Apple Streusel Crescent Bites

Apple  Streusel  Crescent BItes

 

These tasty little bites are not too sweet, in fact just right. I used my grandfathers apples leftover from his orchard last year ( I have been savoring them). I was cleaning out the refrigerator and noticed I was stock piling up on crescent rolls. Apparently I did not do inventory very well last time I went to the grocery store. This is a great way to use up some of the extra inventory. Plus I got to use my new pampered chef brownie pan again !!!

 

Ingredients:

1 package of reduced fat crescent  rolls

3 medium apples cored, peeled and diced

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Cooking Spray (canola oil is my favorite)

 

Streusel Topping

1/8 cup of cinnamon sugar blend (a good ratio is 1/4 cup sugar to 1 TB cinnamon)

1/8 cup AP flour

1 TB unsalted Butter (diced)

This recipe yields 8 streusel bites

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325 and spray with cooking spray either a mini preportioned brownie pan or stand size muffin pan.

 

2.  Take a medium sized nonstick saute pan and heat to medium low heat. Cooking spray the pan and add the diced apples and cinnamon.

Apples with cinnamon

 

Sauté for 5 to 7 minutes while the apples caramelize.

 
caramelized apples with cinnamon

 

3. In the meantime take the crescent roll package and lay out the dough on cutting board. Seam together two of the crescent each making 4 rectangles. Once 4 rectangles are formed cut into 8 squares. As pictured below.

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4.  Take the squares and place them individually in the pan. Press the dough lightly down to form a vessel for the caramelized apples.

 

 

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5. Add a TB and a half of the Caramelized apples into each vessel.

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6. In a small bowl combine cinnamon sugar, flour and butter. Run the butter through your fingers with the sugar and flour to break into small particles.

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7. Add one TB of cinnamon sugar mixture onto the apples.

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8. Bake for 13 minutes on 350 degrees.

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9. Let cool on wire rack in pan for 5 minutes.

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Enjoy!