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Mini Apple Butterhorns

November 7, 2020 by sblades Leave a Comment

Mini Apple Butterhorns are the epitome of Fall baking. Warm spices, sweet apples and a light almond glaze in a mini yeast crescent. An amazing two-bite pastry!

Apple Butterhorns

Thanksgiving – check. Christmas – check. Brunch – check. Make these for any occasion and you’ll be a popular baker.

Apple Butterhorns

These little rolls are made with yeast, but you just mix it right into the dough mixture and there’s no proofing or rising time.

You don’t have to worry whether or not you’ve let the dough rise long enough. No worries about killing the yeast with too hot of water. Now this is the kind of yeast dough I like!

Apple Butterhorns

Of course, you do need to make sure your yeast is fresh – I think you all know that by now. Old yeast, flat rolls.

How do I make this easy yeast dough?

  • Throw the yeast, flour, and butter into a stand mixer bowl and combine till crumbly.
  • Add the softened butter, egg yolks, sour cream and sugar and mix well. (I use light sour cream and it works beautifully.)
  • Divide the dough into four balls (it’s kind of a sticky dough, so flour your hands), wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

I just love this quick yeast dough. You do need to leave it overnight in the refrigerator, but think of it as a make-ahead pastry.

The next morning, roll out the dough, spoon on the apple-cinnamon filling, roll those suckers up, and bake. You don’t really have to glaze them, but I recommend it.

Apple Butterhorns

After my first bite of one of these Mini Apple Butterhorns, I could tell the yeast added a lot to the flavor – they taste like little mini-apple cinnamon rolls.

They’re pretty and you don’t feel like you’ve eaten a great big cinnamon roll because they’re only two bites. Of course, if you eat four of them at one sitting, I’m thinking you just ate a great big cinnamon roll. (It’s worth it!)

I hope you’ll try this tasty butterhorns recipe. I’ll keep this recipe close at hand for special treats and weekend snacking.

Looking for more delicious pastries?

  • Maids of Honour (delicious custard cups)  
  • Mountain Dew Apple Cobbler (yes, made with Mountain Dew – and they’re amazing!
Apple Butterhorns stacked on a white plate

Overnight Apple Butterhorns

Yield: 64 mini-rolls
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 18 minutes
Total Time: 38 minutes

Amazing yeast-based two-bite butterhorns filled with cinnamon, sugar, and tart apple and finished with a light almond glaze.

Ingredients

  • 1 pkg (.25 oz) active dry yeast
  • 3 C (360g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 C butter, softened to room temperature
  • 3 large egg yolks, whisked with a fork
  • 1 C (240g) sour cream
  • 1 tbsp (12g) granulated sugar
  • For the Filling:
  • 1 large tart, crisp apple, peeled and finely chopped
  • 1/2 C (100g) granulated sugar
  • 3/4 tsp (2g) ground cinnamon
  • For the Glaze:
  • 1 C (120g) powdered sugar
  • 2 tbsp (24g) milk
  • a few drops of almond extract
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Whisk together the yeast and flour and pour into a stand mixer bowl. Add the softened butter and mix on low until crumbly. Add the egg yolks, sour cream, and sugar. Beat until totally combined.
  2. Dough will be a little sticky, so flour your hands and shape the dough into four equal balls (about 8 oz. - 226 g. each). Flatten the balls a little with the palm of your hand, wrap in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator. Refrigerate overnight.
  3. Preheat the oven to 350° (177c). Prepare one or two baking sheets with parchment paper.
  4. Prepare the filling: Put the finely chopped (almost minced) apples into a small bowl, along with the sugar and cinnamon. Stir together and set aside.
  5. Take out one of the flattened dough packets. Generously flour your counter or marble and rolling pin and roll out the dough to 9 inches (22.86 cm). Spread 1/4th of the apple mixture onto the dough, spreading it out to about 1/2" from the edges.
  6. Cut the circle into sixteen wedges, using a pizza cutter (or a very sharp big knife). Roll up each wedge from the wide end and place point down on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
  7. Bake for 17-20 minutes until lightly browned. Remove from oven and immediately put the rolls on a rack to cool. Repeat steps with the remaining dough packets.
  8. Prepare the glaze: combine the powdered sugar, milk, almond extract and vanilla and whisk until smooth. Add more milk if you want a thinner texture or more powdered sugar if you want it thicker. Spoon the glaze over the cooled butterhorns and let set.
  9. Store leftover butterhorns in a tightly sealed container, putting waxed paper between the layers.

Notes

Tips and Stuff:

Yes, the yeast goes directly into the flour and butter mixture without dissolving.  It works great.

If you'd rather make the butterhorns all in one day, refrigerate the dough at least four hours before rolling.

The original recipe has finely chopped pecans in the filling and sprinkled on top.  

You don't have to roll the butterhorns very tightly - they should be a little loose.

Nutrition Information:
Yield: 64 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 64Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 31mgCarbohydrates: 6gFiber: 0gSugar: 1gProtein: 1g
© Adapted from Taste of Home Baking
Category: Breakfast

Filed Under: All Recipes, Pies/Pastry/Puddings Tagged With: apple, butterhorns., crescent rolls, mini butterhorns, pastry, yeast rolls

Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars

February 6, 2014 by sblades Leave a Comment

Updated:  January 2022

My wonderful college friend, Jody, and I were chatting not too long ago and she told me about this great recipe she makes called Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars.

Whaaaaaaat?  How have I never heard of this?  She immediately messaged the ingredients and baking instructions and it sounds wonderful. 

Since Bret brought home a Costco-sized box of cream cheese, I’ve been looking for something good to make and boy, is this it!

slice of cheesecake bar on a white plate with a flowered background
I told Jody nonchalantly that I would try it soon and post it, but was already figuring out in my head which ingredients were on hand and how soon could I make it. 

There are only a few ingredients – crescent rolls, cream cheese, sugar, a little vanilla, and cinnamon.  Who would have thought such simple ingredients would make such an eye-rolling, delicious dessert!

After the first forkful, Bret looked at me and asked if I was going to give any of this away (kids, it’s fun to share), but I didn’t have any plans to.  He said that was good because it needed to stay here…all of it.

Long photo of slice of sopapilla cheesecake with orange flowers in the background. On a white plate.

Wow, I wish this recipe would have been in my files years ago.  Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars are incredible, easy to make, and I will forever thank Jody for bringing it into our lives (I know, dramatic, but true!).

That crunchy sugar/cinnamon top along with the creamy cheesecake filling combination will make you smile.

If you try any recipes from this site up to this point, I highly recommend this one. 

Hint:  you can make it a little lighter by using 1/3 fat Neufchatel cream cheese – it’s just as delicious.  Of course it still has the stick of butter drizzled on top, but the recipe definitely needs that!

Slice of Sopapilla Cheesecake Bar on a white plate

 

More wonderful recipes with cream cheese!

  • Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake  
  • Buffalo Cream Cheese Chicken  
  • Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Crescent Cookies

 

Slice of Sopapilla Cheesecake Bar on a white plate

Sopapilla Cheesecake

Yield: 20
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Inactive Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

The creamy cheesecake along with the buttery crust and crunch of baked cinnamon sugar is irresistible! 

Ingredients

  • 2 cans, (8 oz. each) refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
  • 2 pkgs., (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar, (divided)
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 C butter, melted
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
  2. Unroll one can of crescent rolls and gently spread on the bottom of an ungreased 13x9 glass baking dish.  Stretch it to cover the bottom evenly and pinch together the seams. 
  3. In a medium bowl, mix together the cream cheese, 1 cup of the sugar and the vanilla until creamy and mixed well.  Spread carefully and evenly over the dough in the pan. 
  4. Unroll the second roll of dough and gently lay it evenly on top of the cream cheese mixture, pinching together the seams.  Pour the melted butter evenly over the top layer of the dough.  Mix the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar with the cinnamon and sprinkle evenly over the butter mixture.
  5. Bake for 30 - 35 minutes or until center is set.  Cool for 20-30 minutes before serving warm.  Cover and refrigerate any remaining bars (if there ARE any leftovers..)

Notes

Tips and Stuff: Keep the rolls refrigerated until ready to spread in the pan - if they warm up at all, they will be difficult to spread evenly.

In an effort to lighten it up (!) I used 1 pkg. regular cream cheese and 1 pkg. of Neufchatel (1/3 less fat) cream cheese.  It was wonderful and next time might try using all Neufchatel.

I used a heaping teaspoon of really good Penzy's cinnamon.  It was perfect.

This is best eaten warm.  Microwave leftover servings for about 20 seconds after removing from refrigerator.  It was great with coffee, too, so it would be a good breakfast choice....Hey it has cheese, butter and crescents....why not?

Nutrition Information:
Yield: 20 Serving Size: 1 piece
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 125Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 74mgCarbohydrates: 17gFiber: 0gSugar: 15gProtein: 1g

Nutrition Values are Approximate

© sblades
Category: Cakes

Filed Under: All Recipes, Bars, Cakes Tagged With: cheesecake bars, cream cheese, crescent rolls, sopapilla cheesecake bars

Mountain Dew Apple Cobbler

November 30, 2013 by sblades Leave a Comment

 
Mountain Dew Apple Cobbler3

We spend Thanksgiving at my sister-in-law’s home every year – a wonderful tradition for over 25 years. Besides the wonderful dishes everyone brings, we get to visit with relatives we may not have seen for awhile. My in-laws are terrific people!

Something different this year – instead of turkey and a ham for the meat course, Bret’s sister asked him to make one of his great briskets along with his homemade BBQ sauce (I’ll post the brisket and BBQ sauce later.).

I like to lurk by the dessert table, looking to see what everyone brought. Someone has to taste test, right? I elect me.

This year our niece Jennifer brought this amazing Mountain Dew Apple Cobbler.  One bite and we swooned – really, it’s that good! 

Jennifer giggled and told me that the surprise ingredient is Mountain Dew poured over the top of the crescents before baking.  OK by me if it makes it taste that good!  Plus, think of all that caffeine from the Mountain Dew that will give you the stamina to make it through Thanksgiving with the family. Hmmm.

Mountain Dew Apple Cobbler

I’ll be making this delicious and easy Mountain Dew Apple Cobbler for the next upcoming pot luck! The flavors and textures are hard to describe, but I’ll try.

Delicious apple rolls with a delicious sweet sauce. You’ll be licking the plate – trust me.

Mountain Dew Apple Cobbler

Mountain Dew Apple Cobbler

Yield: 16
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 55 minutes

Unique, delicious rolls with a luscious sauce.

Ingredients

  • 2 large apples, , peeled, cored and sliced into 8 wedges each
  • 2, 8 oz cans of crescent rolls
  • 2 sticks butter
  • 1 1/2 Cups sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp cinnamon plus cinnamon to taste
  • 1, 12 oz can Mountain Dew soda

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Butter a 9x13" baking dish (glass dish).  
  2. Separate the crescent roll dough into eight triangles per can.
  3. Take the apple pieces, place into each crescent roll and roll up as usual into the crescent shape. Place each roll seam down into the baking dish.  
  4. In a saucepan, melt the butter. Whisk in the sugar, vanilla and cinnamon and remove from heat (sugar won't be entirely melted - that's the way you want it). Pour the butter mixture evenly over the crescents. Pour the Mountain Dew over the apple dumplings, filling to about one-third up the side of the baking dish.
  5. Sprinkle with a little cinnamon and bake 35-40 minutes until bubbly and lightly golden brown.

Notes

Tips and Stuff:

Use crisp tart-sweet apples (Granny Smith, Honey Crisp, Fuji), not Red Delicious so they won't get mushy.

There are a lot of variations of this recipe floating around out there.  Some say to pour the Mountain Dew directly on the crescents and some say to pour around the sides and down the middle.  Either way, they turn out great.

Be sure and don't completely melt the sugar in the butter because you want that texture on the crescents after baking.

Nutrition Information:
Yield: 16 Serving Size: 1 serving
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 207Total Fat: 12gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 31mgSodium: 103mgCarbohydrates: 26gFiber: 1gSugar: 25gProtein: 0g

Nutrition Values are Approximate

© sblades
Category: Dessert

Filed Under: All Recipes, Pies/Pastry/Puddings Tagged With: apple cobbler, crescent cobbler, crescent rolls, easy desserts, Mountain Dew, mountain dew cobbler

Creamy Chicken Pockets

October 23, 2013 by sblades Leave a Comment

It’s beginning to cool off here in North Texas and that always spurs me on to don the apron and start cooking.

Creamy Chicken Pockets are deconstructed, reconstructed chicken pot pie of sorts and have a delicious creamy chicken filling – what I consider a comfort food. It’s great as-is or add peas and carrots – maybe a little sautéed onion.

Serve these with a side of fruit or light green salad. Just tremendous! The whole family will love these little pockets of goodness.

chicken bundles large

I originally found this recipe from the Mr. Food series of recipes – remember those recipes through the mail?  They’d send you 5-10 recipe cards a month to fill in the “free” binder you got with the initial order? 

Yes, I fell for that a couple of times and ended up in an endless loop of paying for tons of recipes!

However, I did luckily collect a few really good recipes – this Creamy Chicken Pockets being one of them.

Creamy Chicken Pockets

Chicken Pockets

Yield: 4
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes

Delicious flaky crust filled with comforting, rich filling.

Ingredients

  • 3 oz pkg cream cheese, , softened
  • 3 Tbsp butter, , melted and divided
  • 2 C chopped cooked chicken
  • 2 Tbsp milk
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/8 tsp pepper
  • 1 8 oz can refrigerated crescent rolls
  • 1/4  C grated Parmesan cheese
  • Garlic salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350º.
  2. Combine cream cheese and 2 Tbsp. butter; stir in chicken, milk, salt and pepper. Set aside.
  3. Unroll crescent dough, separating into 4 big rectangles; press perforations to seal.
  4. Spoon 1/4 of chicken mixture into center of each rectangle; bring corners of each rectangle together over chicken mixture, and twist gently to seal.
  5. Brush tops of the packets with remaining 1 Tbsp. of butter, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and lightly with Garlic Salt (optional) and place on an ungreased baking sheet.
  6. Bake, uncovered at 350 for 22-25 minutes or until golden. Let cool for 2-3 minutes, then serve.

Notes

Tips and Stuff:

I use Neufchatel cream cheese (1/3 less fat), 2% milk and lite butter (Brummel and Brown - a great yogurt-based butter substitute) and these come out terrific and lower in calories and fat.

Keep the crescent rolls refrigerated until right before you stuff them.  If not, they get limp and are difficult to work with when creating the "pocket."

Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1 bundle
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 352Total Fat: 28gSaturated Fat: 14gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 117mgSodium: 562mgCarbohydrates: 5gFiber: 0gSugar: 2gProtein: 20g

Nutritional Values are Approximate.

© sblades
Category: Chicken/Poultry

Filed Under: All Recipes, Chicken/Poultry Tagged With: Chicken Bundles, Creamy Chicken, crescent rolls, easy dinner, Mr. Food

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