The flavors of Fall have been kicked up a notch or two with this little beautiful bite, graced with the sweet and simple addition of Apple Butter! Yep, something as simple as Apple Butter has turned this awesome, bacon, meatball bite into something extraordinary!
Each bite is gloriously glazed with the sweet and slightly spicy succulent and sticky sauce. I never knew that Apple Butter could add so much to a dish, but wow..it sure did. Now, just in time for the ‘exciting’ football season, you can have a fun, simple fall flavored appetizer, in a matter of minutes, with minimal effort.
And when I say “you” can have it..I mean it! YEP~ YOU have a chance to win a giant jar of Musselman’s Apple Butter and an adorable bowl to mix up your own super sauce! PLUS..some of Musselman’s incredible recipe cards for inspiration!
See how you can win after the recipe below!!
What you’ll need:
Fully Cooked meatballs…defrosted! As many as you’d like, for the amount of bacon you have.
1 lb. Bacon
Pretzel sticks..one for each bite.
The glaze:
1/2 cup Musselman’s Apple Butter
1/4 cup brown Sugar
1 tsp. Cayenne Pepper..optional, but SO good!
Directions:
In a medium bowl combine the apple butter, brown sugar and cayenne pepper until well mixed…
Now wrap each meatball with a half slice of bacon and “drill a hole” into each Meatball with a skewer or long object…
Slide a pretzel stick through the hole…
Brush on the apple butter glaze..
Bake them on a rack on a sheet pan at 350 degrees for approx. 25-30 minutes, or until they’re a dark, sticky beautiful delight…
Let them cool…
Serve them up…
Watch them go… hopefully into your mouth! ~Enjoy! 🙂
NOW FOR THE CONTEST!!
YOU have the chance of winning this incredible Musselman’s Apple Butter prize pack including an adorable Fall inspired ceramic bowl to serve all of your appley creations, creative recipe cards for inspiration, and a HUGE jar of Apple Butter so you can get busy creating your own sticky sweet goodies!
**All you need to do, is tell me below how you’d use the Apple Butter! That’s it, one winner will be chosen by Monday, October 27, 2014 Midnight EST! ~GOOD LUCK! 🙂
I didn’t know whether to answer this here or on the post on facebook. So I am doing both, just in case. I will be making these for sure!! They look and sound so delicious. I want to make lots of them to have at home, share with friends and family, and anyone that just pops in for a visit. And I am very interested in seeing those Musselman’s recipe cards and seeing whatelse I can make with yummy applebutter. LOVE that stuff!! Thanks for sharing and for the giveaway!!
Wow – these meatballs look delectable! Can’t wait to try ’em! Of course, being an avid baker, I’d have to use the rest of the apple butter in something decadent like inside cinnamon rolls.
On Toast for breakfast everyday topped with maple glazed bacon
We ate this everyday for lunch ,as kids and LOVED it , didn’t even know it was still on the market, had forgotten about it…now I can make so many yummy things with it ,it’s great on pancaked , toast , rolls , even put a lil in meatloaf once, and it was good
These look amazing! Definitely will be making these on sunday! What could be better than football and a delicious snack?! Im an applebutter fanatic so I would put that jar to good use 🙂 my kids love applebutter muffins so I would use it to treat the kids.
I have been eating Apple bottle all m y life on hot buttered toast out of the oven or on biscuits. When my momma was in the nursing home, I took her applebutter that she kept in her room to eat as a snack.
I would use the Apple Butter to top some caramel apple cheesecake! I would also make frozen apple butter drops to add to my morning smoothies. Alright, now I’ve made myself hungry!
On my pancakes on Sunday morning.
I would like to use the apple butter with some Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce and baste grilled pork chops a few times until they look yummy like your meatballs.
I would use the apple butter on toast, warm, crunchy toast.
I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I’ve never had apple butter….Ö Sounds fantastic in this recipe, though! Definitely will try it now Ü
I love apple butter on hot biscuits. I may try it as a glaze too, mixing it with chili sauce. I’ve done that with cranberry sauce and it was yummy!
I would use the apple butter on warm toast!
Wow ! I would have never thought of using apple butter this way… I will have to find this brand… if I don’t win… I will be making this for sure !!!!
I would spread apple butter on a warm bagel in the mornings. I would DEF make the above meatballs!! (mouth is watering!) and then I would get on the internet and find yummy recipes to use the apple butter in!
Biscuits
When we were growing up, the only way I would eat liver, was with apple butter…I taught my kids and my grandkids to eat liver with apple butter….
I’ve always loved to have it when I have sawmill or brown gravy and biscuits. The sweetness of the apple butter and the salt of the gravy is awesome.
I use it for the filling when making cinnamon rolls
I would use this apple butter on a lot of things… it looks great for a marinade!!
I love Apple Butter on Grilled Chicken, so much better than BBQ sauce, I have also poured it over meatballs and cooked in the crock pot, toast, biscuits, pork chops… the possibility’s are endless,,,