Now your teacher not only has a little snack for school but can also display a basket to remind her students to clip away. Once cooled you can fill your teachers Box Top for Education basket first with a colored paper napkin and then a piece of parchment.Ĭut out one of these fun labels and hang it from your basket. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar onto of the rolled crescents. Top with chopped pecans, caramel pieces or a mixture of both.Īdd a slice or two (if thinner sliced) at the fat end of the crescent roll and roll it up. Set the pieces aside and make the filling. Youll end up with 12 triangles, slightly rounded on one end.
Sprinkle the brown sugar and cinnamon mixture evenly over each triangle. 2 Slice each of the rolled pie crusts into quarters. Roll out the Pillsbury Crescent rolls and lay them on a piece on a cookie sheet lined with Parchment paper. I found 2 smaller slices in each roll up worked well too. These are super easy and flavorful you will want to make an extra batch for you and one for your teacher.Ĭut a Granny Smith Apple into 8 pieces. We could not just give this basket empty so we made Caramel Apple Pie Bites using Crescent Rolls. You probably already have a nice basket laying around the house that you can donate for the cause!
What a better way to encourage your class to donate theirs as well by giving your teacher a fun basket to collect them. Yesterday we explained how easy it is to collect Box Tops For Education for your schools, especially with the 5 box bonus available on several Walmart packaging. With the whole wheat and fresh apples you could almost convince yourself that it is a good choice for breakfast.This is a sponsored conversation about Box Tops For Education written by me on behalf of General Mills®. It is completely worth it for such an amazing tasting healthy caramel apple pie cookie. Especially after that 20 minute point, you want to keep a close eye because caramel likes to burn.īut, if you are careful, you will have the best tasting, silkiest coconut caramel sauce you have ever eaten. And while it does take a while for the caramelizing to happen, I advise against leaving the kitchen or becoming too distracted. When in doubt, keep the heat low and don’t walk away: As your caramel cooks, you want it to be just at that point of simmering, no more.Place pie on baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 50 - 60 minutes. With fork, combine butter, sugar, flour, and cinnamon until mixture forms crumbs. Anytime crystals start forming, more and more will build on it. In small pan, melt caramels and water over very low heat. The steam will condense and wash them back down the sides. If crystals form on the sides of the pot, cover it: If a couple crystals are forming up the sides of the pot after the sugar melts, cover it with a lid for 15-30 seconds.But too much and you will add air pockets where crystals will form. Stir gently, not vigorously: You want to stir just enough to keep the heat and dissolved coconut sugar evenly distributed.Stirring just a little bit every so often helps with this too. The deeper your caramel is in the pan, the more likely the bottom portion is to get bitter before the sauce at the top gets to that perfect flavor. Your favorite caramel apple dip gives this upgraded easy Caramel Apple Pie a decadent flavor your whole family will rave about. A medium to large pot is better: Also, use a larger pot than you think looks right for the volume of ingredients.An enamel or cast-iron pot is great for this. Use a pot with a really heavy bottom: This helps the heat distribute evenly so that no portion of the sauce starts burning before the rest caramelizes.Here are a few of my best caramel making tips for a successful dairy-free caramel: They are perfect to balance out the sweet and salty caramel and flaky whole grain pastry. Both varieties are tart, with lots of flavor, and a firm structure that holds up well. The best apples choices would be the ever-popular Granny Smiths or Braeburns.
With so much caramel and the nutty flavor of whole wheat, you want something with a flavor that stand out. There’s a good guide to apple varieties for baking with my apple enchiladas, but specifically for this recipe I recommend something tart. With so many varieties of apple that are available in fall, it might be hard to figure out the best choice for each recipe. Now you get some extra fiber and proteins from the crust and the caramel sauce has no cholesterol – or regular sugar! What type of apple should you use? Admittedly, you can’t call this that healthy of a dessert, but the nutritional value is certainly significantly better than it used to be. Of course, I had to make it a little bit healthy with a 50/50 blend of whole grain flour and switching out the standard salted caramel for some coconut caramel that is completely vegan.
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