If you want a crowd pleasing recipe even your child could cook, this recipe is the one! I will never use a box recipe ever again after experimenting with this one. This brownie recipe is perfectly soft and rich with the right amount of crunch.

Brownie Ingredients

Directions

1. Mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, salt, cinnamon in a mixing bowl.
2. Add eggs, oils and vanilla. Mix all ingredients until evenly dispersed. Avoid over mixing.
3. Grease small baking pan or pyrex with butter. Pour mixture in pan.
4. Sprinkle brownie batter mixture with chopped pecans.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until center of brownies are slightly firm and a toothpick can be removed with no excess batter on it.
6. Let cool 5-10 minutes then drizzle melted caramel on top of pecans.

Enjoy!

This dessert is the perfect match for the chilly yet beautiful days of Fall. Here is my view as I peer out at the beauty Simple Acres holds from my back door.

Whether it is your treat day at school for the kids, you are making dessert for the holidays or just want a treat late at night as you unwind my Homemade Fudge Brownie with Pecan Crumble is a recipe that will please almost ever one on your list…including yourself!

If you love comfort food this time of year you may enjoy my White Chicken and Spinach Enchiladas  or Potato and Kale Soup. Happy Fall and holidays! Dovidenia. XO

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This recipe simplifies the ability to treat oneself in decadence and moderation. My version of apple pie is a will be using the apple itself as the “container” for the pie to create a perfectly portioned treat! What I love about these Simple Apple Pie Minis is they are simple to make and satisfying to in a mini size.

Easy Apple Pie Bites

Ingredients:

• 3 apples (I used Breaburn and Granny Smith.)
• Pie crust pre-made or homemade
• cinnamon to preference on top of dessert
• 2-3 Tbsp all purpose flour
• 1/3 to 1/2 cup apple juice
• 1/2 – 1 tsp apple pie spice
• 1 beaten egg
• 4-6 Tbsp of sugar; may add slowly and taste per preference for increased sugar need for mixture
• caramel sauce, drizzle on top per preferance

Directions:

1. Wash your apples then cut them in half.
2. Use a melon baller to scoop the flesh out of the center of the apples as pictured below. Discard the seeds then save the rest of the apple flesh for pie filling.

3. Chop the flesh of the apple into small pieces and cook on medium to low heat in a pan with the apple juice, flour, sugar and apple pie spice. Once the apples have softened and the liquid is thickened the mixture is done. Replace it back into the apple bowls.

4. Cut the pie crust to be slightly larger that the apple top. Cover the bowls with pie crust. Lightly brush the crust with egg, then sprinkle them with cinnamon and sugar.

5. Bake at 400 degrees F for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.

These Simple Apple Pie Minis are beyond simple and have won the yum award at my home from young and old! Will you add this recipe to your Fall lineup? I know I will be.

If you would like more inspiration in desserts you may also love this Key Lime Pie recipe

or this Cherry Cheesecake one:

So there you have it friends, delicious desserts that inspire memory making and enjoyable eating.

Dovidenia. XO

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The Summer heat, family gatherings and joy of a time spent with loved ones inspired these fun, light and simple desserts. The berries and whipping cream are beautiful and the taste and textures will win anyone over for days! Who needs a NEW delicious recipe that will impress any crowd? My Berry Ambrosia Cookie Cups are the perfect addition to any gathering! This delectable treat was originally shared at Lolly Jane.

I remember playing with my cousins outside all times of the day and night in the Summer. We were lost in our imaginary world soaking up childhood. I loved picking raspberries as a child. It was a sort of “living off the land” type of event. It was so delicious and enjoyable collecting berries and eating them all before they would make it back into the kitchen. Berries whisper warm weather to my heart. I wanted to create something that when I held it in my hand it brought me back,,,just for a moment…to those sweet Summers once again. I hope you savor this one as much as I did while making them!

Ingredients:

• fresh variety of berries
• whole whipping cream
• maple syrup
• pistachio pudding mix
• lime juice from 1 lime
• slivered almonds
• sugar cookie makings ( 2 3/4 cups all purpose flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 1/4 cup butter, 2 cups white sugar, 2 eggs, 2 tsp vanilla extract)

Cookie Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl. Set aside.
2. Cream together the butter and 2 cups of sugar in a medium mixing bowl, until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time then vanilla. Stir in the dry ingredients until just blended. Roll the dough out flat and use a circular small Pyrex bowl to form your cookie bowls.

3. For the bowls push your cut out circular dough into the inside of an oiled muffin pan.

4. Once dough is placed in the muffin tin cut off the excess cookie dough.

5. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. While still soft take a spoon and push in and remold the cookies into             bowls in the muffin pan. Bake 5 min and repeat this one more time for 20 minutes total of bake time. If                 your cookies settle in the bowl shape and cook well this may be achieved in a total of 15 minutes.

6. While cookie cups are cooling take 1/2 cup of whipping cream and hand whisk rapidly by hand 5-10 minutes        or with a mixer 3 minutes on high or until fluffy and slightly cohesive. Mix in 1-2 Tbsp maple syrup, 1/3                  package of pistachio mix and lime juice. Be careful not to over mix or it will turn into butter.

7. Lastly, fill your yummy sugar cookie cup with your homemade whip cream. Top that creamy goodness with  fresh berries and slivered almonds. Enjoy!

This recipes offers a decadent yet light dessert in a moderate bite size portion. If you love this recipe you may also love my bite size key lime pies or my amazing peach cobbler! Dovidenia. XO

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