by sancha October 30, 2009
I made apple pie. A very simple, very quick apple pie of my own invention (I tweaked a traditional cake recipe and added apples). You need: 3 apples, sugar & cinnamon; 2 eggs; 1 1/4 cups flour and ditto sugar; and, finally, some butter, very thinly sliced. Mix the eggs, sugar and flour. Don’t whisk, just stir them together. Prepare a spring form with butter and breadcrumbs and pour the mix in. It’s thick so you might nedd to help it cover the form a little. Slice the apples and sprinkle sugar and cinnamon to taste over. Put the thin slices of butter on top. For my oven it would be about 400 degrees F (=about 200 decrees C) and about 40 minutes. Just make sure it’s fairly baked and doesn’t burn and you should be fine.

I made apple pie. A very simple, very quick apple pie of my own invention (I tweaked a traditional cake recipe and added apples).

You need: 3 apples, sugar & cinnamon; 2 eggs; 1 1/4 cups flour and ditto sugar; and, finally, some butter, very thinly sliced.

Mix the eggs, sugar and flour. Don’t whisk, just stir them together. Prepare a spring form with butter and breadcrumbs and pour the mix in. It’s thick so you might nedd to help it cover the form a little. Slice the apples and sprinkle sugar and cinnamon to taste over. Put the thin slices of butter on top. For my oven it would be about 400 degrees F (=about 200 decrees C) and about 40 minutes. Just make sure it’s fairly baked and doesn’t burn and you should be fine.

by phoofy October 18, 2009
Apple Pumpkin Muffins (with streusel topping). I changed the original recipe by replacing the oil with applesauce, using white whole wheat flour instead of white all-purpose, and cutting the sugar by 1/2 cup.

Apple Pumpkin Muffins (with streusel topping). I changed the original recipe by replacing the oil with applesauce, using white whole wheat flour instead of white all-purpose, and cutting the sugar by 1/2 cup.

by wrathofbom October 11, 2009
After searching for an easy, but excellent pumpkin muffin recipe, I happened upon this one from this really cool blog. It was simple, but the outcome exceeded my expectations! The muffins came out moist with just the perfect amount of sweetness and spice. Of course, I wanted to taste these autumn treats with cream cheese frosting. To experiment, I made just enough for just one muffin. Since I didn’t have any confectioners (powdered/icing) sugar on hand, I looked up a substitute (minus the cornstarch), ground some sugar with a mortar and pestle, and followed this recipe.

After searching for an easy, but excellent pumpkin muffin recipe, I happened upon this one from this really cool blog. It was simple, but the outcome exceeded my expectations! The muffins came out moist with just the perfect amount of sweetness and spice. Of course, I wanted to taste these autumn treats with cream cheese frosting. To experiment, I made just enough for just one muffin. Since I didn’t have any confectioners (powdered/icing) sugar on hand, I looked up a substitute (minus the cornstarch), ground some sugar with a mortar and pestle, and followed this recipe.

by phoofy October 10, 2009
Super quick & easy coconut macaroons. I changed the original recipe by using organic unsweetened coconut threads, organic turbinado sugar, and whole wheat flour. I doubled the amount of flour, and I also added almond extract equal to the amount of vanilla extract. Yum! (Sorry, Anne!)

Super quick & easy coconut macaroons. I changed the original recipe by using organic unsweetened coconut threads, organic turbinado sugar, and whole wheat flour. I doubled the amount of flour, and I also added almond extract equal to the amount of vanilla extract. Yum! (Sorry, Anne!)

Snickerdoodles (cinnamon-sugar cookies)

by wrathofbom September 27, 2009

Snickerdoodles straight from the oven

These snickerdoodle cookies are cooling on one of my makeshift cooling racks. I really like this recipe because it didn’t call for shortening or anything else I didn’t have on hand. Very simple, very easy, and very tasty! They’re a wonderful autumn treat!

by phoofy September 20, 2009
Oatmeal-Cranberry Cookies with White & Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips from this recipe on allrecipes.com. The dough came out a bit crumbly, so did the resulting cookies. These didn’t flat and even out while cooking, so I ended up pressing them down with the back of a spoon after dropping them on the baking sheet. (The first batch came out more as buttons than cookies; which isn’t necessarily a bad thing since they’re practically bite-sized.)

Oatmeal-Cranberry Cookies with White & Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips from this recipe on allrecipes.com. The dough came out a bit crumbly, so did the resulting cookies. These didn’t flat and even out while cooking, so I ended up pressing them down with the back of a spoon after dropping them on the baking sheet. (The first batch came out more as buttons than cookies; which isn’t necessarily a bad thing since they’re practically bite-sized.)

Choco-mint cookies

by wrathofbom September 20, 2009

Stack of choco-mint cookies

Mint-chocolate chip cookies using the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe. Besides using both mint-dark chocolate chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips, I’ve substituted the instant espresso coffee powder with mint hot chocolate mix for an extra choco-minty cookie!

by phoofy September 15, 2009
I have got to try and make these!

I have got to try and make these!