I've been baking again this week! After making all that applesauce over the weekend, I decided to see what I could make out of it, and found this recipe for Applesauce Cake. It is yummy! I substituted chocolate chips for the raisins - that works just fine. Interestingly, there are no eggs in this cake. Googling that, it turns out that applesauce can be a substitute for eggs! I'd never heard that before.
This is like a snack cake - no frosting - but very moist.
It's good with morning coffee!
My flower garden is pretty much done, but the sunflowers decided to put out a last hurrah! I was just about to pull them out the other day when we were doing some yard clean-up, but realized there were buds on them.
Judy sent me a fun surprise package in the mail last week. She made these neat little fabric baskets that start out flat, but snap together in the corners to make a little basket. Pretty fall fabrics, too! Thank you, Judy!
I read the best book this last week - The Music of Bees, by Eileen Garvin. Same author as Crow Talk which I read back in August. She is really good at creating a story with characters you care about and adding science into it. This book is about a beekeeper, so lots of fascinating information about bees.
LeeAnna's question of the week is about hay rides - have we taken one? did we enjoy it? And I'm not sure I have ever been on an actual hay ride. I did ride in a parade in a wagon filled with hay bales for us to sit on. It was a float in a local parade with our Cub Scout pack. I actually found a picture from back then! Being in a parade was kind of fun - different than watching from the sidelines, that's for sure.
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I've saved that cake recipe, and good sub on the chocolate chips for raisins. Raisins are one of the few things I dislike. :D
Those sunflowers! Don't they just brighten your day!
Mmm Yummy cake!!!!
how funny just last night I printed out an apple cake loaf recipe that is egg less as well I was thinking of trying it next week when the house will cool down even more than this week. I didn't want to heat the house up too much right now while I have windows open - It might get warm enough to shut the and put the A/C back on tomorrow for the weekend I think.
I have never taken a hay ride that I recall
I make a sourdough applesauce cake that has no frosting. . .it is better the following day. Growing up on a farm, I've taken many hay rides--since we raised alfalfa, cut it for hay, baled it and then stacked it for feed in the winter. I've taken a few horse drawn wagon hay rides too. Those were fun just because it was a social event in the fall.
I learned that little tidbit about applesauce replacing eggs when I was researching baking in the upper elevations. Looks like the recipe you found was a success. Your sunflowers are making a lovely final showing. Arent' those little fabric baskets handy? I've received a few as cross stitch retreat gifts. We use them to catch our orts. My newest one was accompanied by a matching needlebook. I'll have to check out the book. Have you read The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Mon Kidd. It was pretty good.
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