Cooking Thursday

Here's another good treat, perfect for Fall and so easy to make.  It only takes a few ingredients to put together and it is yummy!

Apple Pie Cheesecake Puffs

2 sheets puff pastry, thawed and at room temperature
1 can apple pie filling
1 container whipped cream cheese - cinnamon flavor if available (If not available, stir cinnamon into regular whipped cream cheese to taste

cinnamon sugar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Spray non-stick spray into 9 wells of a cupcake tin.  Lay one sheet of puff pastry over those 9 wells.  Use another tin and place this one on top of the other one with the pastry in it.  Press down so the second tin fits into the first one, creating wells in the pastry. Remove second tin, then cut across the muffin pan in squares to separate each piece of pastry.

Take a knife and cut the apples in the can of pie filling so the pieces are smaller.  Put about 1 tablespoon of filling in each well of the puff pastry.
Place about 1 tablespoon of the whipped cream cheese over the pie filling.

Take the second sheet of puff pastry and lay over the filled squares. Once again, cut across the muffin pans to separate the pastry into 9 squares.  Press each square around the pastry well, sealing to dough that is already there to the best of your ability.

Brush top of dough with water, then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

Bake for 30-35 minutes until lightly browned, then remove and serve.

Wordless Wednesday

 

A Day away

Last week Bob and I took a drive to Indiana. We went to Shipshewana, Amish country and spent the day there.

As we got near, we started seeing Amish farms, with lots of sheep, horses and cows.

We stopped at the Amish grocery store, and enjoyed seeing the horses and buggies in the parking lot.

There were lots of Amish people on bikes.

Shipshewana is really decorated for Fall.  All over town they decorated hay bales.

And look at these cute pumpkin scarecrows!

They were so creative!

We even took an Amish buggy ride. I was surprised that the Amish would do this, but it was fun to ride the buggy and talk with this Amish man.

This is an Amish school house. If you look on the left of the picture, you can see all the kids bikes.

These horses are pulling a piece of farm equipment.

This clothesline is connected to a pulley that pulls the clothes high up to dry.

As we left, we enjoyed this scene with buggies and bikes on the road.

We had such a nice day, and ended it with a very good Amish meal. We went home with full stomachs!