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Apple Butter

There is nothing better than the smell of apples and cinnamon cooking in the slow cooker all day! My grandpa gave me a basket of some of his homegrown apples this past weekend. I have always wanted to make my apple butter instead of buying it for 5-6.00$ a jar. Well today is the day. The longest part of the process is peeling the apples! But well worth the time.

Ingredients:
16 Cups of peeled, corded, chopped apples
6 three inch cinnamon sticks
1/4 tsp clove
1/4 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp lemon juice
2 cups of packed brown sugar

Directions:

1. Place all the chopped apple pieces in slow cooker.

2. Add lemon juice, cinnamon sticks, salt and cloves.

3. Top apples with brown sugar.

4. Turn slow cooker on low and cover.

5. Stir every few hours.

6. Cook for 16 to 20 hours.

7. Remove cinnamon sticks and if needed use hand held emulsion blender to purée.

Makes Seven 8 oz jars.

Homemade Cinnamon Applesauce

We still had about 3 pounds of early transparent apples leftover from my grandpa’s orchard so I made some of my grandma’s homemade applesauce.

Ingredients:
3 pounds of apples cored but not peeled
4 cinnamon sticks
The juice of one lemon

1. Chop cored apples

2. Place cored apples in crock-pot, add the juice of one lemon and the cinnamon sticks.

3. Turn crock-pot on high 2-4 hours, stir occasionally.

4. Remove apple sticks before serving

Yields about 4 cups of applesauce! You will love the smell that permeates throughout the entire house.

Overnight French CinnamonToast Casserole

Overnight Cinnamon French Toast

We had a family sleepover last weekend and one of my favorite things to do is bake for my family in the morning! I have been dying to try this recipe. We had Italian bread at dinner so we definitely had some leftover to make this tasty breakfast dish. This recipe was adapted from Ree Drummond’s http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ree-drummond/cinnamon-baked-french-toast-recipe/index.html. One of my favorite things to do is alter recipes so of course I made a few changes and it turned out beautifully!

Yields 12 servings

French Toast Ingredients:
1 cup of egg substitute
4 eggs
1/4 cup of heavy cream
1/4 cup fat free half and half
2 cups of skim milk
One loaf of crusty italian bread (torn into one inch pieces)
1/2 cup of sugar or (Splenda for baking)
1/2 brown sugar
2 TB of pure vanilla
1/2 tsp Vietnamese Cinnamon

Topping Ingredients;
1/2 cup AP Flour
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp Vietnamese Cinnamon
A pinch of ground nutmeg
1 stick of unsalted Butter (cubed)

1. Place all that the cute and bread into a 9 x 13 pan sprayed with Pam are cooking spray.