Cooking with 'Friends': 'FOX & Friends First' Bake-off!

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Cooking with 'Friends': 'Fox & Friends First' bake-off

A baking battle between co-hosts Rob Schmitt and Jillian Mele.

ROB SCHMITT’S APPLE PIE
Ingredients:
7-8 large sweet apples
1 pre-made pie dough (2 crusts)
⅛ c. sugar
⅛ c. flour
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tbsp. cinnamon

Instructions:
Put the pie dough in a pie dish. Slice apples and layer inside the crust. Sprinkle sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon and flour onto each layer as you slowly fill the dish up with apples. Top it with second dough and bake at 425°F for about 35-45 minutes, or until the crust is slightly burnt.

JILLIAN MELE’S STROOPWAFEL CAKE
Ingredients:
⅞ c. unsalted butter, at room temperature
1⅓ c. flour
¼ tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
⅔ c. granulated sugar
¼ c. sugar (made more fine in a blender)
2 tsp. vanilla
Eggs
8 stroopwafels

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 320°F.
Use a loaf pan and line just the bottom with parchment paper and grease the sides.
In a medium bowl, mix together flour, salt and baking powder. In a separate bowl, cream butter with both sugars. Slowly add in flour mixture. Add vanilla, pinch of salt and cinnamon. Then add eggs one by one to create a smooth and airy batter.
Mix in stroopwafels.
Bake for 1 hour.