Honey Apple-Pear Peanut Butter Tart

• 1 puff pastry sheet
• 3 fruits (any combo of apples and pears)
• 2 Tbsp honey (and extra for drizzling as a topping)
• 1/2 heaping cup peanut butter
• 2 Tbsp sugar

Head peanut butter in microwave until soft and liquidy. Add honey. Spread mixture over puff pastry sheet. Layer with apples and pears. Drizzle with extra honey and sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for ~35 minutes.

Original recipe.

Apple Walnut Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 2/3 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup oi
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1-2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 4 cups chopped, peeled apples
• 1 cup crushed/chopped walnuts
  

Mix sugar and eggs. Add oil, vanilla, mix. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg. Slowly add to sugar mixture. Stir in chopped apples and walnuts. Pour into greased and floured baking pan (13x9). Bake at 350 for ~55 minutes (check with a toothpick). Cool on a wire rack. Cut into small sized bars. Recipe from this website.

Apple Cheddar Sandwich

Who would have thought this combination exists and is actually good? As simple as a slice of cheddar cheese with sliced apples on bread (I used Arnold's multi grain sandwich thins). Toasted.

Apple Pear Crumble

Crust:

• 2 cups flour, heaped
• 1/2 to 2/3 cup oil
• Milk (enough so oil + milk equals one full cup)
  

Filling:

• 48 Nilla wafers, crushed
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1 package cream cheese, softened (I used neufchatel)
• 6-7 apples, peeled and thinly sliced (I used Granny Smith)
• 3-4 pears, peeled and thinly sliced
  
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2/4 cup flour
• 2 tsp cinnamon

Heat oven to 375. Mix ingredients for pie crust until soft, spread out into bottom of baking dish. Mix wafer crumbs, brown sugar, and butter, set off to the side. Spread cream cheese on the pie crust layer, then sprinkle half of the wafer crumb mixture on top. Mix sugar, flour, and cinnamon, and mix with the fruit slices. Toss slices until coated. Make the coated fruit slices the next layer on the pie. Top with the remaining wafer crumb mixture. Bake 35 minutes until the fruit is soft and lightly browned.

The original recipes for the crust and crumble are here and here.

*I didn't use the unbaked refrigerated/frozen pie crusts because they're made with lard. If anyone knows of pork-free frozen pie crusts, let me know.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Strawberry Cookies

Yummers. These turned out super soft, perhaps I should have used butter instead of the vegetable oil sticks to make the cookies hold a bit stronger (like the original recipe said to do), but they turned out good anyways.

• 1 cup 70% vegetable oil sticks (2 sticks)
• 1 1/4 cups brown sugar
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups flour
  
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 heaping tsp cinnamon
• 3 cups oats
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries, cut in quarters
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
  

Mix wet ingredients. Mix dry ingredients, but save chocolate chips and strawberries for later. Combine the two mixes. Carefully fold in chocolate chips and strawberries so you don't break/crush the berries. Bake at 350 for about 15-20 minutes.

Apple Cupcakes

This recipe is kinda cheating, but it's yummy. Mix the batter for a regular yellow cake using any box cake mix. Set the cake batter aside.

• 2 apples, peeled and chopped
  
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Bring the above 3 ingredients to boil on the stove. They'll melt together...I only boiled long enough so that I could get the tasty mix, but still have chunks of apples to bite into. If you want, you can keep cooking the apples until it turns into a smooth creamy applesauce. Add this mixture to the cake batter and bake! I baked them an extra 5 minutes than suggested on the box. Top with a cinnamon-vanilla or cinnamon-cream cheese frosting.

Blueberry Muffins

I've obviously bought a stock of blueberries recently. =) These turned out great, too. The only difference I tried was that I actually melted the butter that I used for the crumb topping. So instead of crumbs, it turned out to be a gooey cinnamon-y paste that I slathered on top of each muffin for baking -- it turned out like a cinnamon streusel topping. (Baked for 22 minutes).

Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies

DE-LI-CIOUS.

Freezing the blueberries before use definitely helped a LOT. It kept them from being squished when being mixed in.