I love apple fritters, but there are two major issues with them: 1. often they are lacking in the apples and 2. fried food. Well, fried food could almost be acceptable, except that when I fry stuff at home, it is always a major production. And then there is the matter of what to do with the oil. So instead, I made this Apple Fritter Bread. It’s got tons of apples, is probably healthier because it is just baked, but yet it is still buttery, light and fluffy. And it is really easy to make so no worries there. Breakfast on a Sunday morning.
Sweet Snacks
I apparently am still enthralled with cinnamon chips. It started in the fall — apparently autumn is a cinnamon season when I could even still find cinnamon chips in the shops — but now that I have a huge stash of them, I am trying out all sorts of things. To wit, these spicy chocolate cookies with cinnamon chips. They smelled amazing whilst baking and taste even more amazing. A bit spicy (with chili powder in the almost-brownie like batter) and lots of cinnamon. Yum.
Every once in a white, in the middle of gray winters, you need something bright. Something tangy. Something vibrant. Enter this tart. As you all know, I have this “thing” for Meyer lemons and it is the season right now, so I made this tart. I’m made things before with the rosemary and Meyer lemon combination and I really love it.
Maple is one of my favorite flavors. It also is a “winter” flavor for me, though I don’t really have a reason for that. Pancakes are year round food, so why should maple syrup only be reserved for winter on my pallet? Inexplicable. But it is of course still winter and it’s frigid out at that, so I’m just going to stay inside with these lovely cookies. They will not last the weekend.