Dallas Dreams of Cinnamon Roll Apple Pie

 Well, another tough week for pies in the Smith household. First I should mention, we have decided as a family to start making pies every other week.  This was a health decision.  Eating a whole pie every week turns out is not super good for you.  Plus Amy really love cookies, so it was not good when I would make a pie every week, and then Amy would ALSO make cookies. So we trade off, I get a pie one week, then Amy gets a week to make whatever she wants.  In addition to trading off, we are making a greater effort to share our pies with people we know, take some of the calories off of us.

This was my week on, and we decided on a pie which seemed like a good idea, a cinnamon roll apple pie.  This pictures on the website look really cool.  But (1) When I made the pie, it didn't look that great and (2) I just though I would have been better off making a regular apple pie for taste.  

As for as looks, I feel like I was on that show "Nailed it", when they have people try to bake beautiful "pintrest-esque" treats, and then they make fun of how horrible their treat look in comparison.  I mean the cinnamon roll crust kind of worked, but my top was not anywhere near as beautiful as the pictures I was trying emulate on THIS website. 

And for the taste, the crust was still just a regular pie crust just made to LOOK LIKE cinnamon rolls, not actual cinnamon rolls.  This means it was just extra sugar.  And the top also had a bunch of extra sugar, and the icing drizzle was even more extra sugar.  It was a SUPER sugary pie, too much.  Needless to say, I don't think I'm going to try this one again.