Can Your Apple Recipes Beat Our Apple Recipes?

At this year’s Builders Home and Remodeling Show in St. Charles, the first ever Mills Apple Show was held. Of course, Halloween is around the corner and pumpkins are sold being sold everywhere, but believe it or not, October is the National Apple Month!

At the Mills Apple Show, bushels of Midwestern apple varieties were on display to bring home to share with friends and family. Mills also sold homemade apple pies and pastries. The big event, however, was a contest for the most delicious apple pie recipes and apple dessert recipes, ranging from apple dumplings to cinnamon apple pies. Two winners were chosen for their best apple recipes which we will share with you in this post.

Diane Disbrow of Collinsville, IL, won for best Praline Apple Pie in the Apple Pie Contest. Charlene Jones of St. Peters, MO, was selected for her scrumptuous Apple Dumplings recipe.

If you didn’t get a chance to try these tasty treats, you can make them at home right now with their winning applie recipes:

Praline Apple Pie

Filling Ingredients:

• 6 cups sliced, peeled apples (about 6 Golden Delicious)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp butter

Topping Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 tbsp half & half (or evaporated milk)
• 1/2 cup pecans
• double pie crust

Combine in large bowl: apples, flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Put into crust. Dot the top of apple mixture with 2 tbsp butter. Top with the second crust. Flute the edges. Cut slits in the top. Bake at 350° for 50-55 minutes.

Topping:

In a small saucepan, mix brown sugar, butter and milk. Bring to a boil slowly, then remove from heat. Stir in pecans. After the pie has baked for 55 minutes, cover with the praline mixture and bake for 15 minutes longer. Put pie on cookie sheet to avoid spill-over. You may need to cover the crust rim with aluminum foil to prevent over-browning. Let cool at least 1 hour before eating.

Homemade Apple Dumplings

Ingredients:

• 2-3 apples, peeled and sliced into 8-12 pieces
• 2 cans crescent rolls
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 2 sticks of butter, melted
• 12 oz. can of Mountain Dew

Preheat oven to 350°. Coat a 9″x13″ baking dish with non-stick spray. Mix sugar, cinnamon and butter. Cover and set aside. Separate crescent rolls where divided. Wrap 2-3 apple sections in individual pieces of dough; ensure that apples are completely covered and each dumpling is pinched tight when closed. Place in bottom of baking dish side-by-side, seam side down. Pour cinnamon, sugar and butter mixture over apple dumplings, followed by Mountain Dew. Bake
uncovered for 45 minutes.

We’ll be sharing other delectable apple pie recipes with you for the rest of the month so you can make the most of all the delicious apples available this time of year. If you have a favorite family apple recipe to share, please post it in the comments section, and we will be happy to publish it.

Originally posted 2009-10-25 15:41:01.

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