Wednesday, November 22, 2023

my latest version of our favorite apple cake

I am revisiting our family favorite fall cake:
apple cake or as we call it at home harvest cake!

By changing the pan (and the amount of the dough)
I change the cake:
this one is like an easy apple tart.


It does look different depending on how the apple slices are arranged on top of the dough:


But it tastes just as good as the original harvest cake,
and the perfect cake to make at the last minute,
it takes longer to heat up the oven to 350 than making the dough!

for this larger pie pan:
3 eggs
150g of sugar
150g of AP flour
1.5 tsp of baking powder
0.5 tsp vanilla
0.5-1 tsp cinnamon
3 tbsp of milk 
150 g of melted butter

mix together, one after the other,
pour into greased pie pan,
and arranged the sliced apples (1.5 apples for this size)



bake for 30-35 min at 350,
enjoy warm or cold.

We also make it in a loaf pan:


harvest cake



Happy thanksgiving!


Thursday, November 16, 2023

pumpkin coasters and pumpkin placemats, never too many pumpkins!


I love sewing pumpkins!
And no, I do not have too many pumpkins!

I made paper pieced quilted coasters:


The pattern is from Joe, June and Mae,
I kept playing with different fabrics to have traditional orange
pumpkins, white and blue pumpkins,
they look quite nice with my new pumpkin quilt:



I also sewed some pumpkin placemats,
using mushroom fabric!
Mixing 2 of my favorite genres!


Another easy sew, the pattern is from Minki Kim.
I even made a pumpkin shaped rye bread, very delicious!


And since I had a couple extra blocks from the big quilt,
I sewed a few more and made a simple table runner,
with some other fabric:


And yes our house is still full of pumpkins....at least for another week!

Happy sewing!



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