Delicious Day

Today is fabulous. Two main reasons:
1) I got a $600 grant for school! (which isn't really that much, but if they gave me $2, I would take it. $600 is a lot to me.)
2) I made beautiful, delicious apple tarts.

Jealous? You should be.
I think it is high time I put a recipe on my blog. So I am going to share this one. :) I originally got the recipe from my Young Women's leader Christin Shumway. Since then it has delighted many roommates and friends, and won a ward dessert contest (winning me the movie Wall-e!). But don't take my word for it, try it.

Flaky Turnovers (adjusted by me to make tarts/mini-pies)

2 cubes butter, sliced in marble-sized cubes, kept chilled in their wrappers
1/2 tsp salt
2 c. flour
1/2 c. ice water

Cut together 1 cube butter, salt, and flour, Add water and knead just to form a soft, sticky dough (add more flour if needed)
Roll dough into an 18x8" rectangle and cover 2/3 lengthwise of the dough with butter cubes, using 1/2 a cube. Fold dough in thirds like a business letter, flipping the third with no butter over the buttered part, and then flipping that part over the remaining butter covered dough (make sense at all?).
Repeat the above process again, using the remaining butter. Chill the folded dough in a bag for 15 minutes (or the freezer for 10 minutes).
Roll out again to 18x8" (no butter), and fold crosswise, then lengthwise. Chill in a bag for 1 hour, or more (or freeze for 1/2 an hour only).
Cut dough in half with a knife. Store one portion in the bag in the fridge, and roll out the other into a 12" square. Cut the square in four squares using a pizza cutter. Drop heaping tablespoons of pie filling on each square and fold and seal the square diagonally, into a triangle turnover. Repeat with dough in the fridge. Cut vents in the top with scissors, and brush tops with a beaten egg. Bake at 450 for 20 minutes or till golden. When cool, glaze with powdered sugar/milk mixture. Makes 8 turnovers.

Thanks out to Christin for my happy baking. :) I hope you get a chance to try to make these! Add any pie filling you like to make yummy turnovers. I have even tried making little pumpkin pies, and they turned out amazingly.
I hope your day is deliciously wonderful, too.