Apple Cake

Apple Pies, Coffee, Ginger, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, 

Pumpkin anything...Delicious Autumn!  

Fall is my absolute favorite season!  I love the sound of leaves crunching beneath my feet, the smell of burning leaves, and to watch as the leaves turn to red, orange, and yellow.  This is also the season I like to bake the most.  My husband and sons love apple pies!  But let's face it, making a pie crust from scratch takes a lot of time, and I just don't have enough time to make them often.  I came up with this recipe a few weeks ago when my mother-in-law was visiting.  I had prepared a nice meal (on a school night mind you) and afterwards my husband asks, "What's for dessert?"  Well, I hadn't even thought about it.  So I looked around my kitchen and came up with this quick and easy apple cake.

Ingredients:

1/2 yellow cake mix

5 Granny Smith Apples

1 stick of butter (at least)

1/2 cup brown sugar

3/4 Tablespoon cinnamon

pinch of salt

Step 1: Peel and chop apples into bite size pieces.  I use my apple slicer and then cut each slice into 3 pieces.

Step 2:  Combine apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, and salt.  Pour into buttered 9X13 baking dish.

Step 3:  Pour 1/2 the bag of a yellow cake mix over the apples.  Shake the baking dish a little so that some settles on the bottom.

Step 4:  Melt butter and pour over the cake mix.  If there are a few areas where the butter isn't covering the cake mix, place thin pads of butter on top of those areas.

Step 5:  Bake at 350° for 45-60 minutes, until golden brown and cooked through.  Serve warm.

I am working on getting a better picture for you, I promise!

I have also made this dessert in small ramekins for individual desserts!  And if you like a little crunch to your dessert, just add some finely chopped walnuts or pecans.

Don't forget to top it with ice cream!!!

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Pumpkin Pretzels

Last year, my mom went up to Blacksburg, Virginia to see a Virginia Tech football game and came home telling be about these pumpkin pretzels that she had up there and just loved!  Well, of course, I started craving them and didn't have any so I was determine to make my own.  Here's the recipe I came up with and let me just say...YUM!   

A word of advice....taste as you go.  You may like more or less of a certain spice.  I dip a pretzel in, taste it, and adjust seasoning. 

Ingredients: 

6oz White Chocolate Chips

1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

1/2 tsp cinnamon

(you could add a pinch of nutmeg too)

1 bag Snyder's of Hanover Mini Pretzels

Directions:

Melt white chocolate chips according to package directions (I set the microwave to 70% power for 80 seconds...stirring twice throughout OR I use a double broiler).  Stir in spices until incorporated.  Dip pretzels and set aside on parchment paper.

(makes about 50 pretzels)

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