Tasty Orange Cake

Winter is the time to enjoy citrus fruits. Oranges ripen starting in November (depending on the kind of orange) through May.  Lots of us enjoy orange juice for taste and for health benefits with its vitamin C.  Today let’s discuss a sweet treat of orange cake made with orange juice and zest.  With one large orange and one medium orange, you can have the zest and juice to add lots of delicate flavor to a white cake and butter cream icing.  The cake is really wonderful plain too if you want cut some calories. If you ice the cake, I’d suggest you add some orange segments as decorations. Even orange slices  look great.

 

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Fall Apple Crisp

There is nothing better than the fresh scent of apples in the fall – except the smell of apples baking with cinnamon in a fabulous fall treat.  Today let’s talk apple crisp. You don’t have to make a crust and it only takes a few minutes to whip together a little flour, oatmeal, and sugar to top off your fresh apple slices. You can use a oven-proof bowl for a small deep-dish apple crisp, or even use a loaf pan for a small serving. If a huge crowd is coming over, double it in a sheet cake pan.  That would feed lots of people.

 

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