Apple Nut Ring

I remember my mother making this for our family on holiday mornings. The smell of cinnamon and apples add a wonderful to the home as you are going through your morning. This recipe is quick and easy. If you don't have an apple-peeler-corer-slicer, just peel and core the apples with a vegetable peeler and thinly slice them. 

Apple Nut Ring
2 cans (8 oz each) pillsbury buttermilk biscuits
3/4 c. cinnamon sugar
1/4 c. raisins (optional)
2 granny smith apples
4 Tbls. margarine or butter softened
1/3 c. pecans

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Melt margarine/butter and brush onto sides and bottom of round baking dish. Arrange 15 biscuits around outer edge of baking dish and overlap remaining in center. Peel core and slice apples with apple peeler corer slicer: cut each apple in half. Place 2 apple slices between each biscuit and all around the outer edge of the deep dish baker. Brush tops of biscuits and apples with margarine/butter. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Chop nuts and sprinkle over top. Mix raisins with remaining sugar and sprinkle over the top. Bake 25-30 minutes.