Placerville Apple Hill Cake Recipes

APPLE HILL CAKE

Steps:

• Combine sugar,oil,and eggs in a large bowl, stirring until well mixed.
• Stir in diced apples and nuts.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, nutmeg,cinnamon and salt, then add to bowl.
• Stir all ingredients together to form a batter (do not overmix).
• Pour into 9x13 inch greased pan.
• Bake one hour in a 350 degree oven.

PLACERVILLE APPLE HILL CAKE

Steps:

• Combine: Sugar, oil, eggs and apples. Sift in flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda. Mix until combined. Pour into a 9x13 greased pan and bake for 1 hour in a preheated 350 degree oven. Serve hot or cold with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

ANT HILL CAKE

Steps:

• Place Oreo's in food processor and process to coarse texture.
• Add peppermint patties and process to coarse texture.
• Coat a 10 inches spring form pan with cooking spray, add cookie mixture and press down gently to coat bottom and up 1/2 inches on the sides.
• By spoonfuls, add ice cream.
• Use back of a spoon to smooth ice cream evenly on the top.
• Cover with foil and freeze overnight.
• Place vanilla wafers in food processor and blend until smooth.
• Place in a sealed bag until needed and store at room temperature.
• Remove rim of spring form pan and place cake on serving platter.
• On one side of cake, slowly pour vanilla wafer crumbs to form a mound, or "anthill.".
• Arrange "ants" on cake using one chocolate covered almond for each body and one chocolate covered caramel for each head.
• Pipe on eyes and legs with gel.
• Garnish with candy corn.

DUTCH APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Combine crust mixture.
• Reserve 1 cup and press the rest in a pie tin.
• Put apples in crust.
• In a small pan mix water, sugar, salt, and cornstarch. Cook while stirring until mixture gets thick.
• Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and bitters.
• Pour hot custard over apples.
• Sprinkle reserved cup of crumbs over pie.
• Bake at 350°F for 50 to 60 minutes until crust is crunchy.

APPLE STREUSEL SQUARES

Steps:

• Set oven to 375 degrees.
• Lightly grease a 13 x 9-inch metal baking pan.
• Prepare the streusel topping (as follows).
• In a medium bowl, with hands, mix the 3/4 cup flour, pecans, 1/3 cup brown sugar, butter, vanilla and cinnamon until the mixture comes together; set aside.
• To prepare the crust: In a large bowl, mix together the 2 tbsp flour sugar and salt.
• Cut in 1/2 cup COLD butter into small bits.
• With fingertips, blend the cold butter into the flour mixture, until it resembles fine crumbs.
• Press the mixture into the bottom of the prepared baking pan.
• Bake crust for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown (crust may crack slightly).
• Meanwhile, in a 10-inch skillet, over medium heat, cook the apples, raisins, brown sugar, cinnamon, and 3 Tbsp butter for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the apples are tender (but not mushy).
• In a cup, mix the cornstarch and lemon juice; stir the mixture into the apple mixture (the mixture will thicken almost immediately); remove from heat.
• Spoon the apple mixture evenly over the baked crust.
• Scatter the streusel mixture over the apple mixture in the pan.
• Bake for 30 minutes, or until streusel is browned.
• Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack.
• When cold, cut lenghwise into 3 strips, then cut each strip crosswise into 5 pieces.