Celeste loooves to eat — especially
Aunt Doreen’s and her mom’s cooking!

Here are two of
her favorite recipes.

 

Aunt Doreen’s Butterscotch Apple Crumb Cake of Temptation
(with thanks to Martha Stewart's Cherry-Struesel Coffee Cake)

1/2 stick of butter
1 cup of flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup sour cream
1 macintosh apple, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1 cup of streusel (below)
Butterscotch Ice Cream Topping

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, grease a loaf pan (9x4 or 5)

• Beat the butter, sugar, egg and vanilla until light and fluffy. A stand mixer does this very well.

• Add about 1/2 the flour, baking powder, soda and salt, then the sour cream, then the rest of the flour and all that.

• Pour about 1/2 the batter into the loaf pan, lay about 1/2 of the apple slices on the batter, top with 1/2 of the streusel, then another layer of apples, top with the remaining batter, and then the reamining streusel.
Like this: batter, apples, streusel, apple, batter streusel

• Bake for 40-50 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.

• Remove the cake from the pan to cool on a rack, drizzle with butterscotch topping - serve while still warm.... Yummy with ice cream and more butterscotch.

Rough streusel recipe :
1/2 stick butter, room temperature
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
2 tsps cinnamon (just dump it in until it feels right)
couple of dashes cloves
1 tablespoon flour
2 handfuls of nuts - optional, in case nuts will kill you. I used walnuts, but I bet pecans would be delish.

• Smoosh it up until the texure is right - kind of crumbly.

Mom’s Homemade Mac and Cheese

1 lb pasta shells
1/2 cup milk
1 cup sour cream
1 tbsp dijon mustard
2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
4-6 oz extra sharp cheddar

1/2 sleeve Ritz crackers
parmesan cheese


• Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and spray casserole dish with cooking spray.

• Prepare pasta according to package directions.

• While pasta is cooking, melt together milk, sour cream, mustard and cheeses with salt & pepper to taste in medium saucepan.

• Drain pasta, mix in cheesey goodness.

• Pour into prepared caserole dish, top with crushed Ritz crackers and plenty of parmesan.

Bake for 30 minutes and enjoy!!

(recipes courtesy of Dianne Simonini)