Fall in Love With These Baking Recipes!

Gigi Kim

Caramel Apple Puff Pastries Recipe (by The Little Blog Of Vegan)

Make these easy and delicious vegan (optional), gluten-free, no-dairy caramel apple puff pastries for all the flavors of the autumn season!

Ingredients:

2 sheets of puff pastry (vegan options available)

30g caster/granulated sugar

2 heaping teaspoons of ground or sweet cinnamon

4 large apples

Milk/dairy-free milk

Caramel sauce/vegan caramel sauce

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350°F and line 2 baking trays.

Flatten puff pastry sheets, and cut out strips of the pastry 1/2 inch thick. With leftover pastry, use leaf cookie cutters to create leaf shapes.

In a bowl, mix together the sugar and cinnamon.

Cut each apple into thick slices and use an apple corer to cut out a circle in the middle. Coat in cinnamon sugar.

Wrap the pastry strips around each apple slice, using milk to stick.

Brush the tops with milk, stick on leaf decorations and sprinkle more cinnamon sugar.

Place the pastries on lined baking trays and bake for 12-15 minutes until golden brown. Once baked, remove from the oven and cool the pastries on the tray.

Serve with caramel sauce! Enjoy!

Taylor Swift Chai Cookies Recipe

Obsessed with Taylor Swift? Try her yummy chai cookie recipe and cozy up with a side of Gilmore Girls!

Ingredients:

½ cup unsalted butter, softened

½ cup vegetable oil

½ cup granulated sugar (+ more for topping)

½ powdered sugar

1 large egg

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

⅓ teaspoon salt

1 chai tea bag

Glaze

½ cup powdered sugar

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

¼ teaspoon cinnamon

2 tablespoons milk or eggnog

Instructions:

In a mixing bowl or stand mixer, cream the butter until fluffy. Mix in the oil until it is thoroughly combined, then add sugar, powdered sugar, egg and vanilla extract. Add chai leaves from the bag and mix.

Mix in flour, baking soda and salt. Place the bowl in the fridge and allow the dough to chill for 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 350°F before removing the dough from the fridge. Using a cookie scoop, portion the dough into tablespoon-sized balls, slightly flatten and place on a baking sheet. Sprinkle the tops with sugar. Bake the cookies for 8-12 minutes until golden. Remove the cookies from the oven, and allow them to cool on the baking sheet for 15 minutes.

Whisk together the powdered sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and milk. Spoon the glaze onto the cooled cookies. Enjoy!

Happy baking!