I’ve been getting recipes emailed to me from a website for a few years now that claims to “healthify” your favorite recipes into more calorie-conscious eats. Well, I look through them, print some, save some directly to my computer, and of course, cook none of them.
I too claim to make recipes healthier and tend to bake things with as many substitutions as humanly possible. So, I decided to rifle through some of the recipes and give one a try. I chose one from one of the more recent emails, an apple tarte. Of course…I didn’t make an apple tarte! Ha.
(Layer 1: Crust)
To start, I substituted a tarte pan for a pie pan. I continued the substitutions by whipping together cream cheese, margarine (instead of butter), oats, wheat flour, brown sugar, and almond meal (instead of ground pecans). I baked this for 10 min as the crust.
(Layer 2: Pumpkin Cream Cheese)
For the filling, instead of Greek yogurt, orange marmalade, and cream cheese, I mixed cream cheese, Greek yogurt, apple sauce, pumpkin, cinnamon and nutmeg. Yes, I made it a fall delight and the first mini step towards pumpkin pie time!
(Layer 3: Apples)
I topped the filled with thinly sliced apples and baked the whole thing for 45 minutes. It turned out toasty and tasting of a fall-time cheese cake! So yummy following a corn-flake chicken dinner.
P.S. Ever defrost a fridge/freezer? Ever own a fridge/freezer so old that it needed to be defrosted? Ever want to die because you spent 5 hours defrosting and bleaching out a fridge/freezer? I have!
