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Desserts
American
Makes 36 tarts
40 minutes
25 minutes
3 1/2 cups Melissa’s Cranberry Clean Snax® – crushed
4 ½ tablespoons Unsalted Butter – melted
2 tablespoons Melissa’s Organic Blue Agave Nectar
1 Melissa’s Seedless Lemon
2 pounds Granny Smith Apples
1/3 cup Granulated sugar
1/4 cup Unsalted Butter
1/4 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
Pinch Ground Nutmeg
1 pound Fresh Pineapple Chunks
In a mixing bowl, combine the Clean Snax®, butter and the agave. Press equal amounts of the mixture into 36 paper muffin cups Inserted Into a muffin tin(s). Make sure to press the mixture up the sides of the cups as well. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes, remove them and set aside.
Squeeze the lemon juice into a mixing bowl. Peel, core and small dice the apples and toss with the lemon juice and the sugar.
In a sauté pan, melt the butter. Add the apple bowl contents and bring to a simmer. Sauté for 2 minutes. Cover and reduce heat to low. Cook for 6 minutes or until the apples begin to soften. Strain the apples into a bowl to retain the liquid. Return the liquid to the sauté pan and simmer until thickened, about 8-10 minutes.
Add the apples, spices and pineapple chunks to the pan, stir and remove from the heat to cool.
Once the filling has cooled, Place equal parts into the muffin cups. Place into the refrigerator to chill.
