Michelle Obama's Overnight Apple Cobbler {Happy Presidents Day}

Last night I made Michelle Obama's Overnight Apple Cobbler. I have had this recipe stashed away in my recipe file for quite some time. What better day to post this recipe than on Presidents Day . What does our 44Th president like to eat? Well we are just beginning to find out! But The First Lady says this apple cobbler is President Obama's Favorite. The crust is very flaky she says just like Barack's likes it. This cobbler also cooks low and slow, so your house smells amazing while it's baking.

I found this recipe in the January, 2009 issue of Yankee Magazine. From the photo alone I knew I had to try it. A few other Obama Family recipes that I want to try my hand at are, The Obama Family Chili, Barack's Pizza Burgers and Michelle Obama's Shortbread Cookies. Shortbread cookies are my husbands favorite cookie, so that will probably be the first recipe I will try. From that list of foods our President is eating quite well.

Michelle Obama's Overnight Apple Cobbler

Filling:
8 - Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced [or a bag of frozen peeled apples]
1-1/2 to 2 - cups of brown sugar
1-1/2 - teaspoons cinnamon
1 - teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 - teaspoon salt
1/4 - cup white flour

Mix these ingredients together in a bowl and let it sit in the refrigerator overnight so the spice mix all the way through the apples.

Crust:
3 - sheets refrigerated pie crust
1 - stick of butter - separated

Preheat oven at 325 degrees. Butter and flour the bottom of a large baking dish. Roll out three pie crusts real thin -- as thin as possible. Layer the bottom of the pan with 1-1/2 of the pie crusts and prick a few holes in it. Pour the apples with the liquid into the pie pan. Dot 3/4 of a stick of butter around the apples. Use the final 1-1/2 pie crusts to cover the apple mixture entirely.

Pinch the edges of the dough together. Melt final 1/4 stick of butter and brush all over top of crust. Reduce the oven temperature to 300 degrees. Bake at 300 for up to 3 hours -- that's what makes the crust flaky. Start looking at the cobbler after two and a half hours so it doesn't burn.

*I was pinched for time so I baked mine at 35o degrees for 1 - 1/2 hours.

Servings: 12