Apple Cakes

Apple cake made it to all the holiday parties hosted at our place this year. I found it on SmittenKitchen and was totally smitten by it. Tried it on Thanks giving, then again for another party and in mini cup cake form for the New years.



This is one of those recipies that would not go wrong however you mix them as long as the proportions are correct.

I adjusted the proportions to my pan size.
For 9" circular pan used
3 apples, I used Gala
1 tbs cinnamon
5 tbs sugar

1.5 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
0.5 tsp salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup orange juice
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs

Method as described in SmittenKitchen

Smell of cinnamon and sugar hmmmmmm....

Raining blue berries

Blue berries are in season. I have used blue berries in pancake's, waffle's, buckle, muffin's, salad's and cobbler. Then it was my daughter who came up with the idea of adding blue berries to cookies. Actually it was not a bad idea. So just turned the oatmeal raisin cookie to oatmeal blue berry cookies.



Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp powdered cinnamon
1-1/2 cups oats
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2 tbsp honey
1/2 cup blue berries
Preheat oven to 350C.
First mix all dry ingredients. Cream butter and sugar then add egg and honey. Mix thoroughly. Slowly stir in the dry ingredients followed by blue berries. Spoon cookie dough to the cookie sheet leaving enough space for cookies to melt. Bake for about 8 to 10 mins. The cookies should be of chewy consistency and not crispy. Cool them on a cooling rack.

Another blue berry dish!
Blue Berry Cobbler, great with ice cream.


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Yummy Blueberry Buckle

Wow! this was really amazing and I'm so proud of the results.

Recipe from SimplyRecipes





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Baked Chicken Pasta

Another one dish dinner.

Ingredients -
cooked pasta/onions/garlic/tomatoes/zucchini/cooked chicken/basil/salt/pepper/mozzarella & parmesan cheese

In a skillet cook onions and garlic. When the onions turn translucent add zucchini followed by cooked chicken and tomatoes. Add salt and pepper. When the veggies are cooked (browned) mix in cooked pasta. Transfer the pasta and veggies to a baking dish and layer with parmesan and mozzarella cheese. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until bubbly.

Berry Muffins

Two days old strawberries were lying untouched in the fruit basket with no one showing interest to consume. Any withered berries and bananas can be used for making muffins. I got this recipe from Joy Of Baking. One thing I liked about this particular recipe is it did not need any butter so with no much planning and prep work the muffins were ready in few minutes.

The ingredients are all-purpose flour/granulated white sugar/baking powder/baking soda/salt/zest of orange/egg/buttermilk/canola oil/vanilla extract/strawberries

The procedure is like any other muffin mix dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately and then mix them together or in other words fold them with no lumps and towards the end add the berries and fold.



Adopted the same recipe for Blueberry Muffins. The result was awesome.

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Strawberry bread

This week we met some old friends after a long time. I took strawberry bread along for the dinner. The texture of the bread is almost like cake but since the amount of sugar is less it is nice to have it along with ice cream.

I took the recipie from Joy Of Baking

The leftover bread was a nice snack with evening tea.

PB & J Muffins

Peanut Butter and Jam Muffin is a very quick breakfast with readily available ingredients. The total time to cook was only 10 min prep and 15 Min's baking. This is another substitute to peanut butter jelly sandwich.

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
1 large egg
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup jelly or preserve
1/6 cup veg. oil

For topping: sugar

Sift flour with salt and baking soda. To this sifted flour add egg, milk, sugar, peanut butter and oil. Fold gently till moist. Do not beat!!. Scoop the folded mix to muffin cups and top it with jelly and sugar. Bake at 375F for 15 mins if using mini muffin cups, for regular size muffins bake for 20 mins.