More Apple Crumble

Our little apple tree in the backyard has yielded some fruit this year, but not as much as last year.   I think because we had such a hot spring and summer. I still got a lot of fruit from it, so I whipped this up again.

The house smells amazing while it's baking - all apple and cinnamon goodness!

And it was as yummy as ever.

I saw a few pears on our pear tree - maybe I will be able to try out a pear crumble!

Christmas Treats

Oh my - Christmas baking has begun! Not by me, but by others who kindly bring them to events that I attend so I can gobble em up!

The best apple pie/crumble ever!

I have already blogged about the little apple tree in my backyard, from which I got these yummy looking apples.

Well after scouring Pinterest, I found this pin, which has the easiest recipe to the yummiest pie ever! She calls it Swedish Apple Pie, but my mom calls it crumble, because it has no bottom crust. In any case, the hardest part was chopping up the apples. But then you sprinkle them with sugar and I added a bit of cinnamon here too, so it already smelled divine.

Then you mix up the dough and pile it on top. Mine looked a lot chunkier than the picture in the original pin, but I used vegetable oil instead of butter, so maybe that's why? I'm not much of a baker so I just threw it all together and crossed my fingers.

Here it is, just out of the oven. And let me tell you, it was delicious. So good that I called my mom and she basically rushed over to try some and gave her approval too. Then two of my sisters came over to sample it too. I'll try making it again in a square dish, to see if I can recreated the magic. Yay, baking success!

Healthy cooking

I tried a bit of healthy cooking on the weekend. I found this pin on Pinterest for zucchini bread:

The good thing about it is you just put everything in the blender and whirrrrr it up! It called for coconut flour, which I think I'm not used to. The taste is very nutty and the batter was quite wet. Maybe I blended for too long? It's still tasty, but I have to toast the slices in the oven before I slather them up with butter and gobble them down.

I also made more date balls, this time with dates, almonds, cocoa powder, and unsweetened coconut flakes. Really simple and delicious. And healthy :)

A Bit o'Baking

A food post, because I love food! I made some blueberry muffins that were super moist and yummy, because the recipe calls for yogurt and less oil. I used organic blueberries and they were SO sweet and delish!

I also made some date balls. Very simple, just dates, almonds a bit of water, and chocolate chips, all ground up in the food processor. The trick is to chill the "dough" for a half hour or so in the fridge before you roll them into balls. I flattened a bunch to look like cookies and sprinkled cinnamon sugar on them. They're still fairly healthy - I hope.

Pumpkin Spice Cake Loaf

Another recipe I found on Pinterest - Pumpkin Spice Cake loaf! All you need is a box of spice cake mix and a can of pureed pumpkin. I added some vanilla frosting cuz, why not?! Delish. Thank you Pinterest.

Pumpkin Spice Muffins

It's fall, it's foggy, it's time for adding pumpkin into my diet! I found a few pins on Pinterest that had links to cupcakes made with two ingredients: packaged spice cake and a can of pumpkin puree. Sounds easy! So I gave it a try:

It WAS easy! Mix it all up, and pop them in the oven. The batter was very thick and I was a tad bit skeptical, but about a half hour later the house smelled great and the cupcakes turned out great. I sprinkled half with pumpkin seeds and the other half with cinnamon sugar. Notice one is gone in the phone. Hehe, I had to test it out. Will definitely make these again - maybe with some cream cheese frosting next time!