I know that I haven't been blogging much but with three kids under the age of 9 all in activities and a job, things get a little hectic.
This weekend on Sunday, we decided to celebrate my birthday since I work on Tuesday. I have never been to an apple orchard and so we went and checked one out. We had so much fun picking apples that we went a little overboard and picked about 27 pounds of them. I have spent all day today and last night baking with apples.
Last night I made some apple bread and it was delicious! I wanted to share the recipe with all of my readers because it was just that good.
1 Cup Sugar
1/2 Cup Shortening
2 Eggs
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
2 Cups of Flour
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon of Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
2 Cups of Apples, Chopped and Pared (I used my Pampered Chef Chopper)
1/2 Cup of Chopped Walnuts
1 Tablespoon Sugar
1/4 Teaspoon Cinnamon
Directions:
-Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour loaf pan
-Cream together the 1 cup of sugar, shortening, eggs and vanilla.
-Stir in flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt until smooth
-Stir in apples and nuts; spread in pan
-Mix the 1 tablespoon sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle evenly over batter
-Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 50-60 minutes.
-Immediately remove from pan; cool bread completely before slicing
