After one too many trips to the apple orchard this fall, I had a surplus of apples sitting around. (Really though, how many times can you eat apples, make apple pie, apple spice bread pudding, apple crisp, apple anything before you just get sick of it?) So...this weekend I decided to try my hand at homemade applesauce and wipe out the whole surplus in one fell swoop. If you haven't tried making your own applesauce before, you really need to. It is so easy and sooo good. I ended up tweaking a recipe from Smitten Kitchen, and it was to die for. All you need is apples, cinnamon, a lemon, and water. SK's recipe calls for 4 pounds of apples, 1 cinnamon stick, 4 strips of lemon peel, and a cup of water. I used the same amount of apples and water, but substituted 3/4 teaspoons of cinnamon, and 2 strips of lemon peel for the suggested amounts. I'm guessing that a few tablespoons of brown sugar would be yummy too...but I left it out in the name of healthiness. And then made applesauce spice cake. Haha. The applesauce spice cake recipe came from Smitten Kitchen as well and is literally my favorite thing I've baked this fall. Seriously, it was that good and I'm not even a cake person.
On another note, my mom and I have started skyping each other while we're baking and it is so much fun! It's almost as good as baking in the same kitchen, and let me tell you, there are few things in this world that I love as much as just spending an afternoon in the kitchen with my mom. Here are a few photos from the foray into applesauce caking that we had this afternoon:
We forgot to take any 'during' pictures. Oops. Here's the finished product:
SO yummy. cream cheese frosting with fall spices, can anyone resist this stuff?
The first bite. I always feel slightly guilty cutting into something right after I finish it. Don't let that face fool you though, this stuff was GOOD.
And really, if you're going to try baking anything this fall, try this! You won't regret it one bit!
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