We went to a local apple orchard last weekend and came home with 10 pounds of apples and some raspberries. I thought it would be a fun family outing, and while it was I then had 10 pounds of apples to deal with (good thing I didn't get the 20 pound bag). So All week I was making different apple and raspberry treats and I am going to share them with all of you my faithful readers.
First I made apple crisp.
I prefer apple crisp to apple pie and it is so much easier. I don't measure things when I bake I just throw things together and apple crisp is a great one to throw together because it doesn't really matter, but for those of you that need a recipe this one from Betty Crocker is similar (pictured above).
4 medium tart cooking apples, sliced (4 cups)
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1/2 cup quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats
1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Cream or Ice cream, if desired
1.Heat oven to 375ºF. Grease bottom and sides of 8-inch square pan with shortening.
2.Spread apples in pan. In medium bowl, stir remaining ingredients except cream until well mixed; sprinkle over apples.
3.Bake about 30 minutes or until topping is golden brown and apples are tender when pierced with a fork. Serve warm with cream.
Next I made Apple, raspberry, mango crumble. The crumble part was the same as the apple crisp recipe, but I coated the fruit (apples, raspberries, and mango) in a little it of sprite. I had noticed that many people put some sugar and lime or lemon juice on their fruit well I didn't have any lime or lemon juice, but I did have lemon-lime soda and really all it is is sugar and lemon and lime flavoring plus the carbonation maybe added a little. Sorry no picture I don't know what I was thinking,probably more about eating it than taking pictures.
Then This past weekend with still at least half our apples left we made carmel apples.
These are such a fun fall treat and not that hard to make. All you need is
5 Apples
1 pkg carmels (the individual wrapped candies)
2 tbsp Water
1 tsp Vanilla
Popsicle sticks
Melt the carmels over the stove with the water and then stir in the vanilla. Take your apple and stick a stick in the stem area and dip the apple in the carmel. I then scrapped off the bottom of the apple on the side of the pot and placed them on greased tin foil. It worked really great for getting them off later.
If all you wanted was a plain Carmel apple then you are done, but you can fancy them up how ever you want. Drizzle melted chocolate over then, roll them in your favor candy or cookie crumb whatever you can come up with have fun. Now I did remember to take pictures of these.
And with the left over Carmel and chocolate we make Carmel chocolate popcorn.
this growing baby inside me making me want to run to the bathroom anytime I sit down to do anything and sucking every ounces of energy so that I sleep whenever my toddler does and for those of you with toddlers know that is usually the only time you have to do any crafting.
a quilt for my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. I thought it would be such a good idea if everyone in our family made a quilt square and I put them together into a quilt. Well it was a good idea, but I did not know that within weeks of agreeing to do this I would become pregnant and thus incapacitated during crafting time.
although it took up all my free time I had left it was worth it and I think it turned out pretty good considering it was only the 3rd quilt I have made and the first one that wasn't an easy beginner quilt. I even did some patchwork for the back of the quilt. I love the material I picked out and thought they looked so pretty together.
For the center of the quilt I got this pattern for the family tree from Twin Stichers I embroidered the main part of the pattern, but for the the people I used sharpie markers because embroidering all those people was a little intimidating for me
Her our the 2 squares I made for my little family. For my square I did some more embroidering and then for my daughter I used a picture of her and did a little designing in photoshop and printed it off. (I also ended up doing this for the rest of my family my dad and brothers did not send me any quilt squares not to surprising)
And here is my cute grandma with her new quilt. I made it for both my grandparents, but we all know my grandma will love it more and she cried when she saw it which made all my hard work worth it.
It would be cute to have lots of different size ones lining the table at thanksgiving with all your yummy food.
How easy is that. I am not sure it will be dishwasher safe, but how hard is it really to wipe of a cake stand.
These are such a fun fall treat and not that hard to make. All you need is
If all you wanted was a plain Carmel apple then you are done, but you can fancy them up how ever you want. Drizzle melted chocolate over then, roll them in your favor candy or cookie crumb whatever you can come up with have fun. Now I did remember to take pictures of these.
