Sourdough Apple Muffins

Baking muffins is one of my favorite ways to use sourdough starter.  The starter helps enrich the flavor without adding to much fat.  In fact, I tend to half the amount of butter or oil in my recipes any time I use my sourdough starter.  The starter will also give your muffins a great texture…

Pineapple Upside Down Pancakes

I am a big fan of breakfast for dinner, have been since my college years.  Breakfast for dinner is easy, fast, comforting, and familiar.  But what about dessert for dinner? I have had a strange craving for pineapple upside down cake lately, and I am reluctant to bake an entire cake for myself with Thanksgiving…

Apple Cider Donut Muffins

Apple cider donuts are a big thing in Vermont around this time of year.  Weekends are spent at your local orchard picking apples, and indulging in fresh, right out of the fryer, melt in your mouth, cider donuts.  A little something to warm and revitalize you after an afternoon spent outside enjoying the crisp fall…

Vegan Apple Pop-tarts

I was scrounging around this weekend for a portable, vegan-friendly, nut-free breakfast treat, and these vegan apple pop-tarts were what I was able to come up with – a spiced homemade apple sauce filling, with a orange-zest flavored pastry dough, coated in a lemon drizzle. Apple Sauce Filling Ingredients: 6-8 Apples – skinned, quartered, and…