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.
Your sunflowers are so very pretty!
I've used applesauce as a substitute for oil, but not eggs. Interesting. Love those sunflowers.
Your cake looks delicious, Diann!!! Very handy travel tray! I think your hayride float counts!!! I went on a hayride just a couple weeks ago at a farm turned park that belonged to my great-great grandparents!
That bee book sounds like an interesting read. I may have to check that one out. Your cake looks delicious and I can find no fault with subbing chocolate chips for raisins ever! Lol! Hope your weekend will be wonderful!
How do the snaps work? It's a cute little basket. Book sounds interesting -- and the cake looks delicious!
Thanks for the book review, added to my to-read list at the library.
Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was part of a group that was exploring low fat baking. I remember that apple sauce was a butter substitute. I like the idea of adding chocolate chips rather than raisins. Your cake looks really yummy.
Diann - that recipe for Applesauce Cake sounds delicious! I am also very intrigued by the Music of Bees! I have been reading The Genius of Birds (Jennifer Ackerman) with our son - such a talented writer at combining science/research with her own personal experiences. Joining you from LeeAnna's I Like Thursday!
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