Apple Cake

 I have been into making apple pies lately.  One fall I must have baked double digits of apple crisp.  But today I was just hungry for apple cake.

I had bought more apples at Hillside Acres last Friday, I think it was.  Then on Saturday morning we bought even more apples at Payless (for less $ a pound than at Hillside Acres--no surprise there!).    So I had plenty, even though Gary and the kiddos had been eating some apples as snacks the last few days.

The search began for my apple cake recipe.  I know that Mom's recipe was somewhere; I just didn't know where.  Plus I knew that Gary preferred the icing that his mom always made for apple cake over the one included with Mom's recipe, so I was searching for that one also.

First thing was going through the recipe boxes. I pulled two of the ones I used most often off the shelf in the little island.  I found several main dishes that I wanted to use in the next week or so, and I pulled them out for future reference.  No apple cake though.  Since I couldn't reach far enough into the lower shelf of the little island without getting down on my knees, I called Owen for help.  That little cutie had to put his head into the shelf area and reach as far as his long arms could to pull out three of the remaining recipe boxes.  One was double in length, and one that I took from Mom's kitchen.  Another was my old green metal recipe box, very well-organized and neatly down in my junior high/high school handwriting, but it wasn't in my possession until after we cleaned out the house in Wooster.  Just another one of those items that Mom wouldn't let me have----even though it was mine. 

But I digress.....still no Apple Cake recipe.

Next was the small recipe book that I received as a Secret Santa gift from Bobbi Doll when we were all in the Extension Homemakers Club, Fireside Friends.  As I flipped through it, knowing that there was no apple cake recipe written on its pages, I was surprised to find one of the recipes I was looking for!  Agnes' Apple Cake Frosting!  Gary's favorite!

 

Just about the last resort---the small spiral bound recipe book that I bought at Borders on the Levee in West Lafayette when they were closing the store---going out of business.  We had been wandering around in there, just looking for a bargain or two, and I spotted that cute recipe book. I added special recipes to the pages that were provided, recipes that were favorites so I would have easier access to them. Now, though, there are so many printouts of recipes I have found online or that have been posted by friends on FB stuck in the book too that it is overflowing and stuffed full.   But......as I flipped through the desserts section, I found Mom's Apple Cake recipe!  Yeah!

 

The apple cake turned out great, and I was making the frosting on the stove after Megan left with Lynnlee and before Hilary came to pick up Owen.  The frosting is supposed to be poured onto a hot cake--and it was!  It looked SO good....caramel and coconut.  

 

Funny that I went through five recipe boxes, searching for two old recipes that I found later in two of the created-by-me books of family favorites.  But I did find a few other recipes that I had forgotten about and need to try again in the next week or so.

Apple Cake for us and for Michelle when she visits to review our Medicare and supplement plans.  

And Stuffed Shells for dinner tomorrow.....

And Taco Soup for the weekend.

And who knows what other old recipe will appear on the table next week?

Bon Appetit!