Ingredients:
Maple-Spiced Butter:
8 T unsalted butter, softened
2 T maple syrup
1 t Watkins Pumpkin Pie Spice
Apple Popovers:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 t salt
1 1/3 cups milk
4 large eggs
7 T unsalted butter (5 T melted)
1 small tart apple, cored and cut into 1/8 to 1/4 inch dice
Maple-Spiced Butter:
In a small bowl stir together butter, maple syrup and pumpkin pie spice until smooth; set aside.
Apple Popovers:
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour and salt. In a blender combine milk, eggs and 5 t melted butter. Blend on medium-high speed 20 seconds. Whisk into flour mixture until just combined. Let stand at room temperature 30 minutes.
Meanwhile heat oven to 450 degrees and place rack in lower third of oven. Cut remaining 2 T butter into 12 pieces and divide amoung cups of a 12-cup popover pan. Place 1 T apple into each cup. Just before baking, transfer pan to oven and heat until butter is melted and pan is hot, about 1 minute.
Carefully remove pan from oven and evenly pour batter over apples. Immediately return pan to oven. Bake 15 minutes (do not open oven). Reduce oven to 375 degrees and bake until popovers are crisp and browned, 18 to 20 minutes more.
Turn out popovers onto a wire rack and let cool 2 to 3 minutes. Serve hot with Maple-Spiced Butter.
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