Apple Brown Betty From The Blue Willow Inn Ingredients ¼ cup plus ¾ cup graham cracker crumbs 6 peeled, cored, and sliced tart baking apples ½ cup water ½ cup molasses ¼ cup brown sugar ½ cup melted butter ½ teaspoon cinnamon Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sprinkle ¼ cup of the graham cracker crumbs onto the bottom of a baking dish. Place half the sliced apples on top of the crumbs; repeat with the remaining ¾ cup crumbs, then the remaining half of the apples. In a bowl mix the water, molasses, sugar and butter. Add the cinnamon. Pour this mixture evenly over the top of the apples and graham cracker crumbs. Cover and bake for 40 minutes. Uncover and bake for 15 minutes more. Makes 8 servings. Note: This should be served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream melting fast on top.
Leaf Season • 2013
Apple Fruit Leather Ingredients 3 large Gala or Granny Smith apples, peeled and chopped ¾ cup sugar 1 to 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice Directions Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F. Combine the fruit and sugar in a blender. Add the lemon juice and puree until smooth. Transfer the pureed fruit to a medium saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium low and cook, stirring occasionally at first and then more often toward the end, until most of the liquid evaporates and the mixture is very thick, 35 to 45 minutes. Be careful: The mixture may splatter. Line a 12-by-17-inch rimmed baking sheet with a silicone mat or nonstick foil. Use an offset spatula to spread the fruit on the mat or foil into a thin layer. Bake until barely tacky, 3 hours to 3 hours, 30 minutes. Transfer the baking sheet to a rack and let the fruit leather cool completely. Peel off of the mat or foil. If the leather is still moist on the underside, return it to the oven, moist-side up, until dry, about 20 more minutes. Lay the leather smoothside down on a sheet of wax paper and use kitchen shears to cut it into strips on the paper. Roll up the strips and store in
zip-top bags for up to 1 week.
Apple Upside-Down Cake Ingredients ½ cup butter ½ cup light brown sugar 2 medium sized apples, peeled, cored and cut into ½-inch slices 2 eggs ⅔ cup sugar 1/3 cup apple juice 1 tsp. lemon extract 1 cup cake flour ½ tsp. baking powder Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place butter in 9-inch, round cake pan. Heat in oven until melted. Sprinkle in brown sugar. Stir, until well moistened. Arrange apples slices in pattern on top of sugar-butter mixture. Press apples firmly into mixture. Heat pan in oven until sugar starts to bubble. Set aside. Beat eggs and sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in apple juice and lemon extract. Sift flour and baking powder together. Add to mixture, stirring until smooth. Pour batter over apples. Bake 35-40 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven. Invert on serving platter. Let pan stay over cake 5 minutes before removing.
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