My Casa Bella

COME IN THE EVENING, OR COME IN THE MORNING;

COME WHEN YOU'RE LOOK'D FOR,

OR COME WITHOUT WARNING.

KISSES AND WELCOME YOU'LL FIND BEFORE YOU,

AND THE OFTENER YOU COME HERE

THE MORE I'LL ADORE YOU!

-Thomas Osbourne Davis



Welcome To My Casa Bella

My Casa Bella- means-my beautiful home- but it can mean so many other things. How you make your home a home. The sounds of children or pets playing. The aroma of scones in the oven or a lilac candle burning. The flowers blooming in your garden. The home grown vegetables ready to be picked. Grandma's quilt at the foot of the bed. A fire to curl up to with a good book. Or just a family spending time together with love, laughter and a good time.





















Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Blogging and Baking

As I sit on my couch, blog surfing and updating my blog, I thought today would be a good day to bake. Something with apples since I had four apples leftover from my weekend of peeling and slicing. I peeled and sliced 24 apples, thank goodness I have one of those apple peeler, corer and slicer....I hate peeling by hand. Then I make an apple pie sauce that you pour over the apples and toss them in. YUMMY! The best apple pie ever, I think. So I froze 3 bags of apple pie filling and I had some leftover apples and thought I'd make one of my other favorite apple desserts: Cinnamon Apple Cake, courtesy of Cooking Light Magazine:

I know the image is blurry, so I'll type it out for you.

Your dry and wet ingredients
So first off, you'll cream together:
1 1/2 cups of sugar
3/4 Cup of block style creamcheese(Cooking Light uses Neufachetl but I didn't have any so I used the regular)softend
1 Stick of softend butter
1 t Vanilla
Beat together until creamy and well combined
Then add 2 eggs, one at a time until well combined
I just realized my pictures are displayed backwards. OOPS! The dry ingredients are next, which is the fourth picture down. Sorry.
Dry Ingredients:
1 1/2 Cups of flour
1 1/2 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
mix in seperate bowl then add to wet ingredients a little at a time, making sure its thoroughly combined between each addition. The batter is pretty thick.
Now your apples.
Peel, and chop apples to make 3 cups.
In a small bowl combine:
2 t cinnamon
1/4 cup of sugar
You will then toss half of this mixture with the apples until well coated.
Then you will spray your 8 inch spring form pan and sprinkle with the cinnamon/sugare mixture until pan is completely coated, you should have a little bit of the cinnamon mix left over. Save that for the topping.
Next you will fold apples into batter carefully until just combined. Now pour batter into prepared pan, carefully spread batter in pan then sprinkle remaining cinnamon and sugar over top until covered.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. I did it for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Your home will smell wonderful. The smell of the cinnamon and apples is amazing. Let it cool in pan before removing sides.
There it is.
Now make some coffee or tea and have a big piece. It's great to eat while warm. This dessert is a hit when we have company. It's rustic looking and so moist. I make this several times during fall/winter time. Its quick to make and everyone loves it. Now I'm ready for another big piece. Hope you have a chance to make it, you won't regret it, or maybe you will.....LOL. Enjoy!

6 comments:

  1. Thanks so much for the recipe and tutorial
    for this beautiful and yummie cake !!!!
    Honestly i do not own a spring form pan 'cause
    of lack of confidence on how it is use ( i know...shame
    on me ). But i'm getting one !!!!
    May I link to your recipe & blog next
    time I post on my blog ???

    ReplyDelete
  2. First I have to say love the socks!

    I'm going to try to make this yummy looking cinnamon apple cake, I'll post about when I do and add your blog to the post.

    Can I use a different pan than a spring form pan, I don't have one either.

    Hugs, Melissa

    ReplyDelete
  3. Arlene, I made the cake, I went to the store last night got a pan, made the cake and it is so GOOOOOOD..
    I haven't blogged in awhile just trying to find me after closeing the shop..
    Keeping very busy around my house, I'll be posting more very soon.
    hugs,
    Melissa

    ReplyDelete
  4. Your dessert sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing:)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Thanks for the comments dear, I got both of them.

    Yesterday Jim and I was coming home from Philly, we was talking and brougth up Isaiah 41 about Gods righteous right hand, then when I get home my sister hand the same scripture on her face book page, now I see you put it on your blog, God is so funny how he works.
    Thanks,
    Melissa

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for taking the time to leave me a comment.