Super Easy Apple Cake

You wont believe just how easy this cake is to make and it is so moist & delicious it is almost sinful.

Ooops! Half of it was gone before I took the photo - it was THAT good!

This cake is so easy and no one is likely to know that it started with a boxed cake mix. Generally speaking I make my cakes from scratch, however this is so simple and quick and tastes great, that it may just become my go to cake more often. It is my cheat's take on an apple cake a friend's father used to make, who was a Dutch Pastry Chef!

Having a packet cake mix on hand is great for quick unexpected guests or if you rarely bake. You will have no excuses from now on not to have a 'homemade' cake when ever you feel like it and one that will impress your friends and your mother in law! ;)

Just add a egg and a little water to these ingredients and you have a great cake

 

Ingredients:

1 packet butter cake mix
1 egg
1/3rd cup water
800g tinned apples

Cake ready to cook and with the left over apple in the bowl next to it.

1. Preheat you oven 180C (350 F)
2. Line your cake tin with baking paper. I used a square tin.
3. Add cake mix, half the liquid and just one egg and half the and apple pie filling to your mixing bowl.
4. Mix well until all ingredients are combined.
5. Pour the cake mix into your prepared tin. I used a square tin.
6. Top the cake batter with slices of apples and then sprinkle generously with cinnamon sugar.
7. Bake for 35-40 minutes
8. Test with toothpick in between apple slices.

It is lovely served warm with whipped cream for dessert or cold with a lovely cuppa.

It is half gone already!

* I did have some apple slices left over, which I just blended together with a good sprinkle of cinnamon sugar and heated it up to serve on the side with mashed potatoes at our next dinner for my husband. Appelmoes (Apple mousse) is a common Dutch custom to accompany grilled meats.

Enough is enough - life is good once again

That's it! I have had enough. These last 18 months have been terrible and I think I am finally through with all the crap that life can dish out. It's time to turn it around! I can say it again 'Life is great.'

In the last 18 months...

• I've been so very, very sick...a rare form of cancer called Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma. You can read part of my cancer journey starting here.
• I've had numerous operations (7 in 14 months!)...some for the cancer and some for kidney stones.
• I've been badly hurt by people & had some terrible personal challenges to work through...
• As part of my recovery, my husband & I have recently spent 4 lovely months cruising Tasmania in a motorhome.
• I've had to replace my laptop & thus had to learn a whole new interface (and at a time when my brain wasn't functioning the best).
• My sewing machine died and needed replacing.
• Life has made me too tired or dispirited to bother with the little things such as taking & editing photos and writing up my blog posts for a long time.

Oh well that's enough of the bad stuff. Let me say it again: Life is good once again.

I am sorry that I don't post on this blog more often, but I want this blog to be something I enjoy doing not something that I have to force myself to do and thus resent or feel that 'have' to sew or blog or what ever.

Gardening, crafting and traveling are stress relievers for me. As such they are things I love to do and thus if I don't want to sit down and write and such for what ever reason then that's just the way it is. I really do enjoy crafting and I enjoy blogging too. I would like to keep on 'liking' them rather than making it a chore. :)

So our good news?

Rob and I have enjoyed our 5 months leave traveling including 4 months in Tasmania, a little island off the south coast of Australia in our motorhome. You can follow our journeys in Tassie or any of the other places on a separate travel blog that I keep which also includes details of our bus to motorhome conversion.

We came home in time for our beautiful youngest daughter's wedding. She is getting married  to a lovely young man at the end of May and there's some things we wanted hand-made for their wedding.
I promise that I will go into more details with proper photos after the wedding as we don't want to spoil the surprises for anyone attending the wedding.

So far..

• I have helped with the pop up portion of the wedding invitations.
• I have cut & redesigned the wedding veil from my old wedding veil.
• I have made the wedding cake.

Now I am currently working on the hair clips for the flower girls to match the comb part of the wedding veil.
Still to come are table centre pieces, flower girl baskets, wedding favours and maybe the cake boxes.

All these are being done in between general life and catching up with friends and family let alone 6 months worth of weeds. I swear the weeds grow faster than any plants! Grrr!


So thanks so much for stopping by my blog! It is great to be enjoying life again.
I am certainly blessed in so many ways, especially in my husband and my family.
I have so much to be thankful for.

I also love the little notes you guys leave me as well as it gives me a chance to get to know many of you via my blog, so leave me a comment if you will!