Apple Breakfast Bake

On Sunday I acquired four large Granny Smith apples—cooking apples—and I’m determined to try some new things with them this week, it being apple season after all.

I first decided to bake my apples into some sort of breakfast treat.  I considered the upside-down apple cake I have mastered, but I wanted to try something new.  So I looked at many recipes online and eventually selected the one requiring the least amount of time to prepare and no ingredients outside my own kitchen (this is probably the best way to select a recipe, but I often fail to consider both of these factors.)  So, I baked a moist cake full of apple chunks in a pie dish.

apple cake with whipped cream

Not too bad, especially warmed up in the microwave a few seconds, but I definitely should have churned up the cinnamon butter the recipe recommended as a condiment.  Three apples to go.