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Apple Crisp:

This is my Mother's recipe and a fall favorite of mine. It's apple season and time to make the most of it!I use Golden Delicious apples, but you can use any apple you enjoy. This apple bakes faster, so you may need to adjust baking time if you use a thicker apple like a honey crisp.

Ingredients:

6 Golden Delicious apples

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

Topping:

1/2 cup flour

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/3 cup oatmeal

1/2 stick butter

Heat oven to 350

Grease an 8"x8" glass pan

Cut up apples into 1/2 inch chunks

Fill glass pan with apple chunks and set aside

For the topping, cut butter into flour, sugar, oatmeal, cinnamon mix and crumble over apples. 

Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden.

Serve while hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.

Monkey Bread:

This treat perfect for fall. It's warm, gooey and delicious. It is very simple also. 

Ingredients:

 2 pkg Pillsbury biscuits

1 stick (1/2 cup) butter

1 tsp vanilla

2 tsp cinnamon 

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease your tube pan. I place a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil under the pan in case of drips.

2. Mix cinnamon and white sugar in a bowl. You can also mix in a large ziplock bag but I found that it was easier for me to either dip the pieces into the sugar or sprinkle the sugar over the layers.

3. Cut your biscuits into 4's. 

4. Dip each piece into the sugar in the bowl. 

5. Arrange them in the tube pan, I interwove mine so that my finished bread would stay together when out of the pan. 

6. In a saucepan over medium/low, heat up your butter, brown sugar and vanilla until melted and smooth being careful not to burn it. 

7. Pour it gently over your bread in the pan.

8. Bake for 35 minutes, checking occasionally to make sure it doesn't burn. 

9. When you take it out, the sugar mixture will be VERY HOT so try not to touch it. I know it's hard not to pull a piece off and eat it right away :)

Pound Cake with Lemon Frosting and Strawberry Garnish

Ingredients for pound cake

3 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup butter

3 cups white sugar

6 eggs

1 teaspoon lemon extract

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup buttermilk

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F . Grease one 9 or 10 inch tube pan. Mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. 

In a large bowl, beat butter with sugar. Mix in the eggs, one at time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the lemon and the vanilla extracts. Gently mix in flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Pour batter into the prepared pan. 

Bake in preheated oven for 90 minutes. Do not open oven door until after one hour. When cake begins to pull away from the side of the pan it is done. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

 Frosting:

I used a lemon and some powdered sugar and butter. I don't measure them, just eye the texture and flavor. I sliced up some fresh fruit and drizzled the frosting over top.