What We're Eating - A Food & Recipe Blog » apples http://www.whatwereeating.com a Food & Recipe blog Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:56:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Cinnamon Apple Pecan Crumb Bars http://www.whatwereeating.com/recipes/cinnamon-apple-pecan-crumb-bars/ http://www.whatwereeating.com/recipes/cinnamon-apple-pecan-crumb-bars/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:18:20 +0000 Amanda http://www.whatwereeating.com/?p=1360
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    Mmm... gooey apple cinnamon deliciousness!

    We’re eating cinnamon apple pecan crumb bars made with local fuji apples and drizzled with cream cheese cinnamon icing.

    Every year apple season (aka fall) brings with it a wave of nostalgia, and I can’t help but reminisce about the autumns of my youth. Growing up in Virginia fall meant the leaves turned from green to lovely shades of vibrant orange, red, yellow and deep purple. Along with the cool air, fall also brought with it loads of glorious apples. The house I grew up in had 2 apple trees, 2 peach trees, 2 cherry trees and 2 seckel pear tree in the front yard, thus we never had a shortage of fresh fruit to feast on throughout the growing season. While my family never made these particular cinnamon apple pecan crumb bars, they certainly have the flavors that I associate with fall. There’s just something so comforting about the combination of cinnamon and apples. Between Tyler, our neighbor and Nicole & Justin these bars were gone almost as soon as they were made! They’re super simple and sure to be a great fall crowd pleaser.

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    Scrumdiddilyumptious

    With apple season upon us, how could we resist the urge to make a sweet and buttery fresh crisp with apples we picked ourselves! For a midweek treat we’re eating an apple crisp made with rolled oats, panko, flour, butter, sugar, and spices. The peeled apples were tossed with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cayenne. Overall it was a great celebration of fall and the chilly weather to come.

    Apple on a tree
    Julian, CA apple orchard    A: okay… so for me, a crisp is really a cop-out. it means that i didn’t want to put the effort into researching other desserts or making a crust or puff pastry, etc… but let me say this was a grrrrrreat cop-out!
    T: totally. I don’t give 2 poops about how much effort went into it. I care about how it tastes, and this tasted fantttttastic! I love crisps- they’re as much about the buttery crisp part as they are about the apples (or other fruit). This was a good one. It’s cool that it was so easy.
    A: i know, there really is nothing to a crisp. smoosh some stuff together, throw it on top of some sweetened fruit.. batabing, bataboom… you’ve got crisp!
    T: what do you mean, “sweetened fruit”? fruit with sugar on it?
    A: sure, but you could also sweeten with honey, or brown sugar, or artificial sweetener-
    T: booo. Artificial sweetener?!? eeehhh. ok, go on.
    A: anywho, fruit is rarely ever sweet enough on its own for a sugary dessert…. that is unless you like it tart! oooo! we should mention that we hand picked these organic apples at an orchard about 60 miles away in Julian, CA.
    T: we certainly did, and it was fun. Until we ate too many apples, felt nauseated, and proceeded to get into the car with your dad behind the wheel. I like your dad a lot. That said, it was a jerky drive. Stomaches were upset. Moving on.
    A: before moving on, let me say mine was fine! what wasn’t fine was the wine we tasted at the little winery directly beside the orchard! i believe the name of the place was Menghini. Let’s just say we tasted all they had in the tasting room and by the end I know i didn’t want to buy anything.
    T: true. We’re not in Napa by any means. It was better than the strawberry wine at the Ponchatula Strawberry Festival we had a few years ago though. By far.
    A: speak it my brother! that stuff was rank!
    T: so, back to business. What are you going to rate this apple crisp?
    A: for this i’m going to have to only compare the crisp to other sweets when i rate it. very few sweets rate as high as savories for me overall. this crisp gets a 4.33/5. that’s a great score! i think it was my best crisp yet. i used a few unusual ingredients this time that weren’t too noticeable. cayenne and panko for instance.
    T: Yeah, I didn’t notice the cayenne (although I did see you put the panko in there). wait, I put the panko in there because your hands were dirty. Anyway, I give the crisp a 4.7/5. It was a stellar dessert, and I could happily gobble a gallon of it. Maybe not a gallon.
    A: great! because we’re about to leave town for a wedding and we still have 2/3 of it in the fridge. apple crisp for dinner anyone?
    T: ok that’s going too far.

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