Recipes to share and a holiday card

Today I thought I would share some easy fall recipes with you all. I don't know about you but I am craving some yummy fall comfort food......especially anything with apples in it!

Earlier today I made some Apple Crisp but I changed up the recipe a bit.....just wanted to expirament with the crispy topping ! I used steel cut oats instead of rolled oats....basically because that's all I had on hand......and I wanted to try to add some chopped pecans to it as well as I really love nuts.

The topping turned out great- a bit crispier than usual which made my mouth very happy! If you don't have steel cut oats on hand no worry.....just use regular rolled oats. I chopped the pecans in my food processor and added it right to the topping mix. Here is the recipe!

Apple Crisp

4-5 medium apples
3/4 cups brown sugar
1/3 cup flour (unbleached)
1/2 cup rolled or steel cut oats
1/4 cup finely chopped pecans
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/3 cup softened butter

Heat oven to 375 degrees, peel, slice and arrange apples in an 8x8 lightly greased pan. Mix dry ingredients in a medium bowl and cut the butter into the dry ingredients to form soft small clumps. Sprinkle this mixture over the apples and bake for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown on top and apples are tender. Serve with vanilla ice cream or whip cream....whatever you prefer! YUMMM :)
Serves 6-8.....or less if you are really hungry- ha ha!


Next up is a sweet Halloween treat recipe that my son brought home from school. I have yet to actually make it but plan on doing so as soon as I get all the ingredients. Are ya ready for the name of it?

Bat Poop- eeeeek!

What a gross name (kids will LOVE that)!  I promise it is really good and no actual bat poop is in the  ingredients! It sounds very simple and quick and older kids can even help you with it.

Here it is!

Bat Poop

1-  12 ounce package of chocolate chips
1- 12 ounce package of butterscotch chips
1 cup cashew nuts (chopped or broken into small pieces)
1 cup banana chips
1 large can/bag of chow mein noodles

Dump the chocolate and butterscotch chips into a microwave safe dish. Microwave for 1 minute- stir it up- microwave for 1 more minute or until melted. Stir again.  Make sure you use oven mitts as it will be hot! Break up the banana chips while the chips are melting in the microwave. Remove the melted chips using your oven mitts and dump in the banana chips, cashews, and chow mein noodles. Stir again. Drops clumps of the bat poop onto a cookie sheet (I would use wax paper here). Place the cookie sheet into the fridge until the bat poop is firm. Then lets those kids eat em up- I bet they will get a kick out of telling their friends they ate bat poop- ha ha!!

Sounds like great recipe for a spooky Halloween party :)


I did happen to make a card a few days ago......my first Christmas card of the season- wohoo! I played along with this months Hero Arts challenge to make a holiday card using non-traditional stamps.Some snowflakes, a pine tree stamp, and the cute snowman....and then of course a holiday sentiment!





I stamped the snowflakes using distress ink and white pigment ink and the trees got embossed with polysparkle embossing powder. They really shine in the right light- too bad it doesn't show up in the picture. Just a simple little winter scene for someone I know who isn't into the religious aspect of Christmas!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Inky Hugs........................Anne