Apple Pie Afternoon

Welcome to the past 2 hours of my day...worth every minute.

Apples, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg (aka, fabulousness!)

Homemade 1/2 wheat flour pie crust (aka, a shitload of work!)

Ready for the oven, with an indiscernable ghost cutout to let steam escape...

Done!  With only minimal damage to my oven in the form of sugary apple juice that spilled into the bottom of it...which will provide a nice cloud of black smoke next time I run the oven.  Guess I needed a bigger ghost.  Ta-Da!

The one in which I am bested by onions.

Stockpiling the freezer today...so in case you were curious as to what a gallon of red onions look like, here you go.  And yes, my eyes and sinuses were on fire for an hour, and my kitchen still reeks of an onion-y hell.

Coffee Cake Sugar-splosion

Holy sweetness.  Finally tried a recipe for one-dish coffee cake last weekend that I've had stashed away for years...it's a yeast cake (and you all know my struggles with the yeasty arts), but super simple (mama likey).
It turned out just fine...just way, way too sweet (and you all know that means it's a buttload of sugar, considering my epic sweet tooth...it was so sweet you couldn't even taste the cake-y part.  Sad.).  If I make it again I would cut the amount of cinnamon-brown sugar topping and powdered-sugar icing down by half and add nuts for some crunch.

That's a whole lot of sugar right there folks.

Finished product = diabetic coma!