Apple Fritter Bites

I found this recipe on Pinterest about a year ago. I made it for our Churches annual Christmas Devotional that we watch each year. It is always a great way to start off our Christmas Season. 

Last year I when I made them we didn't have quite enough so (as we are a family of 6) so I doubled the batch this time. We had plenty this time. 

You start off by combining all the dry ingredients.

1 heaping cup of ap flour

1/3  cup sugar

1 tsp. baking powder

dash salt

1-2 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

Add the wet ingredients 

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1Tablespoon butter, melted

1 egg

1/3 milk, more if needed. (we added just a little bit more)

 And now for the apples. You want a nice small pieces. This part was hard me as I am allergic to apples in the raw form. They just make my skin itch and itch. (I need to invest in some food safe gloves). Anyways you need at least 1 1/2 cups of diced apples.

Mix all the ingredients together and that is when you want to add the extra milk if you think it is too thick. Just a little at a time though.

Heat up some oil in a pan and cook your fritters till they are nice and golden brown. Depending on how big you make them will depend on how long they will take to cook. Mine took anywhere from a minute to two minutes. 

Then as soon as they get out of the oil coat them in a powederd sugar glaze. That way the glaze dries on the fritter. We also rolled some in a cinnamon sugar mixture.

Here is the original recipe -Apple Fritter Recipe. Serve with some yummy Hot Chocolate and you have a great breakfast or snack.

Happy Baking!

Helpful Tip

I thought I would share one of my little helps that I find useful in the kitchen. 

When a recipe calls for oreo crumbs and you can't find oreo crumbs in a box (they used to have them but I can't seem to find them anymore), or you don't want to sit there and scrape the inside out of the cookie. Get a Oreo Pie Crust. Break it up and there you go, you got your crumbs.

Blueberry Pancakes with Peach Syrup

It's still summer time and I found some blueberry bushes in our back yard so we have plenty of blueberries. They are sweet and juicy. So I made blueberry pancakes. To go with them I made a peach syrup. I can only eat cooked peaches as I have an oral allergy to certain fruits, but that is another story. 

The pancakes are my dad's recipe which I think was also my grandpa's recipe I just added the blueberries to them.

Pancakes

2 cups flour

1 Tablespoon Baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 Tablespoons sugar

2 Tablespoon cooking oil

2 cups milk or buttermilk

2 tablespoons vinegar or lemon Juice

6 eggs, separated

blueberries

Mix together dry ingredients. Add the egg yolks right to dry mixture. Beat the egg whites until stiff, set aside. Add the oil, milk, and lemon juice. Stir thoroughly. Fold in egg whites. Place about 1/4 cup of pancake batter on a hot griddle. Add the blueberries. Cook till ready to flip and finish cooking on the other side.

Enjoy.

Peach Syrup

7 peaches, peeled, pit removed and chopped

1/2 cup water

2 tablespoons cornstarch

1/2 cup sugar

Place the peaches in a sauce pan. Add the water, cornstarch, and sugar. Stir till combined. Cook on medium heat till bubbly about 5-8 mintues. Use a potato masher and mash the peaches. Cook a little longer.

Either eat warm or let cool and enjoy.

Happy Baking!

Fresh Strawberry Pie

I love strawberry pie, but Fresh Strawberry pie is even better. 

This is the filling for the pie. It is chopped strawberries, sugar, corn starch, stawberry jello and a little red food coloring.

 The crust was a premade crust. After I made the filling I tossed the strawberries in with the filling and put it in the crust.

 Let it chill for a couple of hours and added the whipped cream around the edges.

 And there you have it a piece of Fresh Strawberry pie. It was very yummy and refreshing.

Recipe

1 refrigerated pie crust (baked) or you could make your own.

Filling

6 cups of strawberries

1 cup sugar

3 tablespoons cornstarch

1/2 cup water 

1 box strawberry jell-o  (3 oz box)

red food coloring if you want it

In a small bowl crush enough berries to make 1 cup. Place the berries in a sauce pan and add the sugar, cornstarch, water, and jell-o. Cook until mixture is bubbly and thickens, stirring constantly. Add food coloring if you want. Let cool until completely cool.

Either cut or leave the remaing strawberries whole and mix with the cooled filling. Place in the precooked crust and place in the refrigerated till set. Add whipped cream and enjoy.

Happy Baking!

Strawberry Hearts

It is Strawberry Season!! I LOVE STRAWBERRIES!! It is one summer fruit that I can eat. There are so many yummy things you can make with strawberries. Chocolate and Strawberries go so well together. I saw somewhere chocolate hearts. 

First step cut strawberries open and take out the middle part. Take a toothpick and join the two halves together. Fill the strawberries with marshmallow fluff.

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Melt your chocolate and put all over the bottoms of the strawberries making sure the marshmallow fluff is covered up.

Once dry turn the berries over and coat the top of the strawberries in chocolate. Then drizzle with white chocolate, or red, or more chocolate, whatever you want.  Pretty quick and easy and so YUMMY.

Baked Oatmeal

Ok so I don't have a picture of this one. I made it the night before for breakfast. By the time I got home from work the next day it was gone. It was REALLY good. I found the recipe on Pinterest. So far most of the recipes I have made from there have been really good. You can find the recipe here. 

I did make some changes though. I left out the walnuts and used regular oats instead of gluten free. I added strawberries, blueberries and bananas. But you can add any fruit you would like. It is a keeper in my recipe book.

Chocolate Drizzled Caramel Popcorn

I love making Caramel Popcorn. This recipe is really good. It's a nice crispy caramel on the popcorn.

First off you need these items.

A popcorn popper. You can use microwave but use the natural unsalted type.

Popcorn.

Candy Thermometer 

Pot

Pan (9x13)

Tin Foil

Brown Sugar

Corn Syrup

Butter

Baking Soda 

Vanilla

First off you need to line your 9x13 pan with foil. It makes clean up a lot easier.

Pop your popcorn (1/3 cup to 1/2 cup unpopped). You will need about 8 cups. Carefully put popcorn in 9x13 pan so you don't get the kernels that didn't pop. Place in a preheated oven (300 degrees) to keep warm  till you get your caramel ready.

To make your caramel put 

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

3 Tablespoons Corn Syrup

1/3 cup butter

Stir your mixture, over a medium, heat till it starts to bubble. Put in the candy thermometer and stop stirring it. Wait till it gets to 255 degrees. Take it off the heat and stir in  1/4 teaspoon vanilla and a 1/4 teaspoon baking soda.

As soon as you stir it in pour the caramel mixture over the popcorn. Stir till coated. Bake in a 300 degree oven for 13 minutes. Take out and stir. Bake for another 5 minutes.

 Lay out a couple of sheets of foil on your counter. When the popcorn comes out of the oven give it another stir and then pour on the foil to cool. Break it into pieces. Take Chocolate and White bark and melt it in the microwave.  You can use a spoon to drizzle it all over or place it in a small sandwich type bag and seal it up, cut off the corner and drizzle it on that way. Let the chocolate set up and then enjoy.

Happy Baking!