This is my mom recipe, probably the only one she gave me!
Not because she's mean, but because she doesn't really love cooking.
In fact calling it recipe is a big word!
It's more about putting this ingredients together till having a nice dough, unless add more flour or milk
But anyway this was my first (failed) cooking experiment and also my final arrive
Create something based on what there's in the pantry, always with a smile on, and adding love as secret ingredient
I watched her making this cake so many times.. but never in the same way and never failed! and always asking how is that possible?
The perfume of this cake, a mix of apple sugar and cinnamon, bring me direct at childhood when dad, just back home, were turning the face of a heavy working day into a happy smile just smelling in the air that the apple cake was in the oven!
Even if I worked in many pastry shops, this one is the only cake I'm not able to reply because every time I try to add some perfections in it and that end just to ruin it!
If you'll try to make it, you'll ends out with a really good cake but believe me: nothing compared with my mum's one!!

Fave Memory- 'La Flottille' is an illustration of the cutest cafe i stumbled across, nestled in the park of Versailles. I ate tarte tatin and drunk warm chocolate poured by the most wonderfully flamboyant waiter. The cafe exhibited the 1920s in every corner with its electric lamps, coffee posters and dainty vases of freesias. I am longing to go back, not for the splendour of Versailles but for those caramelised apples!

One of the memories I was trying to capture in this illustration was my Grandma Vida baking her famous and certainly most delicious apple pie in the world.
I have translated my Slovene recipe, which is good, but there is no way I can make a pie as good as she used to.

Details of the Apple Pie elements from my "Nobody Likes a Soggy Bottom" Tea Towel on Spoonflower. Blind baking your crust, peeling apples, and enjoying your delicious pie with a big dollop of whipped cream.

Mum's tatty old orange notebook, full of scribbled recipes. I never liked chunks of baked apple, but this recipe had the thin slices layered with sugar and water, dissolving the apple into a yummy jam! Swimming in custard. The perfect Sunday pud. Mmmm..

Fave Memory: Every fall, my parents would take our family to Patterson's Fruit Farm. It became a family tradition for us (like for so many families in Northeast Ohio). And now I happily continue this tradition with my children. Fall = Patterson's, apple picking, waiting in line for apple fritters & pie and buying cider to enjoy at home! Everything about it makes me smile :) Highly recommend for fall fun and lasting memories.

Perfect savory and sweet squash soup. Best consumed with comfy socks on a rainy day.

In our 20s, my sister and I used to do a lot of long distance bike camping, and our go-to cooking method amounted to “wrap it up in tin foil and throw it in the fire!” This breakfast my sis invented is GENIUS. Multigrain bagel for fibre, apple for ... fibre as well, I suppose, and chocolate caramel for fun!

Symmetry drawing challenge for kids...just follow the "recipe"!

Food Geometry

Yummy, mini apple pies are a snap to to make! And beautiful...they look like blooming roses. Sprinkle with powdered sugar just before serving.

A wonderfull and healthy way to start your day

I like the idea that Candy Apples are called "Love Apples" in French as well as in German! So here is a Birthday Bash situation with two honeymooning Granny Smiths

A mix of a classic American pie and the Italian famous strudel