Apple Spiced Cake Pops

Well this is the first time I am blogging about something that was a little bit of a failure. The recipe is absolutely delicious, but it didn't work as a cake pop. I should have dipped it in white chocolate but I was too adventurous and thought it would work with a icing sugar frosting. Again it was wonderful tasting, just very hard to actually come out right. If I ever do it again I think I will just pour a small dollop of icing on top and serving it like a truffle.

Easy Apple and Tayberry crumble

The last part of my pregnancy was really hard, I just really wanted my baby to get here but she was stubborn and was late. One of the things that we decided to do to distract me from my overly pregnant state was go out to the pick-your-own farm and get some fresh berries. Twelve hours later interestingly enough after this very pregnant lady spent a few hours bending down picking strawberries and walking along bushes gathering other berries I went into labor. Maybe she smelled the delicious berries we were gathering and just had to come out to try some I am not really sure but I am glad she did decide to finally make her appearance. So now we have tons of large bags of a wide variety of berries in the freezer it is fun to come up with ways to use them. Strangely enough when I was pregnant I really didn't want sweet things, but ever since this little one popped out my sweet tooth has been alive and kicking so this has made our berry reserve even more tantalizing.  One of the berries that we picked was one that I had never tried before, a tayberry, which looks a lot like a very large blackberry but has more similar characteristics to a raspberry. So I decided to play around with these berries for the first time and create an apple and tayberry crumble. Again focusing on ease because of the baby, a crumble is a fantastic way to enjoy the deliciousness of a desert without having to go through a lot of effort.

Apple Shortbread Bars is a match made in heaven

Now this is where I get really excited, because I must confess to being a bit boring when it comes to sweet dishes.  I have never really liked chocolate so that has always made me the strange one.  But what I do love might seem rather dull to others but I just LOVE apple desserts.  Give me a plain old apple pie any day and I would be happy.  So when I was blog surfing for ideas and I stumbled across a recipe the blog, A Whisk and Prayer, I knew it would be love at first bite.