Labor Day dessert

Quick follow-up as we move toward Labor Day dinner. As I mentioned over on Facebook, earlier this week I saw a photo of an apple pie someone had made using flattened out cinnamon rolls (the kind that come in a cardboard tube) as the crust. I thought Kathleen showed it to me—she says I showed it to her, so I have no idea who actually sent it to me or where I saw it in the first place.

Anyway, that means I don't have a recipe, but I decided to make it anyway.

Not a lot of thinking involved: seven of the eight rolls get laid in a circle in the bottom of the pie plate with one in the middle, flattened out as much as possible. Then I uncoiled one and ran it around the top because it seemed to make sense with the kind of pie plates I use. Two cans of apple pie filling (yeah, I'm lazy, but Mr. Mom learned a long time ago to take shortcuts when it made sense to do so—Ann, did I mention I parboil my ribs?) and an apple crisp topping (oatmeal, flour, brown sugar and butter) on top.

When it came out of the oven, Kathleen talked me into dribbling the cheesecake icing that came with the rolls across the top. That's okay, I have an electric toothbrush and sweet is good.

Anyhow, here's what I ended up with: