Puffed Apple Pancakes

More apple breakfast ideas!!! This tastes like apple bread pudding in the morning, and so easy to make. This is one of my favorites.

4 large eggs, slightly beaten

3/4 cup whole milk

1 Tablespoon vanilla

1/2 cup whole wheat flour

1/4 cup white unbleached flour

1 hand picked apple - cored, peeled, and thinly sliced (run it through your spiral apple corer/peeler)

1/4 cup sucanat

2 Tablespoons lemon juice

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Oil four 1-cup ramekins. In a bowl, combine eggs, vanilla, milk, and flour until just blended. Batter will be lumpy. Divide evenly among the dishes. Toss apple slices in a bowl with lemon juice and sucanat until coated. Arrange in the center of each dish in an attractive spoked pattern. Sprinkle the tops with cinnamon. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until puffed and golden brown. Top with maple syrup from Geauga County.

Apple Dumplings

Perfect dessert, and leftovers can be breakfast the next morning.

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1 Cup whole wheat Flour 1 Cup unbleached white flour
2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Sea Salt
2/3 (two thirds) Cups Butter
1/2 (one half) Cup Whole Milk 6 Hand picked Apples (about 3 inch diameter) Preheat the oven to 375° Lightly grease a 9" x 13" x 1½" baking dish. Place flour, baking powder and salt in medium size bowl and mix it together with a fork. Chop butter into small squares and cut into the flour mixture. Add Milk and knead into a dough. Roll out the dough 12" x 18". Cut into 6 - 6"x6" squares. Meanwhile, peel and core your apples. If you use a spiral machine, that's great, the apples will cook thoroughly. Otherwise, cut your apples in half. Place the apples in the center of one of the dough squares. Stick 1 small pad of butter on top of the apple, and sprinkle some sucanat and cinnamon on top. Now wrap up the dough around the apple and stick it on your casserole. Do this for the remaining apples. Make a sauce to go on top: (Optional, great without) 1 Cup Sucanat 1 Cup Water 1/8 (one eighth) Teaspoon Cinnamon 2 Tablespoons Butter Place the sucanat, water, & cinnamon in a small saucepan. Bring to boiling point. Add butter or margarine and stir until melted. Remove from heat and set aside.
Place the sauce on top of the apple dumplings before you put them in the oven. Cook the dumplings for 30 minutes, until golden brown. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Apple Cake Dessert

One of my favorite evening snacks during the fall - This is much easier to make than Apple Pie, and to me, much tastier!

Apple Cake

4 to 5 small Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and cut into six equal slices
1 stick butter
3/4 cup sucranat

1 stick butter
2/3 cup sucranat
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 large eggs
1/2 cup sour cream (or Yogurt - either way is great)
3/4 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cups whole wheat flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 small Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, and chopped finely (use an Apple Peeler to do this)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a 9 to 10-inch skillet, melt butter over low heat. Add 3/4 cup sugar to the pan and stir around, then place apple slices, wedge side down, in the pan. Don’t pack them too tightly, but try not to leave overly large gaps. Allow this to cook over low/medium-low heat while you make the cake batter.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat 1 stick of butter and 2/3 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in vanilla and eggs. Add sour cream and mix well. Gradually add flour mixture until just combined. Gently stir in 1 chopped apple.

Remove skillet from heat. Spoon batter over the top, then spread gently so batter is evenly distributed. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until cake is golden brown and bubbly. Allow cake to sit in skillet for five minutes, then invert onto a serving plate. Don’t worry if some of the topping isn’t perfect—it’ll taste perfect!

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

Adapted From: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/09/apple-cak

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Homemade Applesauce

This was my favorite thing that my dad would make for us growing up. It takes the right kitchen tools to make this quickly, so encourage you to make it everyday during the fall.

6 - 8 In Season Apples - pick them yourself for better energy :)

Get an Apple Peeler (WITH CLAMP not suction cup)

Peel and core the apples.

Boil on the stove with about 1/4 c water for 10 minutes.

Then transfer apples to blender. Add cinnamon, and a little sweeter if you wish. Blend to the consistency you like. I like mine really smooth.

This is an amazing blender - you will use it in more ways than you ever imagined (you better for the price) :

German Apple Pancake Recipe

A fabulous Sunday Morning breakfast recipe for the fall! It has the consistency of bread pudding or french toast, not cake. I picked the apples off of a tree that Feather and I found this week on a trail ride off trail. The tree must be from 1850's gold mining time. It is old, and in the middle of no where. Probably the area was a homestead for a gold miner. Yummy Apples that probably haven't been enjoyed for generations!

This is one of my favorite's and so easy to make - you can make the batter the night before.

Paired with : Chai Tea and Homemade AppleSauce

German Apple Pancake or Dutch Baby

Batter

8 eggs
1 cup unbleached flour (half whole wheat and half white flour)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon of salt
2 cups of whole milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1 teaspoon nutmeg

Apple Mixture
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cup sucranat, divided two containers
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
4 medium granny smith apples, peeled and sliced.

1.To make the batter, blend the eggs, flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Slowly add in the milk while constantly stirring. Then add in vanilla and butter. Set batter aside for twenty five to thirty minutes or refrigerate if preparing for the next morning.

2. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
3. To make the apple mixture, combine sugar (1 of 2 reserved containers) with cinnamon and nutmeg. Now melt butter in two cast iron or oven proof skillets. Make sure to work the butter along the sides of the pan. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar mixture into both pans. Now place the apple slices into the bottom of pans trying to avoid stacking. Try to get all the apples to cover the bottom surface or avoid stacking. Now sprinkle remaining sugar over apples. Once the mixture become hot and starts to bubble, pour batter into both pans.
4. Place both pans into oven and bake for 15 minutes. Then reduce temperature to 375F and bake for another 10 minutes.
5. Once removed from oven, allow pancakes in skillet to cool briefly then dust with confectioners sugar and squirt a little lemon over the pancake. (The Dutch Baby Effect).
6. Serve while still warm.

Recipe from: http://www.squidoo.com/apple_pancakerecipe