Apple Week Recipe #4 Apple Orchard Snack Cake

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Apple Week Recipe #4 Apple Orchard Snack Cake

Submitted by southernplate on Wednesday, September 3, 200815 Comments

We have a tradition each year which has held since I was old enough to remember. My entire family piles in the car and we drive to Toney, Alabama to pay a visit to Scott’s Orchard. As a child, I remember riding home in the back of the truck, munching on all varieties of fresh apples and trying to guess what Mama would bake first with our bounty.

We would buy several baskets of different varieties and once we got home, my mother would get to cooking. Each day, it seemed, there was a new apple dish waiting on us when we came in from school. We relished each and every one.

The year my son was born, we had to take him to Scott’s Orchard, even though he was only two months old at the time! However, though family traditions hold strong, they do get modified from time to time. Both of my children have made the fall trip to the orchard every year of their lives, although Isom’s in our hometown of Athens has won out on more than one occasion due to pure convenience. I highly reccomend either of these orchards, or any apple orchard close to you this time of year. Locally grown apples truly are the absolute best when it comes to preparing your family’s favorite dishes. If you’re lucky, your orchard will have fresh apple cider slushes. With Isom’s being so conveniently located on Highway 72, we have been known to stop by several times a week when apple cider was coming in for this very reason!

I often find with recipes, as with memories, it is the simple things which satisfy us the most. This recipe is the perfect example of that. A classic snack cake that is not too sweet, the simple ingredients make it a breeze to throw together. Add in the full flavor of locally grown apples (preferably from a family orchard trip!) and you can’t go wrong. It is perfect for breakfast, with a cup of coffee while visiting friends, or any other time of day. I also think of it as the ideal after school snack

Ingredients are simple: Graham cracker crumbs, margarine, eggs, sugar, and apples.

The recipe also calls for walnuts, which I highly recommend. However, I am not including them in mine as the little people in my house have voiced their objection to having “those nut things” in their snack cake!

All of today’s photos are courtesy of my trusty iPhone due to the incident involving my digital camera and the Coca Cola Cake. Don’t worry though, I am being a very good girl and just know that if I brush my teeth and mind my manners, the camera fairy will come!

Melt margarine and pour into medium sized mixing bowl.

Add eggs.

Add sugar

Add graham cracker crumbs.

Peel and chop apples.

Add those.

Stir to combine.

Spray 8×8 pan with cooking spray.

Spr
ead batter into prepared pan. Bake at 350 for forty to forty five minutes.

Remove from oven.

Sprinkle top liberally with confectioner’s sugar

So that it looks like this!

Slice and…..

feed the bears.

they’ll be glad ya did!

Apple orchard Snack Cake

1 C sugar

3 eggs

2 to 3 apples, peeled and diced

1/2 C butter or margarine, melted

2 C graham cracker crumbs

3/4 C chopped walnuts (optional)

Blend sugar, margarine, and eggs in bowl with a spoon. Stir in graham cracker crumbs, apples, and walnuts until blended. Spread batter into greased 8×8 pan. Bake at 35 for forty to forty five minutes or until firm to the touch. Sprinkle liberally with confectioner’s sugar. Cool and then cut into squares.

For more information about Alabama grown products and to find an Alabama orchard near you, visit www.buylocalalabama.com

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15 Comments »

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Stephanie said:

That looks really yummy! Up here in the north, apple-pickin’ season hasn’t quite started yet, but you’ve got me looking forward to it so much!

So sorry about your camera. That really is too bad. But we’ve all learned the valuable lesson to keep the strap on the wrist when taking hazardous pictures!

- September 4, 2008 at 3:14 am

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The DeL Sisters said:

Yummy!

- September 4, 2008 at 3:25 am

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April in CT said:

Dang girl! That iPhone takes pretty darn good pictures!

That is a wonderfully simple recipe. I’ve got some graham cracker crumbs that need to be used and this is just the way to do it.

- September 4, 2008 at 4:32 am

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scraphag said:

ooohhhh…I really want to make some…yummy! Is this recipe in your cookbook?
Casey

- September 4, 2008 at 6:42 am

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Cee said:

This sounds absolutely fabulous… and apple cider… omg…. i gotta get some soon!!!!! love that stuff…

- September 4, 2008 at 9:44 am

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Mommy's Kitchen said:

Christy that cake looks great. I love the addition of the graham cracker crumbs. My kids are the same “no nuts” they hate the texture. By the looks of Bradys face i know its good. Another recipe to try. I have so many to make.

- September 4, 2008 at 1:49 pm

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Laura said:

Hi …I’ve given you a blog award…read here…http://realmomkitchen.blogspot.com/2008/09/raspberry-freezer-jam-and-blog-award.html

- September 4, 2008 at 3:46 pm

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BillGent said:

That picture of your son with the thumbs up sign is awesome! Haha!

That cake looks great. Very yummy!

- September 4, 2008 at 4:31 pm

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Belle said:

I FOUND YOU! Your blog is just fabulous. I’m putting it on my reader so that I’ll be sure to check in everyday.

- September 4, 2008 at 4:47 pm

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Southern Plate said:

Y’all, I swear I am not losing my mind. I responded to a bunch of comments on this thread right before I left to go to the post office while ago and now ……where did my response go?
Alright so maybe I am losing my mind!

Stephanie: our apple season doesn’t start for a few weeks either, but we do have some coming in now and I wanted to get these out there! I am ITCHING for fall after all of this summer heat!!!
You’d have more sense than to drop your camera like I did, I’m sure!!!

Del Sisters: you two have a great blog! Thank you so much for reading Southern Plate!

April: it does do a pretty good job, doesn’t it? I just love graham crackers, in pretty much anything, don’t you?

Scraphag: You know, I’m not entirely sure if it is in there or not! I have already got a list of several family recipes for book #2! I hope to do another one in a year or so that includes all of the family stories behind the recipes and such.

Cee: Apple cider………omg. Nectar of the gods, I tell ya!

Tina!!! Hey girl! I feel like we haven’t talked in weeks instead of days! LOL I’ve been so busy with apple week!!! I wish you lived close, I swear I’d put twenty pounds on you the first month just by sending food over!

~~~Katy calls, I’ll respond more in just a few!~~~

- September 4, 2008 at 5:07 pm

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Southern Plate said:

Laura! WOW THANK YOU!!! That was so nice of you! I will post it today. I also have two older ones I still haven’t posted!! I am such a bad blogger sometimes.
I missed where you had featured the pizza rolls, thank you for that! I’ll be sure to put it in the next newsletter!

BillGent: How did the doc go yesterday? thanks for the kudos, Brady is such a great kid.

Belle!! THANK YOU!!!! I have been back to your blog several times already!!! Your daughter is just lovely. Chemistry in college was a challenge for me as well. Tell her one thing for me if you will :In lab, when you are bending glass tubing with the burners and they tell you not to touch the tubing you have already bent because it is extremely hot - believe them.
~grins~

- September 4, 2008 at 5:16 pm

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Cooking Mama said:

Wow! What a wonderful quick recipe! I have apples that need to be eaten soon, and this is perfect for them. Thank you! I am marking your blog as a fav.

- September 10, 2008 at 12:39 pm

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Stephanie said:

My daughter and I made this snack cake this morning. I haven’t let her have a piece yet, because she isn’t done with lunch, but I’ve already eaten two pieces! It’s delicious! And of course, after Zaylee finishes eating her lunch, she will have a piece of cake and love it as much as I do.

Yeah, absolutely every recipe of yours I’ve tried has turned out wonderful. You are so great!

- October 11, 2008 at 7:24 pm

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Stephanie said:

This is funny - When my husband got home from work this afternoon, he saw the apple cake on the counter. When I told him it was Apple Orchard Snack Cake, he was like, “Ooh, that sounds good.” Then I added, “From Southern Plate.” He gasped, smiled, and said under his breath “Yes!“

See? Your recipes are infamous at our house!

- October 11, 2008 at 9:02 pm

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Anonymous said:

I am so upset that I did not double this recipe. It was gone within 10 minutes of pulling it out of the oven. I thought I would be able to have another piece when the kids went to bed, not going to happen.

- October 28, 2008 at 12:18 am