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A guest Chef!

This week I’d like to welcome my friend Beth as a guest Chef who will be giving us a recipe for Cinnamon Apple Crisps.

The knives are yours Beth!

Having grown up on a small apple orchard when I was little, I have acquired a love of apples. There was nothing like picking a ripe red delicious apple off the tree and biting down into it. It never failed that I would come home my chin and hands would be caked with apple juices. There would be long afternoons with my grandmother and then my mother and father baking apple pies with gala, golden delicious, and granny smiths. There really are so many wonderful varieties and flavors in this simple fruit.

When I was visiting my mother some years ago I had this sweet craving. She pulled out this recipe and suggested we give it a try. Within the first thirty minutes the house smelled so good, reminding me of those memories growing up. After the first hour, I was ravenous! Pulling them out of the oven to put them on the rack, they cool quickly. They were wonderful! The perfect sweet thing along with a potato chip crunch, I was hooked!

There is no need to peel or core the apples, just wash them off and dry them. I use a mandolin to slice the apples; they make the perfect paper thin slices with half the work. Don’t slice more than you can bake at one time, or you will wind up with brown slices. Unlike baking cookies, you can place them as close as you want to each other, they will shrink and ripple slightly during the baking process.

I put my sugar and cinnamon in a shaker and just sprinkle liberally over all the slices. Easy clean up. After you pull them out of the oven, you can use your fingers or a spatula to put the slices on a cooling rack. Let them cool thoroughly before storing. I normally just put mine straight into snack bags for the work week, also great for the kids lunch boxes. They will last about a week after baking them. It’s the perfect sweet, crispy, healthy snack. I hope you enjoy!

RECIPE:

Cinnamon Apple Crisps

Ingredients

2 small apples, Red Delicious or Gala, sliced paper-thin

1 Tbsp. sugar

½ tsp. ground cinnamon.

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
2. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper (NOT WAX PAPER). Place apple slices in a single layer on paper.
3. Mix sugar and cinnamon
4. Sprinkle over apple slices
5. Bake until lightly browned, about 2 hours. Cool on a wire rack and serve.

This is a Weight Watchers recipe and makes 4 servings at 1 point a piece.

Double bonus, makes the house smell wonderful!!!