Apple Praline Cups Food

PRALINE APPLE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F; grease a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
• Using an electric mixer on low speed, beat together the granulated sugar, sour cream, eggs, and vanilla until combined; raise speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes.
• In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, nutmeg, baking powder, soda, and salt; gradually add to sugar/sour cream mixture on low speed until combined.
• By hand, stir in the chopped apple and 1/2 cup of the pecans.
• Turn batter into the greased loaf pan; sprinkle with the remaining chopped pecans and press nuts lightly into the batter.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven for 55 to 60 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean; if bread is turning too brown, cover top of the bread loosely with foil for the last 10 minutes.
• Let cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• While bread is cooling, in a small saucepan over medium-high heat combine the butter and brown sugar and cook, stirring, until mixture comes to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer gently for 1 minute to make caramel topping.
• Remove bread from pan; drizzle top with the caramel and let cool.
• Serve and enjoy!
• Recipe collected from Gail's Recipe Swap.

APPLE PRALINE DESSERT CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease an 8-in square baking pan.
• Cream together the 1 cup sugar with the 1/4 cup butter in a bowl.
• Add in the egg and apples; mix well.
• Sift together the dry ingredients.
• Add to creamed mixture; mix well; stir in nuts.
• Bake for 30 minutes, or until the cake tests done.
• FOR SAUCE: Melt the 1/4 cup butter in a saucepan.
• Add the cream and mix well until blended.
• Combine the sugar and the 1 tbsp flour to the butter/cream mixture; mix well until thickened, over low heat.
• Add in vanilla, mix well.
• Serve warm over the apple dessert.

APPLE PRALINE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a bowl, combine apples, sugar, flour, apple pie spice and salt; toss lightly.
• Put one of the pie crusts in a pie pan, then spoon mixture into pastry lined pan.
• Dot with butter.
• Top with second crust; seal and flute edges. Cut vents in several places.
• Bake 50-55 minutes or until apples are tender and crust is lightly browned.
• Remove from oven and cool slightly while making the Praline topping.
• Praline Topping:
• In a small saucepan melt butter.
• Stir in brown sugar and cream.
• Heat to boiling; remove from heat and add pecans.
• Spread topping on top of baked pie.
• Place pie on a baking sheet and return to oven.
• Bake in oven for 5 minutes or until the topping is bubbling.
• Remove pie from oven and cool pie at least 1 hour before serving.

PECAN PRALINE LACE COOKIES, CUPS, AND CORONETS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a small bowl, combine the pecans and flour. In a small saucepan, combine the butter, sugar, and corn syrup. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir the dry ingredients into a pan. Transfer the batter to a bowl and stir occasionally until it thickens into a dough and is cool enough to handle, about 25 minutes.
• With moistened hands, roll the dough into various size balls, depending on whether you're making cookies, cups or coronets (see below). Place on ungreased baking sheets, 3 to 7 inches apart, depending on size-they spread quite a bit. Bake about 12 minutes, or until the active bubbling subsides. Place the baking sheet on rack and let cool until the cookies are firm enough to lift with a flexible metal spatula but are still malleable, 3 to 5 minutes. Working quickly, mold each into shape and set on a wire rack to cool completely. If the cookies get too cool and brittle to mold, put the try back in the oven for a minute to soften.
• To make 9 dessert bowls: With moistened hands, mold each ball using a rounded tablespoon of dough. Place only 2 balls on the ungreased baking sheet. Have 2 small soup bowls measuring 4 1/2 to 5-inches across the top ready by the oven. Follow the baking instruction above. When set but still malleable, lift the cookies, one at a time, and place each in a bowl, nutty, bumpy side up. Gently press the bottom to flatten. The sides will ruffle prettily. Wipe the excess butter off the baking sheet and continue with the remaining dough. If you have more than 1 baking sheet, stagger the baking so that you can mold 1 tray while the other is in the oven.
• Fill with butterscotch ice cream, pumpkin mousse, bananas and cream, or anything that strikes your fancy and goes well with pecans.
• To make 9 ice cream cones: Follow the baking instructions above for dessert bowls, but when you lift a cookie off the baking sheet, roll it into a cone with the nutty, bumpy side facing out, and hold it for a few seconds to set. Lay it on the cooling rack, seam side down, and place a cylindrical object, such as a pill bottle, in the opening to set until you roll the next cookie.
• Fill with scoops of any flavor ice cream or sorbet that complements pecans.
• To make 18 coronets: With moistened hands, mold rounded teaspoons of the dough into balls. Place about 9 balls on an ungreased baking sheet. Follow the baking instructions for ice-cream cones; you're making a smaller version of the same. Repeat with a second tray.
• Fill with mousse, ice cream, or berries and cream. Place a little dab of cream on the plate to anchor the coronets, and place 1 or 2 coronets on each plate with fruit sauce or hot fudge spilling out of the opening.
• To make 24 cookies: With moistened hands, mold level teaspoons of dough into balls. Place about 12 balls on an ungreased baking sheet. Follow the instructions above. When the cookies are set but still flexible, transfer to a cooling rack. Repeat with a second tray.
• To make 24 cigarettes: Follow the baking instructions for cookies, but when you lift a cookie off the baking sheet, roll it around a chopstick or the handle of a wooden spoon. Lay it on the cooling rack, seam side down. If the cookies get too brittle to mold, put the baking sheet back in the oven for a minute to soften them. To dip the ends in melted chocolate, immerse 1 end of a cookie, then the other, shake off the excess chocolate, and dip the end into a small bowl of grated chocolate.
• Lay it on a sheet pan lined with parchment or waxed paper. When all the cookies are dipped, place the tray in the refrigerator for 5 to 10 minutes, just until the chocolate sets.

PRALINE APPLE BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 9x5-inch loaf pan with shortening; lightly flour. Spread 1/2 cup of the pecans in ungreased shallow pan. Bake 6 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until light brown.
• In medium bowl, beat sour cream, granulated sugar, eggs and vanilla with electric mixer on low speed 2 minutes. Beat in flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt just until blended. Stir in apples and toasted pecans. Spoon batter into pan. Sprinkle with remaining 1 cup pecans; lightly press pecans into batter.
• Bake 1 hour to 1 hour 5 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, covering with foil during last 15 minutes to prevent overbrowning, if necessary. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack.
• In 1-quart heavy saucepan, heat butter and brown sugar to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly; boil 1 minute. Spoon glaze over top of bread. Cool completely, about 2 hours.

PRALINE APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F Line the bottom of a 9" springform pan with parchment, and butter the pan.
• Cream the sugar and beat in the eggs, one at a time, and the vanilla.
• Sift the flour and baking powder into the butter and sugar.
• Beat them in to form a smooth batter.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared springform pan.
• Wet your hands and pat it evenly into the pan.
• Mix the cinnamon and sugar.
• Peel the apples and cut them into thin slices.
• Toss them in the cinnamon sugar and push them, on end, into the batter.
• At first they will seem to be sticking very far out of the batter, but the apples will make the level rise as you go.
• When all the apples are in- pack them in there- press them down slightly, so none stick out more than 1/2".
• Sprinkle any remaining cinnamon sugar over the top.
• Bake the cake for 45 minutes.
• Meanwhile, cream the remaining butter and sugar, and beat in the remaining egg.
• Spread this over the top of the cake and bake for 15 minutes more.