Nature’s Pride: Apple Pie for Two

Good evening!!  I hope you all had a wonderful day!! 

Tonight, I have a special treat for you.  Foodbuzz and Nature’s Pride are offering six bloggers the chance to attend the Foodbuzz Festival In San Francisco November 5th-7th as a Nature’s Pride Bread Ambassador.

In order to win one of those six spots, the blogger has to create a unique recipe using Nature’s Pride bread and post it to their blog by October 3rd.

I REALLLLYYY want to go to San Francisco, but I can’t afford to do it on my own because we’re going to be in Los Angeles just one month prior. 

Soooo…I decided I needed to snag one of those six spots by coming up with a recipe so unique and fantastic that they couldn’t help but send me to San Francisco.

I am happy to say, I have succeeded!! No, I haven’t been offered one of those spots, YET, but after you make this recipe, you’ll be calling up Nature’s Pride and Foodbuzz yourself and telling them to send me.  Yes, it’s THAT good!!

This recipe is Apple Pie for Two made with Nature’s Pride hamburger buns.  Yep, hamburger buns.

You, can of course use wheat buns, too.  I had these white buns leftover from the Tastemaker program.  Nature’s Pride sent them to me for free earlier in the summer and I put them in the freezer to keep.

Start by pre-heating your oven to 425 degrees.

I thawed two buns for this recipe using the tops as the pie crust.  All you have to do is press them into a miniature pie pan just like you would with a regular pie crust.  You could use a large muffin pan, too.

Next, you brush the crusts with butter or margarine.  I used Brummel and Brown yogurt spread.

After preparing your crusts, mix together your pie filling ingredients in an oven safe dish.

Place the filling in the oven to cook for 5 minutes.

While the filling is cooking, take the bun bottoms and cut them into thin strips.  Flatten them slightly with a rolling pin or your hands.

Brush the strips with butter and then sprinkle lightly with sugar.

After 5 minutes, remove the filling from the oven and spoon into your crusts.

Lay your strips on top of the filling in a lattice pattern, pinching the ends together with the bottom crust.

Remove pies from the oven and enjoy!!!  And boy will you!!!

These were delicious!!  And they take so little time to make you can throw them together while making dinner and have dessert in an instant!!

They’re a little calorie dense (487 calories), so I suggest sharing with a special someone.

 

There are many alterations you could make to this recipe, to meet your needs or cravings:

• Using a muffin pan and nixing the top crust.
• Substituting Splenda or other alternative sweetener for the brown sugar
• Using wheat buns
• A different filling (strawberry, cherry, chocolate)

Whatever strikes your fancy!!

Me?  I just wanted a little vanilla ice cream with mine.

Nature’s Pride Apple Pie for Two

Filling (adapted from Paula Deen’s recipe)

• 1/4 cup light brown sugar
• 1/8 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 tbsp ground cinnamon
• Freshly ground nutmeg, to taste
• 1.5 medium apples, peeled, cored and cut into cubes
• 1 tbsp lemon juice

Crust

• 2 hamburger buns

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 425 degrees
2. Mix filling ingredients together in an oven safe dish
3. Place filling in the oven for 5 minutes
4. While filling is cooking, press top piece of bun into small pie pan or large muffin pan and brush with butter
5. Flatten bottom piece of bun and cut into thin strips
6. Butter each strip and sprinkle with sugar
7. Remove filling from oven and spoon filling into pie crusts
8. Lay thin pieces of bottom bun over top in lattice pattern, pinching the edges together with the bottom crust
9. Place pies in oven for 5 minutes
10. Remove from oven, top with vanilla ice cream and enjoy!!

 

Have a wonderful night and let me know how you like these if you make them!!

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