Apple Crescents

Don't forget, my super fun giveaway going on through Thursday...hurry and enter now!

This recipe comes from the cookbook included in my super fun giveaway. (it's possible that your definition of "super fun" may be a little different from mine, I lead a somewhat mundane life)

I modified the recipe a bit to try to make it a bit more calorie conscious.  I've gained a few pounds back and need to try to reign it in a bit.

That reminds me...have you seen this cool thing at Spark Recipes?  It's a recipe calculator where you can input all the ingredients from your recipe and it gives you the nutrition info per serving. I think this could come in pretty handy!

(according to their calculator, these have about 125 calories each after my substitutions)

I thought it looked like this crescent had a mouth, and so I got a little silly at Picnik.

In my opinion, these were delicious, the sauce was just right, and my house smelled like I'd been making apple pie all day!  

Here is the original recipe, with my changes in parentheses.  Also this makes 8 crescents, and I halved everything to just make 4.

Ingredients:

1 eight oz can refrigerated crescent rolls (used reduced fat)
2 granny smith apples, peeled and quartered

1 cup orange juice

1 1/4 cups sugar  (used splenda)

1/2 cup butter  (used butter buds dissolved in 1/4 cup water)

1 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.

Unroll crescents and separate.  Wrap each apple quarter with crescent. (I sprinkled cinnamon on each apple quarter before wrapping it)  Place each apple in sprayed 9x13 inch baking dish.

Combine orange juice, sugar, butter, and cinnamon in saucepan and bring to boil.

Pour over crescents and bake 30 minutes until golden and bubbly.