Apples bake into such tasty desserts…but sometimes you might just not feel like pulling all the ingredients out of the cupboard or heading to the neighbor to borrow a cup of sugar.

Did you know that we have quite a few pre-made baking mixes available at the orchard to save you a little time?

You can mixes for crisp, cakes, and muffins!  The other morning, Cedi and I decided to surprise the family by making an Apple Crisp.  I grabbed one of our mixes and before we knew it – we had a delicious, aromatic apple crisp baking in the oven.

Cedi did the peeling, coring, slicing, of the apples for me.  All we needed was a quarter peck of apples – we decided to add just a few scarlet apples to the mix just for the fun pink color!  And yes – I love my suction peeler/corer/slicer machine.  It saves me so much time whenever I’m baking or making sauce!  We have both the suction and clamp machines available in our shop.

Once we had the apples peeled, sliced and cored, we just had to add the mix to some butter, sprinkle it over the apples and put it in the oven!

And just over 30 minutes later we had a delicious little dessert to go along with our lunch!

So, next time your in the shop see what Baking Mixes we have out.  They’re great for a special treat when you’re feeling a little lazy and almost make great gifts!  (A new teacher perhaps…)