Toffee Apple Cake!

Oh my goodness... I have been searching the internet for the perfect toffee apple cake and couldn't find what I wanted. So this is a combination of about 4 different recipes... and it's delicious!! I have never eaten a piece of cake so fast. Perfect for Autumn and Halloween, this cake will really impress. It's a combination between sticky toffee pudding and a toffee apple. Gooey in the middle, caramelized on the outside, with a sticky toffee drizzle. I really hope you enjoy it too, it's worth the effort.

Blackberry & Apple Cakes

These yummy little squishy cakes are a great way of using up summer hedgerow fruits and also a really easy way to get fruit into kids. Made with Bramley apples and blackberries, orange zest, a delightful vanilla batter, and toasted hazelnut crumble on top. Best eaten still warm from the oven, but trust me, if you're anything like me they wont last long enough to cool down anyway.

Mmmmm Pie

I'm bored of putting pastry leaf decorations on pies. So I thought really hard about what else I could put on a pie... then I thought about eating pie... and then I thought "mmmmm pie".

I do love Apple and Blackberry pie, but sometimes I think fruit pies are a little bland. Try adding a few knobs of stem ginger to your fruit pies. Just chop it up finely and chuck it in for a bit of added spice and flavour. Delicious.

Apple Crumble Cake

Mmmm, my favourite pudding in cake form. I think I prefer this to an apple crumble, as there's more cake and a lot less apple peeling to do! This cake takes less than 15minutes to prepare, then 40minutes to bake - perfect timing for getting a meal ready in the meantime and serving it warm for pudding with vanilla icecream. Simple and yummy, this is one that I bake again and again.

Caramel Apple Pie

What to do with those left over Bramley apples...crumble or pie? Husband picks pie, so here it is. This is slightly different to a traditional apple pie recipe in that the apples are partially cooked in a buttery caramel before baking in the oven. With big ole' Bramley apples being so tart, I feel that they need something a little extra to bring out their potential and make them as delicious as their sweet apple cousins.

Tarte Tatin, with Salted Caramel!

This tarte has only five ingredients and oh... my... word despite the slightly "rustic" appearance, it is the best pudding I have ever had (yet another recipe posted to me by my mother). I used pre made puff pastry to save time so the hardest part about this tart is the caramel. My third attempt turned out allright but I could have gone browner. It's a fine line between fudge and burnt treacle, time to invest in a sugar thermometer...

Cinnamony Apple Crumbley Yummyness

This apple crumble slice lasted only a couple of hours before being wiped off the planet by a hoard of hungry cake eating monsters... oh wait, come to think of it, I think I ate most of these myself.

This was the first food item of 2012 that made me feel Christmassy, and far too early but who cares when it tastes that yummy. A layer of cinnamon, nutmeg & ginger coated apples and plump dried fruits sandwiched between layers of oaty brown-sugary crumbly crumble. Thinking about bagging these babies up and giving them as Christmas presents.