Seventeen years ago, THIS was how we celebrated my sister "Sonny's" (Allison's) birthday:
Well, today she's the big 1-8, and I would be remiss if I did not give her a
birthday shout out!
Since she's living in Nebraska for the next month (though SOON to become an Okie transplant, like moi!), and I can't be there to celebrate her today, I'm doing the next best thing (cyberly speaking): PHOTOS of cupcakes!
The following cupcakes are from my "Abbi-Gail Adventure." Yeah, remember that? It's been awhile. These are recipe #96, Strudel Cups:
The ingredients for Strudel Cups are pretty basic: (that's melted butter in the bowl)
Phyllo dough is a funny thing. It's pretty much like edible tissue paper. Very strange. I'd never worked with it before, and that was my first impression of it while it was raw...it's Kleenex-like.
First, you cut the phyllo dough into fourths, cram a piece of it into a sprayed muffin tin, and brush a layer of melted butter on it.
And repeat.
And repeat.
And repeat several more times, in several more muffin cups.
Add some lemon juice to your chopped apples,
...some cinnamon,
...some sugar,
...some chopped walnuts,
some ground almonds and golden raisins, and give it all a good stir!
Fill each muffin cup with a heapin' helpin' of the strudel filling.
And bake until golden.
Once these were baked, I removed them (carefully!) from the tins and placed each one on a bright red muffin paper to give them a little pizzazz! Easy, though, not many of us would consider this truly a "cupcake."
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SEESTER!! I LOVE YOU!!!
When I see you again, we shall bake! :)