Recipe: Mini Pumpkin Pie Sliced Cookies
Make these adorable fall & Thanksgiving themed treats that are the perfect size for snacking! They’re also pretty simple to make.
What You Need:
- Circle cookie cutter
- Pumpkin orange 20-second icing
- Stiff-ish crust colored piping icing (You may have to mix ivory with a little bit of warm brown}
- Stiff white piping icing
Directions:
- Cut circles out of cookie dough (sugar or whatever you choose) and cut into pie slices. For these in the picture, it is a 4″ circular cutter. The size of the circle you choose will change the size of the “pies” you make. Then bake as directed and let cool.
- Flood the wedges with the pumpkin orange icing and let dry.
- For the “crust” on top, use a #101 tip near the left corner of the cookie, thin side up. Use a loose M shape until you get to the other side. To clean it up or make it look sharper, use a toothpick.
- To make the “dollop of whipped cream” on top, use a star tip with a #16 or #18.
- Put on a Thanksgiving serving tray that you can make for less than $2, and voila! A cheap and delicious Thanksgiving gift for friends and family.
Thank you to Sweet Sugar Belle for the great cookie decoration idea!
DIY Nutter Butter Turkey Cookies
How cute are these Turkey cookie creations? These would be fun to make with your kids as a “craft” to do before Thanksgiving to bring as a treat to your family meal or as a treat to eat later this month. Thanks to Life with Moore Babies for the tutorial (visit the site for a step-by-step visual tutorial and pictures of her adorable babies!)!
Ingredients:
- Nutter Butters
- Oreos
- Regular size Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
- Icing (LWMB Blog used decorating, but any icing that stands strong is fine)
- mini M&Ms
- jellybeans
Directions:
- Place icing on the back of a peanut butter cup and stick it to a Nutter Butter. Then using more icing to hold them in place, stand both the Nutter Butter and the peanut butter cup up on an Oreo.
Note: If you are doing this activity with kids, have them choose their own colored candies! It will make it more “theirs”. Messy is fun! :) - Now, add 2 mini M&Ms for eyes, an orange jelly bean for the beak, and a red jelly bean for the waddle on more frosting.
- Then squirt icing across the top of the peanut butter cup, so you can add jelly beans for feathers. Each of the blogger’s turkeys had five feathers.
- Also add icing then two yellow jelly beans at the bottom of the Nutter Butter for feet.
Recipe: Caramel Apple Nachos
Apple season is at its finest right now – so is “having too much candy around the house” season! Combine these into this delicious snack or dessert idea from The Pin Junkie. Of course, you can always change candy and apple types, and add or take off some of the toppings. The apple nachos would also be good with chocolate syrup or pre-made caramel sauce.ENJOY!
Ingredients:
- 2 green granny smith apples, cored & sliced
- half a bag of caramel
- 1 teaspoon water
- 1/4 cup chopped peanuts
- 2 Tablespoons mini chocolate chips (or M&Ms)
Directions:
1. Unwrap all individual caramels. Place them in a saucepan with one teaspoon of water over medium-low heat. Stir the caramel constantly until caramels are completely melted.
2. Drizzle melted caramel over sliced apples.
3. Sprinkle with chopped peanuts and mini chocolate chips.
Recipe: Disneyland’s Apple Pie Caramel Apples
These Apple Pie Caramel Apples are a huge hit! I was able to find a recipe to make them at home, and it’s not as hard as it looks.
Ingredients:
- 4 large Granny Smith apples
- 5 to 6 cups caramels (or appx. 1 bag Kraft Caramel bits)
- 7 to 8 cinnamon graham crackers (or 1 prepared pie crust)
- 1 .5 lbs. melting chocolates (or chocolate chips)
- cinnamon & sugar to taste (appx 2 Tbsp sugar + 1/8 tsp. cinnamon)
- 8 large marshmallows (optional: to make “ears”)
Directions:
- To get the wax coating off from the apples, scrub apples and dry with a dishcloth or paper towel. To get the wax completely off, drop them in boiling water for a few seconds then scrub off.
- Refrigerate apples for a few hours until they are fully cold.
- Melt caramel in the microwave (in a microwave-safe dish) for 30 seconds at a time until caramel is nice and melted (or follow directions on package if using Bits). If you are using unwrapped caramels, you can also put caramels in a small crockpot on high heat until melted.
- Place caramel apple sticks or popsicle sticks into the top of each apple and dip each apple into the caramel until fully coated, rotating the apple as needed. Let excess caramel drip off and them place the apples on wax paper. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours until caramel is completely cooled onto the apples.
- In a food processor, process graham crackers (or pie crust) until well blended. If using a pie crust, add a little cinnamon and sugar to the mixture. Place in a bowl and set aside.
- Melt chocolate in a microwave-safe dish in the microwave until chocolate is just melted and there are no lumps. Dip each apple in the chocolate and allow chocolate to set for a few seconds. When chocolate has slightly set, roll the bottom half in processed pie or cracker crumbs. Sprinkle each entire apple with cinnamon and sugar and set aside.
- Optional: Once the chocolate on the apples have set, roll each marshmallow in the chocolate and place onto the apples to make Mickey’s “ears”. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar and hold in place until the ears set.
A HUGE thanks to Favorite Family Recipes for the awesome recipe and picture!
Recipe: Apple Pie “French Fries”
Okay, so maybe these Apple Pie “French Fries” aren’t the healthiest snack, but how cute are they? They look like real French fries with salt and shape. These would be really fun to have at a birthday party. The recipe below from Oh Bite It! serves 25-30 “fries”, so you may need more than that for parties.
Ingredients:
- 1 pkg of Pillsbury refrigerated pie crusts (2 ct., but brand doesn’t matter)
- 1.5 cups of Apple Pie Filling
- 1 Egg
- Sparkle sugar for sprinkling “salt” onto the fries
- Caramel sauce and/or ice cream for dipping
- Optional: Food processor, Decorative edge roll-cutter
Directions:
- Chop up apple pie filling as best as you can, or use food processor and save tons of time.
- Unroll the 2 pie crusts. On 1 of the crusts, spread the apple filling around leaving 1/8″ at edge, then lightly press the other crust onto the top of it to secure it.
- Make egg wash by combining an egg with a splash of water.
- Brush egg wash across the entire top of the crust and sprinkle with the sparkle sugar.
- Cut the crust into 1/2″ strips then again into “fries” shape and size. Place very carefully onto parchment paper lined baking sheet.
- Bake at 350-degrees for 12 minutes or until slightly golden and firm.
- Serve with caramel and/or ice cream for dipping.