Sweet Potatoes and Apples

A lot of my recipes start out because
I have a single ingredient that I want
to use and add in another just because.
Having a few sweet potatoes around
I added some apples and baked them
in a maple butter brown sugar sauce.

Ingredients:
3 granny smith apples,cored
3 sweet potatoes
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1/4 cup apple juice

Directions:
Place sweet potatoes in a glass dish
and microwave them for 4 minutes, let cool.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Peel sweet potatoes and apples,
cut in 1/4" slices and set aside.
In a small bowl mix together
brown sugar,pumpkin pie spice,
apple juice and maple syrup.
Butter a large baking dish.
Alternate layering apples and
sweet potatoes in the dish
packing in as many as possible.
Pour apple juice mixture all over the top
of the layers and then sprinkle
with brown sugar mixture.
Finish by dotting the top with butter.
Bake covered with aluminum foil
for about 1 hour then test for doneness.
When the sweet potatoes and apples
start to get tender, take the foil off
and let the top caramelize
in the oven for 5 minutes.