* 4 cups Pippin apples (peel and cube)
* 2 cups sugar
* 2 cups flour
* 1 ½ t soda
* 2 t cinnamon
* 2 eggs (beaten)
* 2 t vanilla
* 1 cup walnuts
* ¾ cup oil
* 1 t salt
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**KISSIN’ KEEPS ME COOKIN’**
Sprinkle sugar over apples in large bowl. Let stand. Sift flour, soda, cinnamon and salt. Add mixture to apples. Stir in eggs, oil and vanilla (mixed together first). Mix well. Add nuts. Pour mixture into 13 x 9 x 2 pan. Bake 350° for 50 minutes or until toothpick stuck in center comes out clean.
This is a variation on a recipe that used to appear on the Sunmade Currants box. I found a similar recipe and updated it with what I had on hand, ie. oranges and dried, sweetened cranberries. They came out very good.
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened (I used salted and they were fine)
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup sour cream
1 large egg
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup dried cranberries (cut them up small!)
1 tablespoon grated orange zest
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cover two baking sheets with parchment paper. Combine the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl; beat until light and fluffy. Beat in sour cream and egg.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Gradually beat the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until they are well combined. Stir in cranberries, orange zest, and lemon juice.
Drop heaping teaspoonfuls of dough about 1 1/2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets. Bake until cookies are puffed and golden around the edges, about 20 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes on baking sheets before transferring cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
Update: I did a modified version of this with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 1/8 tsp. of cloves and 1/8 tsp. nutmeg. Very favorable addition. Next time I will try adding crushed pecan pieces.
Healthy Rice Krispies Treats (pictured with Fall Spices added)
This one was a chance discovery because we had a bag of marshmallows that stuck together because of the humidity in the air by the beach where I live. We tried roasting them, it was a messy joke, so this idea came to me. The recipe is really tasty.
5 cups rice krispies
1/4 cup (half stick) butter
1 tbsp. coconut oil (heaping?!?)
1/2 cup almond meal
1/2 cup flax seed meal
2/3 cup roasted, salted sunflower seeds
What was already hard to stop eating just became IMPOSSIBLE… You might never go back to the original recipe.
The version pictured has additional ingredients added to the butter as it melts:
Preheat oven. Beat together butter, sugar, eggs, maple and vanilla
until creamy.
Add oats, mix well before adding rest of ingredients. Add flour, salt and soda, mix well. Add chips and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoons onto cookie sheet. Non-stick cookie sheet, don’t grease.
Can also use greased cookie sheet, or parchment paper.
For variety you can make bars, cook longer. Add raisins, or currants, or butterscotch chips, or chocolate chunks, or coconut, or salted peanuts. All of these variations taste good.
