Alright holiday lovers and fall time nesters, since high baking season is in full swing I thought I would take the time before we launch into 2012 holiday cookies to do a round up of some of my favorite cookies from last year.
I know many of you were not here last year, so I’m sharing what you missed and hopefully a few of these will make it into your holiday cookie rotation.
Despite what you’ve been told or taught summer is over and fall is here. With that I’m sharing my first official fall dessert Apple Butter Cake. The first of September means no more bikini diet, so forget meals made of leafy green bits, I’m loading up my plate with things that will enhance my winter padding – things like two or six servings of cake and lots of cookies.
Are you with me? Let me convince you with this Apple Butter Cake. The cake has all the fall seasoning you would expect: cinnamon, nutmeg, a little bit of cloves. Take those spices and mix it in a with a tender cake crumb enhanced with apple butter, sprinkled with shredded apples and then ripple all that with an apple butter cheesecake layer.
I’m scaling up this classic teacake for a caramel financier by popping it with one of my favorite candies and turning it into a Rolo-stuffed financier. Outside of that, everything else falls in line with this classic sponge-like cake.
I meant to post this yesterday, but it’s been a tough week full of battles.
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