Roasted Apple Spice Cake

Now that you have your homemade applesauce ready, you can make this cake and eat it too. And I do recommend eating it – it is amazingly delicious. Roasting the apples makes it taste like you have little pockets of apple pie hiding inside your cake. Seriously, who doesn’t want that?

You’re going to have to peel the apples anyway and roasting the apple halves gives you time to figure out if you really want to make cream cheese frosting from scratch or not. I won’t tell if you decide to grab the pre-made stuff if you don’t tell about my habit of using Skippy brand peanut butter in recipes that call for “all natural” peanut butter. Deal?

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

I've noticed this fall has caused a bit of a weird pattern-shift in my posting pattern. No, not the whole "posting regularly" thing (though that's been a nice shock), rather it's the two meat recipes followed by a chocolate recipe on Friday. Weird huh? But who doesn't like a bit of chocolate to perk them up before the weekend? 

I love cookies and I love cake, so clearly seeing a recipe called “Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake” come across my screen I was going to try it. And I loved it! It’s a bit fluffier than simply taking cookie dough and baking it in bar form – so it’s still obviously cake-y, but retains all the things you love about a cookie. Win-win really.

I could pretend this is healthy – whole wheat flour! – but I think the cup and a half of sugar and cup of butter make that fantasy a bit silly. But really, who’s looking for healthy in a recipe called “Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake”?

In any case, I hope you enjoy!