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Apple Crisp

Always a welcome dessert, it seems that everyone loves Apple Crisp!

Apple Crisp is so much simpler to make than pie…& I bet it is healthier too. Though I am no nutritionalist..it makes sense to me…though don’t get me wrong…I love pie!! But for a quick fruit dessert...Apple Crisp is a really delicious choice.

You can serve Apple Crisp alone or with ice cream…we had it with coconut whipped topping.which was delicious!

The recipe for this is by Norene Gilletz… Her CRUNCHY APPLE CRISP recipe in her cookbook THE PLEASURES OF YOUR FOOD PROCESSOR.

I follow the recipe almost exactly except I always use a non-dairy/parve margarine for the topping. Sometimes if I don’t have any non-dairy margarine I use some oil .. i usually try to half the amount of oil to the amount of butter called for….but if it seems dry I add more oil. ex. 1/2 cup of butter start with 1/4 cup of oil… And I use more apples. I put the apples in a shallow baking dish & use the same amount of topping as the recipe calls for when using less apples

One of things about Apple Crisp os that if you do not want to make a large amount, use the amount of apples you want & just adjust the topping recipe, making less to fit the pan you are using. Remember though that the apples cook down so the dish will be less full once this cooks. Sometimes I take 4 apples, slice them up, put them in an appropriate sized baking dish, half the recipe for the topping & bake! This way I have a dessert that we can eat in a day or two & not have so much left over..although we love Apple Crisp so if I make a big dish we eat it al! It is good for breakfast with some yogurt on it!

Here is the recipe

3 lbs apples…I used granny smith this time but use any apple you like. The granny smith were very tart

1 cup raisins…. ***optional

Topping

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup non-dairy margarine *** I use Becel vegan margarine

1/2 cup oats *** I use quick oats

1 tsp cinnamon

Mehod  Preheat oven to 375f

Grease a 9 x 13 pan for the 3 lbs of apples

  1. Prepare the apples, I peel & slice them thinly
  2. Put the apples into the prepared baking dish
  3. In a bowl, mix the topping ingredients together until crumbly & completely combined *** I use my hands to do this, but you can use a fork, or the food processor but just pulse it in the processor so that the oats do not get too fine…
  4. Put the topping evenly over the apples
  5. Bake in the preheated oven for 35 – 40 minutes until the apples are cooked & the topping is brown

Enjoy!

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Olive Oil Lemon Cake

Simple, lemony & delicious.This cake is different from other cakes…it is very thin… not a big double layer or even a regular single layer cake. The finished cake is about 1 inch high. I thought maybe I had done something wrong with it, but it is tender & moist, so I assume this is how this cake is meant to be!

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Chocolate & Cinnamon Kokosh Cake

When I go to Toronto, there is a dessert called Kokosh Cake that I love. I usually buy it at a place called Hermes on Bathurst Street, the address is 2885 Bathurst Street, North York. Layers of dough surrounded by a delicious chocolate filling…and sometimes I find it with a cinnamon filling which is hard to find…Since I live in Edmonton & I am pretty sure that no one make Kokosh Cake here, I have to make it myself. The recipe I decided to make is from Truffles & Trends…I made 4 small ones from one recipe…2 with 1/2 of the recipe for the chocolate filling on that page & the other one with a cinnamon filing. The recipe calls for butter, but I like to have most of my desserts non-dairy so I use Becel Vegan margarine..you can use any vegan margaine you like.. Earth Balance… whatever, or use the butter….

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Sponge Cake

This recipe was given to me by a great lady. Her name was Dasha & I love to make this cake and remember her every time I do. I am always nervous that the cake won’t rise..& when it does I know that she would be proud…:))

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Double Iced Brownies

My friend Rhonda always makes brownies with a white icing in-between the brownie & a chocolate frosting & my daughter Jacki really likes them I am not sure if this is the recipe she uses. This brownie recipe is quick & easy to make. Continue reading “Double Iced Brownies” →

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Lemon Bundt Cake

We love lemon anything & this Lemon Bundt Cake has just been added to the list of ‘all things lemon are good & we should eat them!”

The recipe is the recipe of the year 2017 on the FLOURISH website,  which is the blog page for King Arthur Flour. I have had good luck with the recipes I have tries from King Arthur Flour. The Blueberry Hand Pies are for King Arthur Flour… you should check out the recipe for these hand pies…

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Prune Plum Cake

Prune Plum Cake ,,,Fall is the time for Prune Plums. These are my favourite plums actually so even though seeing them means the end of summer, I am always happy when they are on the store shelves.

Smitten Kitchen posted this recipe, Purple Plum Torte,  The recipe that Smitten Kitchen posted was made with butter, but I wanted it to be parve, non-dairy, so I substituted the butter with oil. I loved the texture of the cake using the oil, so I am going to make it this way always!

The cake has plums on top of the batter & they sink into the cake as it bakes. This cake is made in a spring form pan but if you do not have one use an equivalent size baking pan & make sure you grease it well so that the cake will come out easily when cut.

Here is the recipe thanks to Smitten Kitchen for posting it…I changed 1 thing only so I have the recipe here with the changes I made

Ingredients

For the cake

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

pinch of salt

1 cup sugar

6 tbsp oil

2 large eggs

For the topping

12 purple plums

2 tsp lemon juice

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tbsp sugar

Method

Preheat oven to 350f

Grease a 9 inch springform pan within-stick spray

You can easily mix this cake by hand, using oil instead of butter makes this easy!

  1. Whisk the flour, baking powder & salt together in a bowl
  2. In a different bowl, whisk sugar & oil together
  3. Add the eggs to the sugar/oil mixture & mix well until smooth & well combined
  4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones & using a spoon, mix well
  5. Cut the plums in half & remove the pit
  6. Put the cut plums cut side down on top of the batter…cover the top
  7. Sprinkle the lemon juice over the plums
  8. Mix the siccamon & the sugar together & sprinkle over the plums
  9. Bake the cake in the preheated oven for for approximatley 45 minutes..
  10. Cool the cake in the springform pan on a rack, if you have made this in a cake pan, you can let it cool for about 15 minutes the remove & finish cooling on the cooling rack.
  11. Remove the ring of the sjpringform pan to serve…
  12. When the cake was cool I dusted the top of the cake with some icing sugar…

Enjoy!

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Brownies

These brownies are rich, dark & delicious. Made with Hershey’s cocoa, the recipe is from the Hershey Chocolate Company. I have s 2-sided piece of paper with the BEST recipes on it! I must have gotten this sheet paper over 30 years ago!! Continue reading “Brownies” →

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