Happy Halloween!

What best to have fun ending of October than celebrating Halloween ?
Cooking, activities, decoration, colors... lots of ideas in the web! Just to keep track of what is in my blog let's recapitulate...


Have fun cooking butternut soups, halloween cookies, mini apple pies or just apple pie like this one, this one or this one.

Decorate your house entrance with jack-o-lanterns, following my son's short tutorial in the numbered photos (no1 is missing as it is about choosing your pumkin's face :)


Make fake injuries with makeup and scare your friends (not my favorite though!) like this homemade one from my kids...

Whatever you prefer, just try to get with friends and/or family and have fun and enjoy life!

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Milopitakia, greek mini apple pies or cookies

October, the month of apples!

That's why I decided to present you today a recipe that was missing from my blog and that I like a lot: milopitakia!

Milopitakia, in greek, means mini apple pies but they are actually more kind of apple-filled cookies to be more precise.

Whatever you call them, I am sure that you will like them once you taste them, so here it goes in order to have them for real at your place :)

They look gorgeous too, no?



Ingredients (for about 30 pieces):
Dough:
500 gr self-raising flour
1 cup of butter (cut in pieces) or softened margarine or oil (whatever you prefer or have)
1/2 cup of plain strained yogurt or white dry wine
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Filling:
4 baking/cooking apples (peeled & coarsely grated)
1 cup of walnuts (coarsely chopped)
2 spoons of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon (as you like)
1/4 teaspoon of clove powder (optional)

Top:
Powdered sugar and cinnamon

Procedure:

Prepare the dough by kneading by hand softly the ingredients (flour, butter, salt, yogurt or wine).

Mix the filling ingredients in another bowl with a spoon.

Make 30 dough balls in the size of ping-pong balls and with your finger press in the middle to make a hole and add with a spoon some filling. Close the dough to cover the filling.

Finish in the same way all the dough.

Bake at 180 degrees of Celsius and fan for about 35 min.  Your apple pies/cookies are ready... Enjoy!

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