from oven when baking time is up.
Give your melted and now slightly cooled down frosting a stir and drizzle on top of the cooked turnovers.
We sampled them ‘just out of the oven’ and still warm. Michael gives them 2 thumbs up!
Next batch will be with regular canned fruit instead of pie filling!
Bon apetit!
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