📋Cosmic Caramel Apple Pie and Cheddar Bites

apple pie and cheddar bites on a black serving tray

5 from 7 votes

📋Cosmic Caramel Apple Pie and Cheddar Bites

Made with the new Cosmic Crisp apple that's remarkably firm, crisp and naturally slow to brown, these Cosmic Caramel Apple Pie & Cheddar Bites are a quick, easy, sweet and savoury, healthy apple pie bite! Mini whole wheat pitas are slathered in butter, cinnamon and sugar and baked for a few minutes then topped Cosmic Crisp apples and cheddar cheese and drizzled with a caramel sundae sauce. They make a great healthy snack, breakfast or dessert and are perfect for sending along in the lunch bag. And they are also Weight Watchers friendly at 3 WW points on the blue plan!

Course breakast, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American, Canadian, North American

Keyword apple pie, healthy, healthy apple snack

Special Diet Vegetarian

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 4

Total Time 24

Servings servings

Calories 57kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Ingredients

12 mini pita breads
1.5 tablespoon butter, melted
¾ tablespoon cinnamon
2 tablespoon sugar
12 pieces low-fat cheddar cheese
2 Cosmic Crisp apples

Garnish:

2 tablespoon caramel sundae sauce, drizzled
additional cinnamon sugar, sprinkled as desired

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F /175 C and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or spray with non-stick cooking spray.
Poke hole in each mini pita with toothpick and gently press air out. * Don't worry if they crack
Press fork around rim to look like pie, then flip over and do it on the other side (you need to press firm)
Spread melted butter on each side of each mini pita with a pastry brush, dividing evenly by all mini pitas.
Mix cinnamon and sugar together in a small bowl.
Sprinkle about ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon sugar on each side of the pita bread, reserving remaining cinnamon sugar for garnish.
Cook for 2 minutes, then flip, cook for an additional 2 minutes.
Wash apples and slice about ¼ inch thick.
Remove core with end of an apple corer or with a small round cutter.
Cut each apple slice in half.
Cut cheese into shapes with small round (cut round pieces in half for moon shapes) and star cutters , if desired. Try to get as many shapes out of one piece of cheese as you can. In most cases, I was able to get 2 shapes out of one small square. * Or you can simply cut in small square pieces.

Assembly

Place a cooked mini whole wheat pita on a flat surface, such as a cutting board.
Add 4 pieces of apple, overlapping and slightly twisting each piece, as shown.
Add 2-3 cheese shapes (or 1-2 squares of cheese).
Push a long toothpick through the cheese at the top of the apple pie bite, all the way down to through the mini pita.
Repeat steps for all 12 apple bites.

Garnish

Fill a small ziplock bag with caramel sundae sauce and cut off a small piece of the corner end (about 1/16 of an inch)
Drizzle caramel sundae sauce over apple bites in a quick, back and forth motion.
Sprinkle apple pie bites with additional cinnamon sugar.
Serve. * If not serving immediately, cover in plastic wrap or place in an airtight container and store in fridge for up to 24 hours.
**NOTE: I took this photo (below) with my phone 24 hours after making this recipe! They had been out for 3 hours while I was making them, then photographing, then I put them in the fridge for the remainder of the 24 hour period. The brown you see on the apple pieces is from the cinnamon. There is very small amount of browning around the core part of the apple pieces, but you can't see it because it's covered.