Apple Pie

Nice and simple apple pie.

So I was looking at pie crust recipes in my King Arthur Flour Book (The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook by Brianna B. Sands)

Ken Haedrick's Three Grain Butter Pastry

1/2 cup yellow cornmeal (preferably stone ground) [I used Quaker]
1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats (or at flour) [I used Quaker rolled oats]
1 1/2 cup Flour (I used Gold Metal)
1 Tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
14 tablespoons butter
1 egg yolk
3 1/2 to 4 1/2 tablespoons ice water [each type of flour absorbs water differently, for what Gold Metal flour I used about 6 tablespoons of water]

Put cornmeal and rolled oats into a blender and pulse the machine, on and off, until oat flakes are reduced to small flecks; a few remaining larger pieces are fine. (Do this only if using rolled oats rather than oat flour)

Transfer to a larger bowl and stir in the flour, sugar, and salt. Cut the butter into the dry ingredients. It should resemble coarse bread crumbs with some larger pieces the size of a pea.

Beat egg yolk and 3 tablespoons of water and sprinkle over mixture. If the dough is too dry and one tablespoon at a time until it holds together and is damp, not tacky.

refrigerate 1/2 hour before rolling out.

For the filling I used 6 Granny Smith apples, sprinkled with some sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a bit of ginger, and dropped a little butter over the top.

I also rubbed the top crust with water and the covered it with cinnamon-sugar.

I baked it at 450f for 15 minutes and then lowered the oven temp to 350f for 15 minutes.

I did bake it for 8 more minutes, it could have gone longer.

Caramel Apple Bunt

So yeah I have not baked in a while! I made this yummy creation last weekend

Cake
2 1/4 Cup Flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
3/4
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 cup butter, softened
4 eggs
teaspoons vanilla
3/4 cup milk
Sauce
1 cup butter
1/2
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla

directions
1. Heat oven to 350ºF. Grease bottom and side of 12-cup fluted tube cake pan or 10-inch angel food (tube cake) pan with shortening; lightly flour. In medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
2. In large bowl, beat 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, the granulated sugar and softened butter with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on medium speed about 5 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally, until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add 2 teaspoons vanilla. Beat in flour mixture alternately with 3/4 cup milk on low speed until smooth. Pour into pan.
3. Bake 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 2 hours.
4. Meanwhile, in 2-quart saucepan, heat sauce ingredients except vanilla to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly; boil and stir 2 minutes. Remove from heat; cool to room temperature. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla. Serve warm sauce with cake.


notes:
• Extra special sauce. 13 Caramels, 1/2 cup of butter 1/4 cup of brown sugar, 1 tablespoon (+) of milk, 1/2T light corn syrup, 3( -ish) T [Caramel] Apple Butter Melt all ingredients together, bring to a boil for 2-3 minutes. Take off heat and put in a cinnamon stick and let seep while the cake is baking.
• Cinnamon-Apple cake. 2-3 apples, chopped small, fold in after cake is all mixed. Pout half the batter into pan, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and then top with remaning batter. When cake comes out of oven brush a small amount Extra Special Sauce on. Remeber to reverve some to you can top the cake slices. {amazing warm}

So that is all of it. I the extra stuff :p take a look under notes

Caramel-Apple Cookies with Pecans

So I was looking for a caramel-apple cookie recipe with chunks of apples and caramels but could not find any, so what is a girl to do? Make one up! I found a basic recipe (I don't remember where anymore) and just adapted it.

ingredients
1 cup butter
2 cups packed brown sugar (I used light)
2 each eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
Cinnamon and nutmeg to taste (lol I just sprinkled it in)
1 tsp. baking soda
20 caramels, quartered (and don't forget to remove the plastic :p)
1 medium apple ( a heaping cup) finely diced
1 cup chopped pecans
OPTIONAL: 1 Tbsp liquid, in case you need to loosen the batter. I used milk.

directions
1. cream butter and sugar
2. add 1 egg at a time until incorporated, add vanilla
3. add dry ingredients
4. add caramels, apples, and pecans (you may need to do this by hand)

I lined my tray with parchment paper due to the fact that caramel melts and make a gooey-hot mess.

bake at 350ºF for 16 minutes.

ENJOY!

Mudslide Cupcakes

Same recipe I used for the other mixed drink cupcakes. Except I used the TGiFriday's Mudslide mix and added about 8oz of the mix in place of the fruit concentrate

Onion Garlic-y dip, soup thing

This is yesterday's pic todays try came out a little thinner, not much. Since this is very savory I have no measurements

basically sautéed a couple of onions, get them get some nice color. Roasted some garlic until nice and soft and then chopped it into a paste. Once the onions are almost done add in the garlic. season with salt and pepper. One that is all done add some heavy cream and let thicken. Put a giant heaping tablespoon of cream cheese add in hot onions and garlic mixture.

I like eating it Ritz crackers. You can eat how ever you want.

Peach Cobbler

So this weekend we and my family went to Vermont. One of my aunts brought some home grown peaches so we made peach cobbler....with Bisquick.

1 cup (+) Bisquick
1 cup sugar
to taste cinnamon
1 cup milk
7(ish) peaches

cinnamon/sugar mix (topping)


so when I made it I added in a bunch more bisquick to make it a little thicker

bake it at 400ºF for about 30 minutes

and of course you need ice cream with hot peach cobbler!!

Danish Raspberry Cookies

I got the recipe from a web site called Cookie Recipes "Your Source for Cookie Recipes Online" here is the recipe. I only made a couple small changes and that was I did not roll it into a log. I took a small ice cream scoop this is the size I used. I LOVE it! two scoop of it (or 1 2oz) is the perfect cookie, but for these one scoop was perfect!

....and... 1/3 are raspberry, 1/3 are Hershey's Hot Fudge topping and the last 1/2 are caramel. But and flavor that goes well with chocolate would be great!

Oh yes, and I doubled the recipe

[by the way...going clock wise starting at the stop the flavors go: Raspberry, Chocolate, and Caramel]

Biscuits and Gravy

I got the recipe from I got the recipe from A Passion for Baking by Marcy Goldman (again)

The original recipe was Giant Sweet Cheddar Biscuits (I added in some scallions)

2 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into chunks
1/2 cup shredded medium or sharp cheddar cheese (I used the 4 cheese pre shredded stuff)
{To Taste (or omit) scallions}
1 large egg
2/3 cup, approximately, milk
1 cup generous, 1/2-inch chunks sharp cheddar cheese (since I was using pre shredded and since the diced cheese has more volume I only added in an additional 1/2 cup of shredded, it worked out very well)
Melted, butter for brushing
flour, for dusting

Preheat oven to 425F

in a bowl add flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and blend. Rub in butter. Make well and add in the egg and half the milk and mix. Then slowly add in the other milk until the dough is stiff, you could have some left, if you added too much add in a dusting of flour. Add in the remaining cheese.

Dump onto a floured surface. Roll out until 3/4-inch and cut into rounds with a cutter or glass (you also press into pan an make square and half way threw cooking process score to the size you want.

brush tops with melted butter (the recipe said to add flour but I skipped that)

Bake for 17-22 minutes, mine only took 15 minutes since they were smaller than suggested.

Milk Gravy

(from Paula Deen)

1/4 cup bacon grease

1/4 cup ap flour

1-1/2 cup warmed milk

1/4 teaspoon salt (I added more)

1/4 teaspoon pepper

2 Tablespoons melted butter

okay so Paula said to make in cast iron skillet....but since I don't have one...my dad made bacon for breakfast to I took the grease.

so what I did was warm the pot and the add the grease and let it warm for a short time more and then add the flour and whisk until smooth and bubbly about 1 minute. Slowly add warm milk and bring to boil. Reduce heat and bring to a low simmer and stir until thickened about 5 minutes, you can add more milk to adjust the thickness. Stir in melted butter (my add) and salt and pepper.

smooth them biscuits and enjoy!!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I so did not have enough chocolate chips for I threw in some butterscotch chips and pecans to make up the difference.

I got the recipe from A Passion for Baking by Marcy Goldman

Tender, Buttery Chocolate Chunk Cookies

yield: 3-4 dozen

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

2 large eggs

2 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoons salt

3 cups chocolate chips (or any other "garnish")

Preheat oven to 350F

In a mixer bowl, cream butter and both sugars until very smooth, about 3 to 4 minutes. Add vanilla and eggs blend well. Fold in flour, baking soda, and salt and mix well about 2 to 3 minutes. Fold in the chocolate chips

Bake for 10-13 minutes for smaller cookies and 14-18 minutes for larger cookies.

I like using ice cream scoops, I have a I think a 3 Tablespoon one I love it!

Madelines!

ingredients

6 each eggs

4 cups flour

1 1/2 cups sugar

2/3 cup milk (divided)

2 t baking powder

12 T butter, melted

2 t vanilla

directions

1. beat egg, sugar, vanilla, and half the milk until think & light yellow

2. combine flour & baking powder, add a little at a time

3. Stir in remaning milk & butter

4. Bake @ 375F for 15 minutes

I added in crushed almonds but I have added in so much more. I even made bigger batched and divide the and stir in flavors to make them different.

very easy to half this recipe! but the only thing is you need a madeleine pan. I have the silicon ones, they on down fall is the brown spots from where it rests on the baking sheet, but they were on sale! These are little babies took a flight with me from North Carolina

Dust with powdered sugar to look nice and cute for a function or eat right out of the oven.