Cooking with Asia

1st layer

½ cup margarine

⅓ cup white sugar

½ tsp. vanilla

1 cup flour

Cream together margarine, sugar and vanilla. Then mix in flour. Spread on bottom of 8X8” pan.

2nd layer

8 oz. cream cheese

½ cup white sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

Cream together cream cheese, white sugar, and vanilla. Spread evenly over 1st layer.

3rd layer

4 – 5 apples

⅓ cup white sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

½ cup sliced almonds

Peel and core apples, slice thinly. Place sliced apples in a medium sized bowl. In a small bowl mix together sugar and cinnamon. Add cinnamon mixture to the apples and mix together. Put apples on cheese layer, sprinkle ¼ cup of sliced almonds over top. Bake at 450ºF for 10 min. Turn oven down to 400ºF for 25 minutes.

Source: Ms. Mann

 When I was reading over this recipe before we were going to make it I was excited because I saw that it pretty much had the same cream cheese stuff that we had in the fruit pizza. I really liked the cream cheese spread we used in this recipe and overall I really liked this recipe. In our kitchen Maricar was cutting and peeling the apples and I think that she did a really good job cutting the apples into uniform slices. Another thing that went well in our kitchen was that Makayla really flattened out and smoothed out the dough in the pan. Even the guys across us in the kitchen were amazed and they thought that Mrs.Sutter did it but when they found out Makayla did it they kept asking her how she made it so well. When I was smoothing out the cream cheese I was having trouble and it was lifting off from the dough. That and the fact that we put a tablespoon of cinnamon instead of a teaspoon was the only thing that we did wrong. If I ever make this again I'll make sure I measure the ingredients properly and I'll cool the dough before I put on the cream cheese like you suggested. A skill that I incorporated into this cooking lab from class was how to peel an apple with a knife because when I helped peel apples it was easy because I actually knew what I was doing.