Way before it became hip for the masses to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, I have tried to plan a celebratory, festive, private party on May 5.
The Hubs and I have a “discussion” every year prior to May 5th and my party planning.
“What are we going to do to celebrate our anniversary?” (That would be me.)
“What are you talking about?” (That would be The Hubs.)
“Our anniversary—you know—the night we met,” I reply.
“Our anniversary is in December. You can’t count this as an anniversary,” is his comeback.
“Oh, yes I can!”
I will save you from the rest of the “discussion.”
The truth is that I do count this as an anniversary. It was fate that we met. We actually met through mutual friends that accidentally ran into each other that night and introduced us. Fateful as well was the fact that it was two days before my sister’s wedding. (OK, I may be reaching on the connection there, but I always felt like her wedding marked the beginning of our relationship.)
Anyhoo, what does this have to do with Cinco de Mayo and Holiday Recipe Club?
Just the fact that one of the “secret ingredients” for this holiday’s post is Dulce de Leche. My husband’s favorite dessert is apple pie. I decided to meld the two together for a Cinco de Mayo/faux anniversary celebration and see if I couldn’t bring him over.
Hope you enjoy!
The first thing you need to do for this recipe is to make your Dulce de Leche.
I found a great technique at Natasha’s Kitchen for making Dulce de Leche in a crock pot. Natasha, who blogs about all foodie things Russian and Ukrainian, says that “We Ukrainians have been making cooked sweetened condensed milk (guschonka) for years, but who knew we were actually making dulce de leche?” For her great tips and techniques, click here.
Apple Pie with Dulce de Leche
Or “By God we are celebrating an anniversary tonight along with Cinco de Mayo” pie.4-5 Jonagold apples
1 T. fresh lime juice
1/2 t. balsamic vinegar
1/3 c. sugar
3 T. flour
1/2 t. cinnamon
1 dash freshly ground nutmeg
1/4 t. salt
1 recipe of Dulce de Leche (see here)
2 prepared pie crust rounds (I used my favorite whole wheat pie crust recipe from mom.)
1 T. milk (optional)
1 t. cinnamon sugar (optional)Peel, core and thinly slice apples. (I use the food processor to get even slices.) Combine the lemon juice and vinegar. Pour over apples and toss to combine. Mix the sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add dry ingredients to the apples and toss again to coat apples.
Place bottom pie crust in pie tin. Place one layer of apples in crust. Spread this layer with the Dulce de Leche.
Top with remaining apples and top crust. Crimp edges and cut vents in top crust.
Brush with milk and sprinkling of cinnamon sugar (optional).
Bake in 375 degree oven for 45 minutes.
Here’s to our faux nineteenth anniversary and Happy Cinco de Mayo!
I will never make normal apple pie again – dulce de leche is my new best friend and you my hero 😀
What an amazing dessert celebration!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thanks, CCU. I think you should experiment with dulce de leche. I can’t even imagine what you could dream up!
Happy faux nineteenth anniversary! I’m already a fan of apple pie, but throw caramel on there (no matter what language you say it in) and I’m sold. It looks amazing. I’ll have to go check out the whole wheat pie crust. That looks delicious too.
Thanks! I am now totally and officially in love with dulce de leche and this easy technique (and The Hubs!).
This looks amazing,and I know my hubby would LOVE this! Thanks for sharing – perfect pick!
Thanks for stopping by, Pam! (Do you remember the old Ranch Style Bean Brand that back in the day had the ad line, “They’re husband pleasin’?” I don’t know why I just thought of that except The Hubs loved this pie!) 🙂
Luckily, our anniversary of meeting and our wedding anniversary are only a few days apart. Which means we get to party for a solid week. 😀
Also, my wife adores apple pies, but I never make them. I’m going to surprise her next month with this one!
I hope she loves this pie as much as The Hubs. Let me know!
Happy fateful meeting day anniversary! 🙂
Thanks. We really did have this exact same discussion this morning at breakfast! (Every year it is the same thing.) 🙂
Yum! Your pie looks amazing!!! Happy Anniversary to the first day you met!!!
Bravo, bravo! I love it–dulce de leche and apples were just meant to be. <3 How nice that you get to have two anniversary celebrations every year! 🙂
I think everyone should have two anniversaries, dontcha think?
Everyone knows that these types of anniversaries count … Would you like me to tell him? 🙂
I would LOVE for you to tell him. Maybe he will listen to you!
WOW! This must be one fabulous apple pie!! Yeah, my hubby would give me that “you’re crazy” look if I wanted to celebrate the day we met…unless he knew I’d make one of his favorites (like pie!)for the occasion 🙂 Happy anniversary of your special day!
Thanks, Liz. I think I have found a way to make him celebrate with me!
Apple pie is my favorite too but I’ve never made one like this. Delicious!
We celebrate the day we met too and we have two dates. I was in Florida and it was September 13th and he was in Australia and it was September 14th. Thankfully he joins in and we celebrate for two days. 🙂
Wow–you complicated it even more by including the international date line. I am impressed that he joins in and you have two days of celebrating!
Yum! I made mini dulce de leche apple pies in the fall and loved the combo! I think it’s so funny with you are your hubs…sounds like me talking to my bf! I am glad you were able to join us for cinco de mayo 🙂
Glad I finally got back to HRC, Erin! Already planning for a queen’s tea! 🙂
What an amazing combo! I would’ve never thought to add dulce de leche to apple pie. It’s genius!
Well, I wouldn’t go that far, but thank you. 🙂
I do my dulce de leche on the stove but a crockpot would be cool to try. Apples and caramel and great together…now I think dulce de leche and apples, duh why didn’t I think of that..next time!
I had a little dulce de leche left over in the jar and a few raw apples that didn’t quite fit in the pie. I scraped that jar clean, I tell ya’!
Oh so drooling over here!!! My fav dessert everrr w/ dulce de leche! Yes please!!! He better recognize the anniversary after that slice of heaven! Looks incredible!
He did recognize the day! Now it will ever be known as Dulce de Leche Apple Pie Day. (I can’t win!) 🙂 Actually, we celebrated in a very nice way. (See Monday’s post.) Thanks for the comment!
Genius!! Glad you combined these together, what a delicious idea! Now if husband doesn’t want to celebrate your anniversary with this, give me a call – I would be happy to sub for him.
Look at my most recent post. Got him to celebrate!!!!!
What a yummy looking pie. I’m all about celebrating ANY anniversary! Hubby of 36 years was a blind date–his dad lined us up!
I love it!
oh my god this is brilliant! i need to try this!
Wow adding dulce de leche to an apple pie is definitely a good idea!
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That’s a perfect apple pie! Although we don’t really celebrate this (I’m from Belarus), I find it interesting that my Latino neighbors share this to us during Cinco de Mayo. Happy times.
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