"As autumn arrives, apples appear."

The best of apple pies and pop-tarts? Small, delicious and easy to make. Not quite as easy as just sticking it in the toaster but so much tastier and healthier. I don't have facts to back up the healhty but it's made from scratch so it must be.

I stole this amazing recipe from a fun blog I just discovered called A Beautiful Mess. (that link leads right to the recipe). It's 5 ingredients, 10 minutes to prep (especially if you have a great apple-chopper like Alex) and 15 minutes in the oven. Elsie also has recipes for pumpkin pie and pecan pie and you can bet I'll be trying those too!

Puff pastry

1 peeled and chopped apple

3 tbsp brown sugar

1 tbsp sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon (and little to sprinkle on top)

I used pumpkin-shaped cookie cutters but cutting the puff pastry can be any shape that's large enough to put some apples in the middle. The one apple provided a little more than was needed for the seven tarts that the puff pastry provided but eating the leftover cinnamon-covered apples was enough to stave my hunger until the tarts were ready.

Oh my goodness was it worth it! Some of the apple-mix was oozing out and sizzling on the pan when I pulled them out. The whole apartment smells amazing. As I am writing this, there is only one left between the three of us, so that might say something.