Every so often - usually with the changes of the season - I get the "bug" to clean, reorganize and de-clutter everything.
I mean EVERYTHING.
Even my blog.
So I'm doing a little "tweaking" here and there. Please be patient with me.
Happy Fall Y'all!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Apple Bundt Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze
Apple Season is upon us! I love this time of year. The smells of cinnamon & apple, pumpkin & clove..... Ahhhhh!
Here is one of my favorite cakes to make this time of year.....or any time of year.
Apple Bundt Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze
3 medium apples
1 Tb sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tb baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 c vegetable oil (what ever kind you prefer)
1/2 c plain apple sauce
1/4 c orange juice
2 1/2 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
1 c chopped walnuts or pecans
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F, and lightly grease a bundt cake pan. Set aside.
Peel, core and dice two of the apples.
Core and dice the third apple. I love the color and texture this gives, but if you have an irrational aversion to apple peels, go ahead and peel that one too. Place apples in a medium sized mixing bowl. Add the Tb sugar and the first 1st of cinnamon. Toss to coat.
Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar.
In another medium mixing bowl, combine the eggs, oil, apple sauce, orange juice and vanilla. Mix into the flour mixture until just combine. This will be a thick batter.
Stir in nuts.
Now, in your cake pan, spread 1/3 of the cake batter.
Cover it with 1/2 of the apples.
Resist the urge to eat the apple chunks.
It's hard, but you can do it!
Repeat, and finish with the last of the batter.
Bake the cake for 55-65 minutes, or until it tests done with a toothpick. Cool for a few minutes in the pan, and then turn out onto a platter/plate.
While it is cooling, you can make the glaze.
In a small saucepan, combine:
1/4 c brown sugar
1/4 c butter
1/4 c white sugar
1/4 c cream, half and half, or milk
Stir over medium-low heat until all melted and "happy" (as Emeril says)then stir in
1 1/2 tsp vanilla.
You will then drizzle this over the warm cake. I find this easiest if I pour the glaze into a glass measuring cup with a pour spout.
Mmmmmmm.....these are the kinds of things that make me happy! Enjoy this cake warm or room temp - with or without ice cream. I've personally never been much of a cake & ice cream person. Let the cake stand on its own I say. Unless it is something like fudge pudding cake, something made to be eaten with ice cream.
Enjoy!
Printable Version:
Apple Bundt Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze
3 medium apples
1 Tb sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tb baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 c vegetable oil (what ever kind you prefer)
1/2 c plain apple sauce
1/4 c orange juice
2 1/2 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
1 c chopped walnuts or pecans
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F, and lightly grease a bundt cake pan.
Set aside.
Peel, core and dice two of the apples.
Core and dice the third apple.
Put apples in a medium mixing bowl, add Tb sugar and 1st tsp of cinnamon. Toss to coat.
Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar.
In another medium mixing bowl, combine the eggs, oil, apple sauce, orange juice and vanilla. Mix into the flour mixture until just combine. This will be a thick batter.
Stir in nuts.
Now, in your cake pan, spread 1/3 of the cake batter.
Cover it with 1/2 of the apples.
Repeat, and finish with the last of the batter.
Bake the cake for 55-65 minutes, or until it tests done with a toothpick. Cool for a few minutes in the pan, and then turn out onto a platter/plate.
Glaze:
In a small saucepan, combine:
1/4 c brown sugar
1/4 c butter
1/4 c white sugar
1/4 c cream, half and half, or milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
Stir first four ingredients over medium-low heat until all melted.
Stir in vanilla.
Drizzle over cake.
1 1/2 tsp vanilla.
Enjoy!
Here is one of my favorite cakes to make this time of year.....or any time of year.
Apple Bundt Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze
3 medium apples
1 Tb sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tb baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 c vegetable oil (what ever kind you prefer)
1/2 c plain apple sauce
1/4 c orange juice
2 1/2 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
1 c chopped walnuts or pecans
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F, and lightly grease a bundt cake pan. Set aside.
Peel, core and dice two of the apples.
Core and dice the third apple. I love the color and texture this gives, but if you have an irrational aversion to apple peels, go ahead and peel that one too. Place apples in a medium sized mixing bowl. Add the Tb sugar and the first 1st of cinnamon. Toss to coat.
Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar.
In another medium mixing bowl, combine the eggs, oil, apple sauce, orange juice and vanilla. Mix into the flour mixture until just combine. This will be a thick batter.
Stir in nuts.
Now, in your cake pan, spread 1/3 of the cake batter.
Cover it with 1/2 of the apples.
Resist the urge to eat the apple chunks.
It's hard, but you can do it!
Repeat, and finish with the last of the batter.
Bake the cake for 55-65 minutes, or until it tests done with a toothpick. Cool for a few minutes in the pan, and then turn out onto a platter/plate.
While it is cooling, you can make the glaze.
In a small saucepan, combine:
1/4 c brown sugar
1/4 c butter
1/4 c white sugar
1/4 c cream, half and half, or milk
Stir over medium-low heat until all melted and "happy" (as Emeril says)then stir in
1 1/2 tsp vanilla.
You will then drizzle this over the warm cake. I find this easiest if I pour the glaze into a glass measuring cup with a pour spout.
Mmmmmmm.....these are the kinds of things that make me happy! Enjoy this cake warm or room temp - with or without ice cream. I've personally never been much of a cake & ice cream person. Let the cake stand on its own I say. Unless it is something like fudge pudding cake, something made to be eaten with ice cream.
Enjoy!
Printable Version:
Apple Bundt Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze
3 medium apples
1 Tb sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tb baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 c vegetable oil (what ever kind you prefer)
1/2 c plain apple sauce
1/4 c orange juice
2 1/2 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
1 c chopped walnuts or pecans
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F, and lightly grease a bundt cake pan.
Set aside.
Peel, core and dice two of the apples.
Core and dice the third apple.
Put apples in a medium mixing bowl, add Tb sugar and 1st tsp of cinnamon. Toss to coat.
Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar.
In another medium mixing bowl, combine the eggs, oil, apple sauce, orange juice and vanilla. Mix into the flour mixture until just combine. This will be a thick batter.
Stir in nuts.
Now, in your cake pan, spread 1/3 of the cake batter.
Cover it with 1/2 of the apples.
Repeat, and finish with the last of the batter.
Bake the cake for 55-65 minutes, or until it tests done with a toothpick. Cool for a few minutes in the pan, and then turn out onto a platter/plate.
Glaze:
In a small saucepan, combine:
1/4 c brown sugar
1/4 c butter
1/4 c white sugar
1/4 c cream, half and half, or milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
Stir first four ingredients over medium-low heat until all melted.
Stir in vanilla.
Drizzle over cake.
1 1/2 tsp vanilla.
Enjoy!
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Giant Silkmoth
A couple years ago, when we lived in our wonderful farmhouse, we had the pleasure of seeing this beauty....
Well, yesterday, our neighbor boy was walking through the grass and found this...
It is the caterpillar of a giant silkmoth. We don't know what variation it is, but this morning it looked like this....
Forming a cocoon.
So eventually, we will find out what kind it is. In the Spring! It will emerge as a moth, and live only a few days before dying. Which means it was all the more amazing to see that moth that we saw a few years ago.
How cool!
Well, yesterday, our neighbor boy was walking through the grass and found this...
It is the caterpillar of a giant silkmoth. We don't know what variation it is, but this morning it looked like this....
Forming a cocoon.
So eventually, we will find out what kind it is. In the Spring! It will emerge as a moth, and live only a few days before dying. Which means it was all the more amazing to see that moth that we saw a few years ago.
How cool!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Adventurous Day #2 and the drive
The next day, my daughter went with some friends to the little town, and the boys and I headed to the nearby Cave Run lake.
The lake shore was covered with interesting rock formations, and fossils of plants everywhere you looked.
My boys....
....being boys
The next day, we got on the road to head to Tennessee to visit the grandparents.
As we left the lodge, we said goodbye to some of the residents...
They were a little stand-offish
And what it is about kids and cameras?
"Hahaha! I took a picture of you taking a picture of me!"
Really?
Tennessee mountain view
It was a lovely trip, and I'm happy to be home.
The lake shore was covered with interesting rock formations, and fossils of plants everywhere you looked.
My boys....
....being boys
The next day, we got on the road to head to Tennessee to visit the grandparents.
As we left the lodge, we said goodbye to some of the residents...
They were a little stand-offish
And what it is about kids and cameras?
"Hahaha! I took a picture of you taking a picture of me!"
Really?
Tennessee mountain view
It was a lovely trip, and I'm happy to be home.
Adventurous Day - #1
The first full day we spent at the lodge in Salty Lick, KY - what do my boys find?
Figure it out yet???
Yep - more of these critters!
Then we went on a hike up a mountain trail.
Along the way, my youngest found this
The fossil of a shell on the side of a mountain.
On the top of the Mountain
On the edge of the Daniel Boone National Forest
Figure it out yet???
Yep - more of these critters!
Then we went on a hike up a mountain trail.
Along the way, my youngest found this
The fossil of a shell on the side of a mountain.
On the top of the Mountain
On the edge of the Daniel Boone National Forest
Around the Lodge
While in Kentucky, we stayed at the Journey's End Lodge. These are some pictures I took around the area.
A Silo across the way
Fountain out front
Morning light on wildflowers
My boys....being boys
An old wagon at the nearby "Rudy's Ranch"
A Silo across the way
Fountain out front
Morning light on wildflowers
My boys....being boys
An old wagon at the nearby "Rudy's Ranch"
Kentucky Morning
These were from our first morning in Kentucky. The days tarted out very foggy, and the views were lovely!
Traveling to Kentucky
Last week, we went on a trip to Kentucky. My daughter took these photos along the way...
In North Carolina....
Pilot Mountain
In Virginia.....
The kiddos loved this! We went through two of these mountain tunnels along I-77
Heading into WV - haven't driven through this state since 1993!
Capital of West Virginia....
Our destination state!
In North Carolina....
Pilot Mountain
In Virginia.....
The kiddos loved this! We went through two of these mountain tunnels along I-77
Heading into WV - haven't driven through this state since 1993!
Capital of West Virginia....
Our destination state!
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