Grandpa Baadsgaard's Apple Crisp

DAD'S RECIPE "APPLE CRISP"

Cake:
4 cups granny apples, about 1/2 in. pieces
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp salt
2 eggs stirred with
1 T. vanilla
1/2 cup oil

Topping:
1 cup chopped nuts
1 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup butter

Mix all parts of cake except flour. Then mix in flour.
Place in pan, smooth down. Thru (sic) all nuts to top, then spread brown sugar then add melted butter with brush.

Bake at 375 for 55 to 60 min.

Apple Crisp

I crave apples like crazy right now. I have had a hankering for apple crisp. I got Grandpa B's "apple crisp" recipe from Mom that I will post on here for fun, but it is more of a apple nut cake and I really wanted an oatmeal type apple crisp. I searched the web and found a recipe here and it was dang good!! So here ya go if you are wanting some apple crisp.

I only made a small batch because I thought the kids wouldn't eat it. (I was wrong.) However, even though I only did half the apple mixture part, I made the full amount of the crumb topping because I think that more crumb topping is best, and it for sure wasn't too crumby :) ***My suggestion is if you make the full 9x13 size, make more crumb topping.

Ingredients

• 10 cups all-purpose apples, peeled, cored and sliced
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup water
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• 1 cup quick-cooking oats
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup butter, melted

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degree C).
2. Place the sliced apples in a 9x13 inch pan. Mix the white sugar, 1 tablespoon flour and ground cinnamon together, and sprinkle over apples. Pour water evenly over all.
3. Combine the oats, 1 cup flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and melted butter together. Crumble evenly over the apple mixture.
4. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 45 minutes.

Baked Smores

I found this recipe on Pinterest, made them and dream about them a lot. I bought the ingredients to make more just days after we finished off the pan. It was so easy too.  Here's the link to the blog where I got it, complete with pictures. I followed the recipe exactly and made it in a 11x7 pan.

Baked S'mores
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/3 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt (optional)
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs (approximately 5 full graham crackers)
1 tsp baking powder
2 or 3 super-sized (5 oz.) chocolate bars (e.g. Hershey’s)
1 1/2 cups marshmallow creme/fluff (or mini marshmallows if you must!)


Directions


Preheat oven to 350. Grease bottom of pan.

In a large bowl or stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg and vanilla.

In a small bowl, whisk together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt.

Add to butter mixture and mix at a low speed until combined.

Divide dough in half and press half of dough into an even layer on the bottom of the prepared pan. Place chocolate bars over dough. Two 5 oz. Hershey’s bars should fit perfectly [for 8 by 8] side by side, but break the chocolate (if necessary) to get it to fit in a single layer. [use 3 Hershey's for 12 by 8 pan]

Spread marshmallow fluff evenly over the chocolate layer.

Place remaining dough in a single layer on top of the creme. This is most easily done by putting the second half of the dough in a gallon size freezer bag. Use your palms or rolling pin to flatten it out, and then use scissors to cut down both long sides of the bag, so it will open up book-style. Open it up carefully, and the dough will stick on one side of the bag. Then place the bag, dough side down, on the other three layers. From there peel the bag up and carefully spread the dough where it is uneven.

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool completely or almost completely for the melty factor before cutting into bars.

Enjoy!