Fall Apple Cake Recipe

Hola Amigos: I'm guess I'm feeling daring with my oven lately! So far no fails and I hope I don't jinx it after this one.
We had a lot of apples in this house this year, maybe because my little one likes to take one to school everyday, maybe because a nearby neighbor lets us go into her yard and pick as many as we want or maybe no matter where we go we get a box full of free apples! Who am I to complain about this! The more the merrier and free makes them taste even sweeter.

But after a while...what am going to do with all of them? way too many in just one week, here comes girlfriend with her tried and tested Apple Cake recipe, and even though I panic every time I'm baking sweets I have to mix myself, she told me there was no way I could mess this one up.

Wow was she right! It was good...too good I would say, because half of it got eaten by a pack of hungry teenagers before I could take a pic of the entire thing. You can picture right now my expression when I came to take the pics and half the cake was gone!!!!!! <-----insert the "Home Alone Plus" face here.

I'm sure you've tried this recipe before, it was my first time and it won't be the last!

Of course, as tradition mandates, well at least tradition in my house, if it's called cake, it needs Ice Cream, and caramel and, well I was out of chocolate this time, but you get the idea!

Thank You for visiting the blog today! Are you having an abundance of Apples as well? What do you do with all of them, care to share? Remember my friends, everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Fall Apple Cake
Ingredients:
2 Pounds Apples (like 4 medium), chopped
2 Cups Brown Sugar
1/2 Cup Butter
2 Eggs
2 tsp Baking Soda
1 TBSP Apple Pie Spice
2 1/2 Cups Flour
Topping
2 TBSP Brown Sugar
2 TBSP Flour
2 TBSP Butter
1 TBSP Apple Spice
1 Cup Chopped Pecans
Directions:
Preheat your oven at 350 degrees. Grease your baking pan. Set aside.
Bet together your wet ingredients (now that sounds professional right?) brown sugar, butter and eggs. Once everything is mixed using your spatula, add apples, flour, baking soda and apple spice. Pour this mix on your greased baking pan. For the topping mix all the mentioned ingredients and sprinkle over the mix. Bake for 35-40 minutes. Serve and Enjoy!

Prep Time 10 minutes                                Cook Time 35-40 minute                   Serves 10

Sharing my Sweet Apple Pie at these Fabulous Parties:

Sweet Haute, The Brambleberry Cottage, Lamberts Lately, The Mandatory Mooch, Katherine's Corner, What's Cooking Love?, The Crafty Blogstalker, Saving 4 Six, A Glimpse Inside, Made in a Day, Simply Dream and Create, Consider me Inspired, Artsy Fartsy Mama, Living Well Spending Less, The Inspiration Network, Gingerly Made, White Lights on Wednesday, The Girl Creative, The Answer is Chocolate, Becoming Martha, The Best Blog Recipes, Tidy Mom, French Country Cottage, My Turn (for Us), 504 Main, Home Maid Simple, The Shabby Nest, The Pin Junkie, The Craft Dictator, Living Better Together, Not Your Ordinary Recipes, Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons, In the Kitchen with Jenny, The 36th Avenue, Today's Creative Blog, The Crafty Allie, Cheerios and Lattes, Made from Pinterest, Twigg Studios, Nifty Thrifty Things, Flamingo Toes, Life on Lakeshore Drive, I Should be Mopping the Floors, Will Cook for Smiles, Titi Crafty, 2 Crochet Cooks, My Mixing Spoon, Two It Yourself, The Chicken Chick, Under the Table and Dreaming, Coastal Charm, Between Naps on the Porch, The Plaid and Paisley Kitchen, Cooking for the Seven Dwarfs, A Pinch of Joy, Create with Joy, The Tumbleweed Contessa, Kathe with an E, Feeding Big, Home Stories A to Z, Hun...what's for dinner?, Our Table for Seven, The View from 510, Mandy's Recipe Box, Nap-Time Creations, Chef in Training, Pint Sized Baker,Lady Behind the Curtain, Ducks' n a Row, Fluster Buster, Taylor House, Ginger Snap Crafts, Diana Rambles, Juggling Real Food and Real Life, Rain on a Tin Roof, Huckleberry Love, Craft-O-Maniac, Skip to my Lou, Say Not Sweet Anne, Alderberry Hill, Boogieboard Cottage, Mad in Crafts, Frugality Gal, Carrie This Home, Smart School House, Kleinworth & Co, Homemade Ginger, Memories by the Mile, Kitchen Meets Girl

Caramel Apple Biscuit Cups Recipe

Hola Amigos! Happy New Week! hope your weekend was fun and uneventful. At the house we tried to take it easy and relax after a few worrisome days  due to a silly  school accident my little one had at his K school. He is fine now but it was a bit stressful with a very lengthy visit to his doctor and right away to the ER. We just had to take it easy and that's how this  treat came to be!

When I'm stressed I crave for little bites of sweet comfort. I had a 3 apples that were not looking to happy and a pint of my favorite vanilla bean ice cream, baked apples with ice cream sounded amazing to me.

I kicked it to another lever baking them on my favorite caramel sauce. Had my dessert and so much left over that the next day for breakfast I decided to stuff our regular Sunday biscuits with the mix!
Oh boy! Now I need to make this every Sunday! They are warm, sweet and juicy. Crispy in the outside and sticky in the inside!

My pictures didn't come out good this time, they really don't do justice to how good and gooey these guys are. Note to self, time to get a light box for the soon to be here cold and dark days!

In light of recent commentaries of a certain public figure about bloggers I'm going to say one more time, I'm no expert. I don't have a degree in culinary arts and I have never been the editor of a glossy magazine.

I am an expert of what my family and friends like. After spending 7 years of my life studying in my country and overseas I do have a University degree and I'm the editor of the weekly grocery list I write in order to know what I need to get to plan for my family's meals. Meals that I've been sharing with you in hopes to inspire you in creating something similar to your family adding your own personal touches. You have and that is why almost a year later I keep writing this blog and enjoying each and every one of my readers!

This particular recipe started as one thing and ended as another...don't we all do that once in a while? My guys liked it, they smiled and some licked their little fingers and that was enough validation to me.
But enough of that lady and back to the biscuits, lol...I'm sure you are going to like them. I even drizzled more caramel sauce over them after they were done...yummm!

Thank you for visiting the blog my friends! Halloween is only 10 days away....(And still no costume, ugh!), Give these apples with or without the biscuits cups a try. As I said they are delicious with just plain ice cream, but if you have left overs...go ahead and stuff your morning biscuits with them and give your usual breakfast a sweet tasty spin!  Remember everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Caramel Apple Biscuit Cups

Ingredients:

3 Green Apples

1 Cup Brown Sugar

4 TBSP Butter

1/2  Cup Cream 

Pinch of salt

1 tsps vanilla 

1 tsps lemon juice

1.2 tsps cinnamon

1/2 tsps nutmeg

1/2 tsps allspice

1 can  (8) Grands Honey Butter Biscuits

Directions:

Heat up oven at 350F

For caramel apples:

Peel and diced apples. Pour 1 tsp of lemon juice on the apples, mix. Add cinnamon, nutmeg and all spice, mix and set aside.

In a saucepan on medium heat add and mix brown sugar, butter cream and a pinch of salt. Cook until bubbly and semi thickened for about 3-5 minutes. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Mix.

Add this sauce to the apples, make sure all the apples are coated by the caramel. Place in the oven, cover with aluminum foil   and cook  until apples are soft but not mushy, about 20 minutes. 

Remove from oven, let it cool a bit before serving over ice cream or just eating right out of a bowl.

For Caramel Apples Biscuit Cups:

Heat up oven to 375F

Take 2 biscuits from the can, put them together between 2 sheets of wax paper and using a rolling pin,  roll them flat until you get a circle approximately 5 -5 1/2 inches each. You will get 4 circles out of a can.

Using a jumbo nonstick muffin pan, place each circle on the muffin cup. Make sure the biscuit dough is covering the bottom and sides of the muffin cup. Spoon the apple mixture on each dough cup  almost all the way to the top. Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. Remove and cool before serving. 

Prep Time 20 minutes                        Bake Time 20 minutes                               Serves 4

Sharing my Fall Apple Stuffed Biscuits at these Fa-Boo-lous Parties:

Ms enPlace, DIY Home Sweet Home, A Southern Fairtytale, Mad in Crafts, Jam Hands, The Plaid and Paisley Kitchen, Watch Out, Martha!, A Pinch of Joy, Feeding Big, The Gunny Sack, Hun What's for Dinner?, Our Table for Seven, Chef in Training, Memories by the Mile, Love Bakes Good Cakes, Not Just a Housewife, Between Naps on the Porch, A peek into my Paradise, Lady Behind the Curtain, Smart School House, Ginger Snap Crafts, Someday Crafts, The Shady Porch, Made to be a Momma, Real Housewives of Riverton, All She Cooks, Polkadots on Parade, Kitchen Meets Girl, SNAP, Ducks' n a Row, Pink Recipe Box, The Well Crafted Home, Live Laugh Rowe, The Crafty Blogstalker, Lamberts Lately, Made in a Day, The Mandatory Mooch, Jennifer Rizzo, Gingerly Made, Sparkles and a Stove, Delish, My Turn (for Us), Simply Dream and Create, Craftionary, The Best Blog Recipes, The Girl Creative, My Life in Pencil, Practically Functional, Today's Creative Blog, Sweet Haute, The Patriotic Pam, 504 Main, Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons, The Answer is Chocolate, Six Sisters Stuff, Cheerios and Lattes, Made From Pinterest, Craft Dictator, Classy Clutter, Will Cook For Smiles, Sew-Licious, Suburbs Mama, Twigg Studios, Lemon Paper Designs, Serenity You, Cooking for the Seven Dwarfs, I Should be Mopping the Floors, Create with Joy, Craft-O-Maniac, Frugal Foodie Mama, SL Under the table and Dreaming, Huckleberry Love, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Carrie This Home, Boogie Board Cottage, Alderberry Hill, Navy Wifey Peters, The Chicken Chick, Lines Across, Say Not Sweet Anne, The Plaid and Paisley Kitchen, Titi Crafty, Suburbs Mama, Flamingo Toes, Between Naps on the Porch, Coastal Charm, Golden Reflections, Pint Sized Baker, Sugar Bee Crafts, The Blackberry Vine, Nap Time Creations, Home Stories A to Z, Kathe with an E, Cozy Little House, The Brambleberry Cottage, Creative Geekery, Saving 4 Six, What's Cooking Love?, 52 Mantels

Bat's Blood Elixir Halloween Smoothie Recipe

Hola Amigos! Let's start this week with a sweet and healthy note and since I'm all stoked with my Halloween theme, I'm making this "elixir" to be served to your little monsters in the morning or as an after school snack on the eve of the big spooky night ( or any day you want)

For this particular smoothie I'm going not just  for flavor but since this one is for Halloween, I'm going for texture too as well! Very important when it comes to give everyday  food a little bit of fear factor making it perfect for the fun and spooktacular festivity.

Full of fresh fruits, this smoothie is extremely refreshing and with a natural beautiful "bloody" color.

To decorate it and giving it the finishing touch all you need is a Fleshy looking strawberry and some sparkling blood red sugar, you will be on your way to trick your kids into a delicious and healthy treat!

Thank you for welcoming this your blog into your homes this morning, so you know, all the garlic in your kitchen won't work against vampires and bats this Halloween  because as you know, Once you have welcomed a Vampire into your home you are powerless, but if you drink this "elixir" you might have a chance of survival! Remember, everything tastes better with a Pinch!!!! oh....a Pinch of Love that is!

Besitos,

Lizy

Bat's Blood Elixir Halloween Smoothie

Ingredients

1 Yellow Apple

1 Green Apple

1 Cup Strawberries, hulled

1 8 oz bottle of Red Blood Orange (or the juice of Fresh Red Blood Oranges until you get 1 cup)

1 good squirt of Granadine 

Directions:

Put all ingredients on a blender and blend until smooth!

Decorate with red sugar and a strawberry dipped in a fleshy looking strawberry! Enjoy

Prep Time: 5 minutes                   Serves 4 (4 oz glasses)

Sharing my Magical Elixir at these Fa_BOO-lous Parties:

Between Naps on the Porch, I Gotta Try That, Jembellish, Cupcake-n-Bake, Coastal Charm, The Blackberry Vine, Huckleberry Love, I should be mopping the floors, Not Just a Housewife, Thank You Honey, Nap-Time Creations, Chef in Training, Memories by the Mile, Homemade Ginger, Lady Behind the Curtain, Shaffer Sisters, Smart School House, The Everyday Home, The Real Housewives of Riverton, Maid in a Day, SNAP, All She Cooks, The Everyday Home, Real Coake, Made to be a Momma, Sew Much Ado, White Lighsts on Wednesday, Pink Recipe Box, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, Glitter, Glue and Paint, The Shady Porch, Creative Geekery, The Brambleberry Cottage, Artsy Fartsy Mama, Living Well Spending Less, My Turn (for Us), The Best Blog Recipes, Craftionary, Tidy Mom, Home Maid Simple, One Tough Mother, 504 Main, Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons, Happy Hour Projects, Living Better Together, Food Done Light, Dear Creatives, The Wondering Brain, Cheerios and Lattes, Or So She Says, It's Overflowing, Life on Lakeshore Drive, Suburbs Mama, Twig Studios, Thrifty Nifty Things, Flamingo Toes, Navy Wifey Peters, VMG206, Titi Crafty, Cooking For the Seven Dwarfs, Who Needs a Cape, Summer's Scraps, The Velvet Moon Baker, Your Homebased Mom, Spatulas on Parade, My Mixing Spoon, Craft-O-Maniac, The Chicken Chick, This Gal Cooks, A Pinch of Joy, Boogieboard Cottage, Boogieboard Cottage, Keep It Simple, Alderberry Hill, DIY Home Sweet Home, Say Not to Sweet Anne, Lines Across, Flour Me with Love, Under the Table and Dreaming, Cozy Little House, Home Stories A to Z, Table for 7, Mandy's Recipe Box, Jam Hands, This Silly Girl's Life

Other Fun Drinks you Might Enjoy:

Liquid Lime Lifesaver Cocktail

Butterscotch Banana Harvest Cake with Apple Butter Maple Sauce Recipe

Hola Amigos! Happy to have you join me and share a piece of this gooey cake with me! As you can see, I'm getting better with the "bundt' pan and so far no other accidents.
I have a hard time giving this cake a name..why..because it's really put together with all the things I love other than chocolate. It reminds me of fall because of some of the ingredients but you could actually have it all year long! It's good anytime and with everything.  Here is the recipe:

Butterscotch Banana Harvest Cake with Maple Apple Butter Sauce

1 Box Yellow Cake

1 box (3.5 oz)  Butterscotch Instant Pudding

1 (6 oz) Container Banana Yogurt

2 Ripened Bananas, Pureed 

1/2 Cup Butterscotch Chips 

Banana Chips for garnish (optional)

Heat you oven at 350 F or according box instructions. As a suggestion, substitute the amount of water called in the recipe for apple juice. Mix ingredients called on the box until moistened. Add yogurt, pudding and bananas. Mix for about 2 minutes as called in the recipe. Fold in the Butterscotch chips and bake according to the box instructions.

Garnish with Banana Chips and drizzle with Mapple Applebutter Sauce

 Apple Butter Maple  Sauce

1 Cup Apple Juice

3/4 Cup Maple syrup

3 TBSP Brown Sugar

1 1/2 Tsp Lemon Juice

1 Cinnamon Stick

3 Tablespoons Apple Butter

3 TBSP Butter

3/4 Cup Butterscotch  Chips 

In a sauce pan on medium heat, add Apple juice, Maple Syrup, brown sugar Lemon and Cinnamon and let this simmer for about 5 minutes without letting in boil. Remove Cinnamon Stick and add Apple Butter and Butter, simmer for another 2 minutes. Finally add the Butterscotch chips and bring to a slow simmer and boil until it thickens enough to coat a spoon. It is not going to be a thick sauce while it's hot, it thickens as it cools. 

Once it has cooled drizzle it liberally on your cake.

Listo,

The cake is delicious even without the Apple Butter Maple Sauce!

So good, my hubs couldn't resist having it sitting there waiting to be photographed and had a slice of it!!!

Needless to say I pretty much took it out of his mouth and send him to "blogger hubby retraining camp" LOL

I figured this would be the perfect cake to welcome the fist days of fall. You can find it's ingredients anytime of the year!

Thank you so much for your kind visit. Let's keep enjoying our summer...after all this cake has a good dose of bananas to take you back to your tropical summer vacation mood with every bite!

Keep in mind my dear friends, everything you do tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Sharing some Harvest Cake at these Fabulous Parties:

The Princess and her Cowboys, Cooking for the Seven Dwarfs, A Pinch of Joy, The Plaid and Paisley Kitchen, Jam Hands, Boogie Board Cottage, Mad in Crafts, Making the World Cuter, Feeding Big, Love Grows Wild, The Blackberry Vine, Pint Sized Baker, Kathe with an E, Nap-Time Creations, Coastal Charm, Sugar Bee Crafts, Today's Creative Blog, Mandy's Recipe Box, My Mixing Spoon, I Gotta Try That, Love Bakes Good Cakes, Cozy Little House, Smart School House, Thank You Honey, Daisy Cottage Designs, Ducks'n a Row, The Lady Behind the Curtain, Ginger Snap Crafts, The Style Sisters, Twin Dragonfly Designs, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, Worthing Court, Life with the Crust Cut Off, Rose Chintz Cottage, Trendy Tree House, The Mandatory Mooch, Real Coake.com, The Crafty Blog Stalker, Live Laugh Rowe, 52 Mantels, Saving 4 Six, House of Hepworths, Sew Crafty Angel, A Handful of Everything, Living Well, Spending Less, Artsy Fartsy Mama, Consider Me Inspired, The Best Blog Recipes, Craftionary, Naptime Crafters, Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons, The Answer is Chocolate, Living Better Together, The Jenny Evolution, Becoming Martha, Happy Hour Projects, Rooted in Thyme, Home Maid Simple, One Tough Mother, Tidy Mom, 504 Main, The Pin Junkie, My Turn (for Us), Love and Laundry, Happy and Blessed Home, Chef Picky Kid and Me, The Wondering Brain, Lovely Crafty Blog, A Little Claireification, Homemade Ginger, 4 Little Fergusons, 30 Handmade Days, Five Days 5 Ways, Dessert Now, Dinner Later, 4 You with Love, Angles Homestead, Be Different Act Nomal, Too Much Time on my Hands, Cheerios and Lattes, It's Overflowing, Serenity You, Mama Gab, Spatulas on Parade, Life on Lakeshore Drive, Bowdabra, Titi Crafty, WCFS, Crate with Joy, Frugal Foodie Mama, Claire Justine oxox, Uncommon Designs, Alderberry Hill, Flour Me with Love, Keeping It Simple, Sew Can Do, Cupcake-n-Bake, Jembellish, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, The Chicken Chick, Craft-o-Maniac, Huckleberry Love, Under the Table and Dreaming, Ms enPlace, My Romantic Home, I Heart Naptime, All She Cooks, Six Sister's Stuff, Esskunst, Cheerios and Lattes, My Sweet Mission, Gina's Craft Corner

Apple Pie Dessert Pizza Recipe

Hola Amigos! I'm so disappointed at myself for not having 1 single decoration or something special for the 4th of July! Shame on me! I honestly just haven't got a chance to sit down and craft anything! What I've been doing a lot of is cooking and just had a literal "last minute thought" and decided to cook up something to celebrate such a magnificent date.
What is more representative of our American Culture than Apple Pie! Songs, Poems, Sayings have been created around this little pastry, so I think it deserves a place of honor in the upcoming celebration!
Keep in mind this is last minute and was made with things I had at hand. No major baking or preparation, but  easy and quick ....just one thing though, don't say it out loud because your guest are not going to believe you when you tell them how you put it together!
All of the items, but the apples came from the Dollar Store! oh yeah baby, one of my favorite places ever! Who says you can't create deliciousness on a budget! Here is the recipe.

Apple Pie Dessert Pizza 

1 Personal  Pre Made Cinnamon Crust

1 Green Apple Cubed

3 TBSP Brown Sugar

1 half of  a Lemon juiced

1 tsp flour

1 TBSP Cinnamon Applesauce (optional)

1/4 tsp Cinnamon or more to taste

1 Pinch Nutmeg

A handful of crushed Candy'n Cookies or your favorite 

Mini Marshmallows 

Caramel topping or Caramel Candies

Note: Ingredients are for 1 personal pizza, just double for more.

Heat oven at 450F.
Combine your cubed apples with all the ingredients except the crushed cookies, marshmallows and caramel.

Bake this mix in an oven resistant bowl for 10 minutes. Test for doneness of the apples after this time, depending on your oven or personal taste if you like them mushier bake them some more.
Remove your Pizza from the wrapping and place the hot apple mix on it. Top it with the crushed cookies and bake at 450 for 3 to 3 1/2 minutes. Remove and top it with your marshmallows, place the pizza back in the oven  for the marshmallows to get brown,  for an additional 2 minutes.

Remove from oven, let it cool for 1 minute and serve!
Listo,

I melted some Vanilla Caramels that I had around with a little bit of heavy cream and drizzle this mix on top of my marshmallows!

Delish!!!!

As you can see friends, I'm sure you have every thing you need for this recipe in your pantry, fridge or purse (yeah.....I carry a bag of chocolate and caramels in my purse...don't judge, lol) with the exception perhaps of the cute mini cinnamon crust from the dollar store.
It's crispy and sweet at the same time!

Between prep and cooking time I'll say your personal Apple Pie Pizza is done in 20 minutes! Isn't that fantastic?

With a glass of milk or vanilla ice cream it's delicious!

Hope you enjoy my little Apple Pizza Pie! It was fun to make and delicious to eat!
Happy Birthday America! and remember that no matter where you reside in this beautiful country of ours, if you are overseas or if you are not american by birth but believe in the values and people of this great country, everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

P.S here is a sneak preview of the tomorrow's post, wink, wink

Besitos,
Lizy

Joining the Patriotic celebrations at these Fabulous Parties:
Golden Reflections
Bowdabra
Sweet 2 Eat Baking
Natasha in Oz
Rattlebridge Farm
Living Better Together
My Turn (for Us)
Handy Man, Crafty Woman
Ducks' n a Row
Adorned from Above
Dragonfly Designs
Clean and Scentsible

The Plaid and Paisley Kitchen
The Dedicated House
Feeding Big
Tasty Tuesday's
Cozy Little House
Memories by the Mile
Hun...what's for dinner
Pint Sized Baker
I Gotta Try That
My Home away from Home
Love Bakes Good Cakes
Opulent Cottage
Fluster Buster
Mom's Test Kitchen
Family Home and Life
This Silly Girl's Life
Real Coake.com
Sparkles and a Stove
French Country Cottage
My Romantic Home
Love and Laundry
Do Small Things with Love
Kitchen fun with my 3 Sons
Simply Designing
Dear Creatives
Diana Rambles
The Mandatory Mooch
Krative Creationz
Let's this Mind be in You
The Home Girl
Just Us Four
Dessert Now, Dinner Later
The Wondering Brain
Sew Licious Home Decor
Classy Clutter
Serenity You
Chef in Training
Life on Lakeshore Drive
Kathe with an E
Sugar Bee Crafts
Love Grows Wild
The Blackberry Vine
Golden Reflections
Designing Dining + Diapers
Townsend House
twelve o eight
Pursuit of Functional Home
Happy and Blessed Home
Liz Marie's Blog
A Simple Five
The Shabby Nest
It's Overflowing
I Should be Mopping the Floors
Designed Decor
Foodie Friends Friday
Sew Many Ways