Christmas Cast-Iron Apple ?This time of year, I spend a lot of time in the kitchen experimenting. When it’s cold and dreary outside, there is nothing better than cranking up the oven and testing out new recipes. The other evening we had a full house decorating the Christmas tree. I threw together a quick dinner and the girls and my brother were in charge of dessert. The only parameters were keep it light since everything seems to be oh so rich over the holidays. We had some wonderfully tart green apples so we decided on a apple dessert. One of my girls loves apple turnovers, another pie, another crumbles so we melded everyone’s favorite apple dessert together for this unique cast-iron apple whatchamacallit. You can use any pie crust but in our case the puff pastry worked beautifully.

Christmas Cast Iron Apple

Ingredients

  • Frozen Puff Pastry or Pie Crust
  • Apples, sliced thinly
  • 3/4 Stick of Butter
  • 4 Teaspoons Brown Sugar
  • 4 Teaspoons White Sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 3 Handfuls of Flour

Instructions

  1. Melt a large pat of butter in the cast iron skillet. Remove the skillet from the heat.
  2. Place the puff pastry or pie crust in the bottom of the skillet
  3. Toss the apples with cinnamon, vanilla, 3 teaspoons of brown sugar and 3 teaspoons of white sugar
  4. Layer apples on top of pastry (leaving enough room for the sides to be folded over)
  5. For the crumble topping: Mix three handfuls of flour with 1/2 stick of butter and 1 teaspoon of both white and brown sugar until the butter becomes of pea sized consistency.
  6. Place the topping over the apples and fold over the pastry for a rustic look
  7. Brush the exposed pastry with butter
  8. Bake in the oven at 350 until pastry and apples are browned.