Apple Nut Bread: Dessert Recipe Tutorial Video & Food Tale

Dessert Recipe Tutorial Video

Delicious Apple Nut Bread for the Holidays. I got creative with a Zucchini Pineapple Bread recipe from a 1970's cookbook from Broad Street Methodist Church in Kingsport, TN. I made some substitutions and additions. The results smell great and taste even better. Chop up the contents of two 14 ½ ounce cans of Fried Apples. Use juice as well. Place aside in a medium-size bowl. In a large bowl, mix dry ingredients together: 3 cups flour, 2 cups sugar, 2 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp salt, ½ tsp baking powder, 1 tsp Nutmeg, 1 tbsp Apple Pie Spice, and 1 tbsp Cinnamon. Then add 3 beaten eggs, 1 cup Vegetable Oil, & 2 tsp Vanilla Extract. Mix thoroughly. Stir in fried apples with juice. Mix well. Last, add 6 ounces of chopped pecans or chopped walnuts. Stir. Preheat oven to 350°. Pour batter into 2 loaf pans or into a 9"x13" cake pan. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour until a knife comes out clean. (Optional: Pour batter into muffin tins and bake for 25-35 minutes.)

Click DESSERT RECIPE TUTORIAL to watch the video on Associated Content.com.

Yummy Food Memories

When I was a kid, I used to help out at the Halloween Kiwanis Kapers in Kingsport, Tennessee. My father had been a member of Kiwanis since 1967. Just recently, as an aside, he received his 42-year perfect attendance pin.

As an alternative to trick-or-treating, Kiwanis would hold an annual Halloween carnival at the Civic Auditorium. Kids could come, wear their costumes, play games, win prizes, and eat wonderful junk food galore. It was so much fun!

Every year, I would volunteer to help at the cake walk they held up on the stage. I loved doing that. I started helping when I was in the fifth or sixth grade and continued through my senior year in high school. The wives of the Kiwanis members would each bake and donate a delicious cake for this cake walk. As my "pay," they always allowed me to select my favorite cake among the options to take home to share with my family. Inevitably, I would always choose one of the apple nut cakes.

In my attempt to reproduce those tasty memories, this cake was the result. I think it matches, if not surpasses, those memories.

I would love to hear some of your tasty food memories. Feel free to share in the comment section.