This recipe is a fun little treat during fall, when a lot of people go to apple orchards and pumpkin patches.
I love this recipe because it takes a little patience, but is great once mastered.  It always makes me think of apple picking during the summer at my aunt’s house.
Another fun thing about this recipe is the many ways it can be customized.
If you want caramel apples, add some caramel chips, chopped fine before baking or drizzle on some caramel ice cream topping after baking.
This works for chocolate too.
I like to make my own a puff pastry because I have several friends who do not eat gluten. If you do not feel like researching gluten-free recipes, you can always find a health store to buy it pre-made.
Now, and this is important, if you are one of the many freaks in this world who puts cheese on apple pie (I have met quite a few, and while I personally do not get it, to each his own) put the cheese on last.
If you put cheese on before baking, it will burn and you will have a gross mess that is hard to clean up. Burned cheese bakes into whatever dish you have used, and can only be cleaned off through soaking and vigorous scrubbing.
So, if you do not like a ton of work or dirty dishes, do not burn the cheese.
Add any other toppings that do not need to be mixed into the batter when the apple pie bites are cooling, but are still hot.
Instead of adding nuts, some of you might want to add peanut butter, cookie butter or hazelnut spread. For those three, I would recommend mixing a teaspoon into the batter and going from there, or adding it to the puff pastry on top of the apples, before they get rolled up.
Play with this recipe.
It is filling and kind of healthy. After all, it has apples, which are a fruit.
Most importantly, this recipe is convenient. Most people will already have several of the ingredients. For me, the biggest turnoff of a recipe is when I need to buy more than three ingredients to make it. You inevitably have some of the ingredients left over, but not enough to make the recipe again. Luckily, that is not something you will have to deal with here.
The only things most of you will have to buy are the apples. And, let us be honest, we should all be buying more produce anyway.