Cooking is just as much a passion as photography is for me and getting creative is always fun.  My kids love helping out and REALLY enjoy eating the goods once their done.  The best part is getting them to help me. 

Whitney and I wanted to smoke an apple pie to go with or dinner but we decided to try something different.  We still have not decided on a recipe name so suggestions would be helpful.

Here are the ingredients:

• 8 apples - whatever kind you like granny smith works best though
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 3 Tablespoons of cinnamon
• 1 Teaspoon of nutmeg
• PreMade refrigerated pie crust

Generally you would do this in the last couple hours of BBQ for the day.  I don't know why you would want smoked apples without a bunch of BBQ chicken, ribs and other goods to go along side it.  The smoker can be relatively hot (around 250 to 300) degrees.  Once you are there than start getting the apples ready.

First you want to peel and core your apples.  We use this handy dandy apple peeler.

Mix the sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg in a bowl and roll each apple completely coating them. 

Set the apples aside and roll out your pie dough.  Cut the dough into four pieces.

Take each piece and wrap the apples with the dough. 

Set the apples on a pan with the exposed apple side down.  Make sure and use a pan or glass dish you don't mind roughing up a bit.  It will get rather nasty in the smoker. 

Since this was a test recipe we first tried to cook the apples in our little pot smoker. 

Unfortunately it was going to take too long for the smoker to get to temperature so we moved it to the big smoker.  Cooke the apples on the hot side of your smoker for about one hour.  Most smoked pies work best with a fruit or nut wood.  We use Cherry, Apple and Pecan wood for the process. 

We also threw in a real apple pie.  Some people don't believe me that I smoke pies but here is proof.  They are delicious and top off any great BBQ meal.

When the apples are done the crust will look golden brown.  This is the same for the pie.  Remove from the smoker and let sit a few minutes.

These little nuggets of happiness ROCKED.  Our neighbors came by and tried them out just to confirm they were as super-ramma-lamma-ding-dong good as we thought.   They may send you to the hospital if you add ice cream to them so be careful!

Oh and the Apple pie kicked butt too!

So try it out for yourself and let us know what you think.  It is a ridiculously easy recipe that kids can help with.