Name: Giant Apple Napoleon
Ingredients: 1 17 1/2 oz. package frozen puff pastry sheets,thawed; 1 lg Egg; 1 tb Water; 1 3.5 package vanilla instant pudding mix; 2 c Whipping cream; 1/4 c Butter or margarine; 5 lg Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced; 1 c Sugar; 1 ts Ground cinnamon; Powdered sugar

If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

C.S. Lewis

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits, Eggs, Dairy		Desserts, Christmas, Holidays, Fruits	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		17 1/2 oz. package frozen puff pastry sheets,thawed
1	lg	Egg
1	tb	Water
1		3.5 package vanilla instant pudding mix
2	c	Whipping cream
1/4	c	Butter or margarine
5	lg	Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced
1	c	Sugar
1	ts	Ground cinnamon
		Powdered sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

Unfold pastry sheets on baking sheets; press out fold lines.  Stir together
egg and 1 tablespoon water; brush on pastry sheets.
Bake at 400&deg;F for 15 minutes or until golden.  Cool on wire racks.
Beat pudding mix and whipping cream at medium speed with an electric mixer
2 minutes.  Cover and chill 30 minutes.
Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add apple slices, sugar,
and cinnamon.  Cook, stirring constantly, 10 minutes or until tender;
drain.
Spread pudding over 1 pastry sheet; top with apple mixture.  Place
remaining pastry sheet over apple slices; sprinkle with powdered sugar
Note: Bake puff pastry the day before; assemble Napoleon the following day.
Yield: 8 servings.  Typed in MMFormat by cjhartlin@email.msn.com Source:
Southern Living Magazine Nov. 99
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest  by "Cindy Hartlin" <cjhartlin@email.msn.com>
on Dec 3, 1999

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