Baked Apples / Choi Jin - Jin

Baked Apples

< Ingredients >

Apple 4pc

Cinnamon 1tp

Butter 4Tb

Brown sugar 1Tb

White sugar 4Tb

- Pie Crust 

350g of All-purpose Flour

1 Tsp of Baking Powder

115 gm of vanilla Extract

1 Tbsp of Cream Cheese

1/2 Tsp of Salt

1/2 Cup of Milk

< Method of Preparation > 

Start by making the pie crust. 

In a mixing bowl, mix all the dry pie crust ingredients together. 

Melt the butter in a small sauce pot, remove from heat.

Add the Milk to the butter with the Vanilla extract and the mix.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry and add the tablespoon of cream cheese.

Knead by hand to combine into a moist pie crust.

Roll out the pie crust on a Floured surface to about a 1/6 inch thick and flour as needed.

Divide the crust into 4 sections, big enough to wrap an entire apple in and set each on the side.

Before starting to peel the apples, have a bowl ready filled with water and a couple of tablespoons of Lemon juice.

As you peel each apple you can place it in the lemon juice and water bath to prevent browning of the apples.

Wash, peel and de-core each apple, placing them in the lemon water bath as you go.

If you don't have lemon juice it is no big deal, the Apples may just turn a little brown before you finish peeling the last Apple. It has no effect on the apple itself.

Take a prepared Apple and pat it dry with a paper towel.

place in the center of one of the crust.

Place a Tsp of butter in the center core, Sprinkle with a tsp of cinnamon,

and a tsp of white sugar. Place the brown sugar in the core area as well.

Wrap the apple with the crust, crimping the top and sides.

Remove any excess crust and make a vent hole in the top.

Continue the process for each apple.

Place each apple Pastry on a lightly greased cookie sheet.

Brush each pastry with an wash.

Bake in a preheated 170 degree oven, for about 40 minutes; rotate the cookie sheet to brown evenly about 20 minutes into baking.

remove from the oven, and sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.