Fall HarvestIt's finally feeling like Fall. I've been waiting all summer for this. Somehow apple desserts feel more appropriate in Fall than in the Summer, but I always want them in Summer. I guess it's the usual wanting what you can't have (or didn't used to be able to have before mass refrigerated warehouse storage).
In celebration of first inklings that the calendar isn't totally off, I decided it was safe to make an apple dessert this week. Apple pie takes too long for the time I have available these days, and applesauce cake requires applesauce, which I also didn't have, nor really the time to go out to buy some. I happened to have a very large bowl full of beautiful Fuji Apples that aren't getting eaten as fast as they used to since my older son is away in Indiana for school.
As usual, I doubled the recipe to accommodate our group of approximately 16 people. So I grabbed two apples, hoping they would be enough, but thinking I might need a 3rd for my double Apple Spice Cake. After washing, drying, quartering, coring and dicing the first apple, I found that not only is my apple bowl large, so are my apples! A single apple was large enough to create a double recipe of Apple Spice Cake. This recipe was SO easy. One bowl, no mixer, no eggs, no butter. Flour, buttermilk, oil, apples, spices, nuts, stir. That was just about it. Bake, cool, turn out of the pan, sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving. Done!
Of course now I'll be craving Strawberry Shortcake . . .
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