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Now that Halloween is over and the holiday season is upon us, we found a recipe that will put all those leftover apples leftover from your apple picking trip to good use. These hot buttered rum apple pie-stuffed cinnamon sugar soft pretzels (saying that is literally a mouthful) are a perfect seasonal treat to fill the void between Halloween candy and Thanksgiving pumpkin pie. And if you couldn't tell, we're really into stuffed desserts; it's kind of like getting two treats in one bite, like these crazy good stuffed waffles.
Half Baked Harvest's recipe for these apple pie-stuffed pretzels requires making your own bread dough with yeast, but if you're short on time, you can substitute a store-bought dough like Pillsbury pizza crust. We even used crescent roll dough for this apple recipe, which did not disappoint.
The filling for the pretzels is pretty straightforward. All you have to do is combine chopped apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, butter, and nutmeg in a hot skillet. Once the apples are caramelized, add dark rum and vanilla, and soak up that incredible apple pie smell while everything simmers for a few more minutes. Whether you decide to use homemade or readymade dough, roll it out into rectangles and spoon a row of the apple filling on each one. The recipe has super-helpful instructions for shaping the dough into classic twisted pretzels, which will take around 25 minutes in the oven.
When they're finished baking, brush the pretzels with melted butter and sprinkle cinnamon, sugar, and a little bit of salt on top. If you want to go full-on fall, top the warm pretzels with this boozy walnut ice cream, or if you're more of a traditionalist, you can never go wrong with homemade vanilla ice cream. This combo of savory pretzel dough, booze-infused apple filling, and melty ice cream is almost too good to be true. Almost.
Get the full recipe at Half Baked Harvest.
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