Apple Nut Ring

This is another recipe from Pampered Chef that I made all the time at my kitchen shows and at home. It's easy and really inexpensive and again, everybody loves it. I always use generic biscuits and they are just fine. The recipe calls for a Pampered Chef Deep Dish Baker, but you could probably use a metal or glass pan. It doesn't even need to be round. The recipe states to bake for 25 - 30 minutes at 400°.  That's way too long for my oven, it takes about 19 minutes for them to bake at my house. Watch them carefully after about 15 minutes to make sure they don't overcook. I don't use raisins because I don't really like them. I use almonds for the nuts because I love them and it's my kitchen, so I use almonds. You could use walnuts or pecans or almonds or whatever nut you like.

2 tubes refrigerator biscuits 
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted - I use margarine 

3/4 cup sugar  

1 T cinnamon
2 medium granny smith apples, peeled, cored and sliced thin
1/3 cup chopped nuts

1/4 cup raisins
Preheat oven to 400°.  Separate biscuits into 20 pieces.  Combine sugar and cinnamon. Dip biscuits into melted butter, then roll in sugar mixture.  Arrange biscuits in a single layer in baking dish. Place an apple slice between each biscuit and around outer edge of baking dish. Mix nuts and raisins with remaining sugar mixture and sprinkle over top. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes or until golden brown.

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Apple Nut Ring

I have these handy gadgets that make this recipe easier to prepare. You might have these cluttering up your kitchen and you never use them, now you know what to do with them.

Apple/Peeler/Corer/Slicer 

My grandma had one of these! That's how long they've been around. The stand doesn't come with the APCS, but the APCS will attach to a counter top, or a table tob. I love my stand, but I could live without it. You need to use firm apples with the APCS, Granny Smith are perfect.

This is a Zyliss cheese grater and it works great for grinding nuts.  The recipe uses chopped nuts, and I use them sometimes, but I mostly use grated nuts. My grandma had one of these, too! Hers was metal and it had three different drums, I don't think it was Zyliss.  I loved that thing for grating cheese. It makes me feel close to my grandma when I use these gadgets. She loved gadgets.