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Showing posts with label Autumn Treats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Autumn Treats. Show all posts

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Apple Fritter Rings

  • 4 large apples
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 large eggbeaten
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3/4 cup whole milk

  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Line a baking sheet with paper towels; set aside.Slice the apples into 1/4-inch-thick rounds. Remove and discard the center core of each slice with a tiny cookie cutter or apple corer. Pat the slices dry.In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Add in the egg, vanilla, and buttermilk; stir until just combined and thick.Add about 2 inches of oil to a large heavy-bottomed pan set over medium heat, until it reaches 350 degrees F.Dip each apple ring into the batter, shaking off any excess. Carefully lower the ring into the oil. Fry 3 to 4 rings at a time without them touching, for about 1 to 2 minutes per side, or until golden, regulating the heat at 350F in between batches.Using tongs, transfer them to the paper towels.Repeat the process with the remaining apple slices.While still warm, coat them with the cinnamon-sugar mixture. 

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Coffee Cake Cookies

3/4 C. butter
3/4 C. sugar
1/4 C. Brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/4 C. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp salt

Crumble
3 Tbls. cold cubed butter
1/2 C. flour
1/3 C. brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon

Icing
1/2 C. powdered sugar
1 Tbls. milk

Preheat oven to 350*. In a large bowl add your soft butter and sugars.  Cream on medium speed for 3 minutes or until light in color.  Add your egg and vanilla and mix on medium for 2 minutes.

Once your wet ingredients are completely combined add in your dry.  Mix on low speed until all dry bits are incorporated and your dough is formed.

Using a 2 Tbls. cookie scoop, scoop 16 cookie's onto a lined baking sheet. Using a 1 tsp. measuring spoon press a small hole into your cookie centers.  Make your crumble by adding the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and cold butter into a bowl, mixing with hand until a sand like texture forms.  Add your crumble to each cookie.  Bake for 11-13 minutes. Allow to cool slightly and then drizzle with icing. 

Cinnamon Roll Apple Bake

1 can cinnamon rolls
1 can apple pie filling
a few Tbls. of heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
4 Tbls. butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350*. In a round glass pie pan drizzle heavy whipping cream.  Cut the cinnamon rolls into 4 pieces each and lay over the bottom of the pan.  With a knife I chop up the apple pie filling while it's in the can, then scoop evenly over cinnamon roll pieces.  Melt butter and stir in flour and brown sugar til crumbly.  Sprinkle over the top and bake for 30 minutes.  Once baked, drizzle the cinnamon roll frosting over the top.


Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Apple Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Icing

2 1/4 C. Flour, spooned and leveled
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. allspice
1/8 tsp. cloves
2/3 C. vegetable oil
2 eggs
3/4 C. brown sugar, packed
3/4 C. granulated sugar
1/2 C. sour cream
1 tsp. pure vanilla
2-3 large honey crisp apples, grated not diced (about 1.5 C.)

Brown Sugar Icing
1/4 C. salted butter
1/2 C. dark brown sugar, packed
2 Tbls. heavy cream
1/2 tsp. pure vanilla
1 C. powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350*. line a 9*9-inch nonstick pan with parchment paper and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. In another bowl whish together oil, eggs, brown sugar, sour cream, vanilla and granulated sugar.  Combine the wet with dry ingredients and then fold in grated apples. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool in pan fo 10 minutes, then move to a wire rack.  To make the glace, melt the butter, brown sugar and cream.  Whisk until combined, bring to a gentle boil. Remove from heat and whisk in vanilla and powdered sugar, Pour over the top of the cake. Enjoy

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

3 1/2 C. flour
1/4 C. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. sea salt
3/4 C. milk
1 egg
1 C. pumpkin puree
4 Tbls. butter
2 1/4 tsp, instant yeast + 1/3 C. warm water + 1 tsp. honey
1 C. heavy cream

FILLING
1/2 C. brown sugar
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
4 Tbls. butter, melted for brushing dough

FROSTING
1/4 C. maple syrup
2 C. Powdered Sugar
2 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 C. milk

Warm milk and butter for about 2 minutes in the microwave, let cool slightly.  In a mixing bowl combine warm milk, sugar, yeast, egg, and pumpkin.  Mix well.  Add flour and salt.  Using a Kitchen aid with dough hood knead 5-8 minutes until dough becomes smooth and elastic.  Place dough in a large, buttered bowl, cover with plastic and a towel and let rise at room temperature until doubled.  Preheat oven to 350*. Butter a 9*13 pan, on a lightly floured surface roll dough into a 14*12-inch rectangle.  Brush with melted butter.  Mix cinnamon, sugar, sprinkle evenly over dough.  Roll tightly from the long side, then cut into 9 even rolls. Place rolls in buttered dish. Cover with plastic wrap and let double again.  Pour the heavy cream around the rolls right before baking.  Bake for 35 minutes, or until golden.  Remove from oven and let cool slightly.  Make frosting by whisking together maple syrup, powdered sugar, cream cheese and milk until smooth.  Spread on top and enjoy.

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Rhubarb Shortbread Bars

BASE
1 cup butter
3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4  cup sugar

FILLING
3 large eggs
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 Tbls. cornstarch
1 tsp. lemon extract
1/2 tsp. salt
5 Tbls. flour
3 cups finely diced rhubarb
Powdered Sugar for dusting


Preheat oven to 350°FIn a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar and butter. Mix until crumbly, then press firmly into the bottom of a greased and parchment lined 9×13″ pan.  Bake for 20 minutes, until the crust is lightly golden.  While baking make the filling.

In a separate bowl with a hand whisk, stir together the filling ingredients (all but rhubarb)  and than fold in the chopped fruit. Pour mixture over the pre-baked shortbread crust. Bake again for 35 minutes. Remove from oven and dust with powdered sugar .  Allow to cool completely before cutting. 

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Apple Fritter Bites

1 1/2 C. flour
1/3 C. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
pinch of salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/3 C. whole milk
2 large eggs
3 Tbls. applesauce 
2 Large peeled Granny smith apples, diced
If you want the zest of orange in it that is optional, I do this on occasion.

GLAZE
2 C. powdered sugar
1/4 C. milk
1 tsp. vanilla

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon in a bowl.  Add milk, eggs, and applesauce and blend with hand mixer.  Add apples and stir.

Heat oil in a pan, drop Tablespoons into oil and cook about 2 1/2 minutes than flip and cook another 2 1/2 minutes, or until golden brown.

Let cool on paper towels.  I place mine on parchment paper afterward.  Mix glaze ingredients and pour over the top of each fritter.  Enjoy.  


Sunday, October 15, 2023

Apple mug cake

 

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup milk room temperature
4 tablespoons butter melted & cooled
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 granny smith apple sliced and liberally tossed with cinnamon sugar
2 Tbls caramel

  • In a small bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and cinnamon.  Add in milk, butter, and vanilla, whisking well. Spray 2 large microwave safe bowls add  1/4 of the dough to each bowl, spread flat. Layer with half the apples to each. Add 1 Tbls of caramel to each bowl, then add remainder of dough last. I like to take a butter, knife and kind of swirl everything together. Sprinkle with a little cinnamon sugarMicrowave on high 1.5 – 2 minutes for each bowl.  * Top with whipped cream or vanilla ice-cream

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Warm Gingerbread Cake with Caramel Sauce

9 Tbls. butter, softened
1/3 C. Sugar
1 C. molasses
1 egg
2 1/4 C flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 C. water

Caramel Sauce
1 C. brown sugar
1 Tbls. cornstarch
1 C. cold water
1/4 C. butter
1 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 325*.  Grease a 9" pan.  In a kitchen aid mixer, cream butter and sugar til fluffy.  Beat in molasses and egg.  Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt.  Add the water slowly.  Pour the cake batter into the pan and bake for 35-40 minutes.  Let cool on wire rack.

Caramel Sauce: In a medium pan, combine brown sugar and cornstarch, add the water and bring to a boil until the sauce starts to thicken, about 2 minutes.  Remove from heat and stir in butter and vanilla, whisk til smooth.  Serve over cake, top with Whipped cream if desired.

Thursday, September 16, 2021

Cran-Orange Muffins


  • 2 cups dried cranberries rehydrated (reserve liquid)
  • 2/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 1/4 cups sugar
  • Zest of one orange
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cups orange juice fresh
  • 1 cup cranberry liquid (what you used to rehydrate)
  • 1 tsp. Orange extract  
  • 4 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp, salt
Glaze
  • 1/4 cup water or orange juice
  • 1/2 tsp. orange extract 
  • 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
In microwave safe bowl add cranberries to 1 1/2 cup water, cook 2 minutes. Let sit while you prepare zest. Add sugar to a bowl and zest one orange into it. When ready take cranberries out of liquid reserving juice, pat them dry on towel. put them in the the sugar, coat them and place into ninja to pulverize, set aside. 
In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, and salt.
In Kitchen-aid,  mix together together oil, prepared  sugar, egg and orange extract.
Combine your flour mixture with your sugar mixture, then slowly add orange juice and one cup reserved cranberry-liquid 
Pour into 24 greased cupcake pans, and bake 21-24 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean
Let cool 3 minutes in the pan, remove and let finish cooling. 
Make glaze and dip the tops into it

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Frosted Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodles
















1 Cup Butter, softened
1 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar Packed
1/2 Cup Sugar
2/3 Cup Pumpkin Puree
2 Eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
4 C. Flour
2 tsp. corn starch
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 cups chocolate chips
*4 Tbls sugar + 2 tsp. cinnamon for Rolling

Frosting:
4 Tbls. Cream Cheese
1 tsp. vanilla
2-4 Tbls milk (until desired consistency)
1 1/2 Cups powdered sugar
Mix with hand mixer, place in a ziplock bag, cut corner and drizzle onto cooled cookies
 
In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the softened butter, brown sugar, white sugar, pumpkin, egg and vanilla extract. 
In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. 
Fold in chocolate chips. Chill cookie dough batter for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 400°F. Roll the dough into large tablespoon size balls.  Mix together the sugar and cinnamon and roll each cookie dough ball in the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
Arrange the cookies on baking sheets, and slightly press down with a jar.
Bake for 8 minutes. Cookies will look very soft when you take them out.
Let them rest on the cookie sheet for 2-3 minutes, reroll the tops in sugar/cinnamon mixture and transfer to a cooling rack.  Makes 48 Cookies. 


Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Gingerbread cookies

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  1. • 2 teaspoons ground ginger
  2. • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  3. • 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  4. • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
  5. • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  6. • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  7. • 1 cup white sugar
  8. • 1 egg
  9. • 1 tablespoon water
  10. • 1/4 cup molasses
  11. • 4 tablespoons white sugar

Preheat oven to 350F.
  1. Mix together the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and salt. Set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy.
  3. Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and molasses.
  4. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture.
  5. Shape the dough into walnut sized balls, and roll them in the remaining 4 tablespoons of sugar.
  6. Place the cookies 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. You don't need to flatten them.
  7. Bake for 10-12 minutes in the preheated oven.
  8. Allow cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
  9. Makes approximately 30 cookies. Store in an airtight container.

Gingerbread cake

  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1 cup hot water
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Greased and flour (important!) one 9 inch square pan. 
  2. Cream together the sugar and butter. Add egg, and beat well. Mix in the molasses. 
  3. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and clove. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture; add the hot water, and mix well. 
  4. Pour batter into pan and bake for one hour, more or less. Start checking with a toothpick in the centre around 50 minutes. The top tends to darken quickly, so I always put a piece of foil tented over the top during baking. Allow to cool in pan and serve with whipped cream.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Perfect Pumpkin Pie

1 -9 inch unbaked pastry shell
1 -15 ounce can pumpkin
1 -14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. salt

Crust (homemade or bought)


Preheat oven to 425*. Beat pumpkin, milk, eggs, spices and salt. Pour into crust. Bake 15 minutes. Reduce oven to 350* and bake an additional 35-40 minutes. Cool, serve with whipped cream and enjoy!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Pumpkin Bars

4 eggs
1/2 c. vegetable oil
1/2 c. apple sauce
2 c. sugar
1 -15 oz. can pumpkin
2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. cloves

FROSTING
4 oz. cream cheese
3 Tbls. soft butter
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/4 c. powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350*. Combine first 5 ingredients. using a wire whisk, mix flour, powder, soda,salt and spices. Add to pumpkin mixture, mix well. Pour into floured and greased 15*10 pan. Bake for 25 minutes (if doubling the recipe bake 2 pans for 37 min). Cool and frost. Cut into bars