Its been too long!!!

Well after a few weeks' "sabbatical" I have turned the oven back on! This past week I did baking for family...this coming week I have cake orders for customers once again!

But about this past week....

Sometimes its just nice to bake for the kids and hubby sometimes! So this week, that's exactly what I did.

I had some nice granny smith apples, so with the hint of fall in the air right now I decided to bake up one of my family's favorites....German Apple Cake! Moist and full of brown sugar, cinnamon, walnuts, and of course packed with Granny Smith apples....then brushed all over with a brown sugar cinnamon glaze and topped with more walnuts...this cake is SO delicious! It also won a blue ribbon at the Haycreek Apple Festival in (or near?) Morgantown, PA several years ago.

(Pssst! I'm also offering this, as one of the three dessert cakes for sale on November 24th and December 24th ONLY this year!!!! Reserve one today!)

Then I began baking cookies...cookies...and MORE cookies, to bag up and freeze for my kids' school lunches.

I had plenty of Granny Smith apples still...so...made some soft oatmeal/apple/walnut cookies:

Then...some chewy soft sugar (snickerdoodle?) cookies...its an old recipe my sister baked as a teenager...and I borrowed it and its our go-to recipe for soft and chewy, comfort-food cookies! Pepperidge Farm has NOTHING on these gorgeous treats:

Of course, you can't bake cookies without baking a good batch of Toll House cookies. Chocolate chip...Mmmmmm.......

I also made the chewiest, peanut buttery-ist, sweetest, most wonderful peanut butter cookies you will EVER taste. Here is one, among the other cookies I tossed into a pile for yummy photography:

Although cookies are not really technically on my "For Sale" menu...I'm in the mood to share! So here's what I'm going to do: Between now and Saturday (September 4...when I will probably be working on a new blog post), post to this article which cookie flavor above is your favorite, and why! Get your friends to post, too! As long as I have 10 or more replies, on September 5th I will draw a random name and you will win two dozen of the cookie flavor of your choice! Locals only please, unless you would like to pay shipping (which can range from $12-$15...seriously..I just shipped some for $15).

Let the cookie contest begin!!!

***As a side note...all eggs used in my cookies AND cakes are local Pennsylvania eggs, and therefore SAFE from the salmonella recall.***

****UPDATE****

Since nobody replied to the blog, nobody won any cookies. *Sniff*

Oh well...don't forget to keep checking back for cool cake pix!