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Grape Cake

Grapes + Cake = Delicious

This yummy grape cake is adapted from a recipe in Food Network Magazine (great resource for super easy recipes). The grapes cooked in the honey come out amazing. It is best to use grapes at their peak, rather than when they are getting mushy. You want them to hold up in the boiling mixture.

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 Grape Cake
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Dessert
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings
slices
Ingredients
  • 1 box yellow cake mix eggs and oil per box
  • 2 cups seedless red grapes sliced in half (you can mix 'n' match red and green but don't use all green)
  • 1/2 c honey
  • 1 1/2 tbsp candied ginger cut into small chunks
Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Dessert
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings
slices
Ingredients
  • 1 box yellow cake mix eggs and oil per box
  • 2 cups seedless red grapes sliced in half (you can mix 'n' match red and green but don't use all green)
  • 1/2 c honey
  • 1 1/2 tbsp candied ginger cut into small chunks
Instructions
  1. Bake cake per directions on box. If you have time, make cake from scratch. You can do either cake rounds or a sheet cake.
  2. For the grape mixture: boil the honey about 3 minutes until it is dark and thickened.
  3. Remove from heat. Add the ginger and grapes, stir to coat. We let this sit overnight. The grapes give up some moisture and the honey loses some of its overwhelming sticky sweetness. Your choice- serve immediately or wait it out!
    Cooked grapes in a bowl.
  4. Slice cake and drizzle grapes and honey over the top, sides and on the plate. Serves 16 with 2 cake rounds.
Recipe Notes

Grape cake can be served for a light dessert in the summer. Of course, we serve it for breakfast!

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Fabulous Fruity Crisp

Fall is in the air - pick some apples and pears and enjoy this crisp for dessert!

You’ll want the Fabulous Fruity Crisp for all sorts of gatherings - summer cookouts, fall tailgating, toasty winter dessert, springtime brunch. It’s a treat that spans the seasons! This crisp works best with apples, pears, peaches, nectarines and berries. You can use up your frozen berries, the ones you aren’t throwing in the blender for smoothies.

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 Fabulous Fruity Crisp
A baked treat that can be assembled within 24 hours of baking.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Dessert
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Servings
servings
Ingredients
  • 7 tbsps COLD butter
  • 1/2 c flour
  • 1 c oatmeal uncooked
  • 1 c firmly packed brown sugar light or dark
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 4 c fruit peeled, pitted & chopped into bite size pieces (mix and match the fruit!) Good choices: apples, pears, nectarines, plums, peaches
  • 1/2 c sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 c blueberries or blackberries
  • whipped cream
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Dessert
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Servings
servings
Ingredients
  • 7 tbsps COLD butter
  • 1/2 c flour
  • 1 c oatmeal uncooked
  • 1 c firmly packed brown sugar light or dark
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 4 c fruit peeled, pitted & chopped into bite size pieces (mix and match the fruit!) Good choices: apples, pears, nectarines, plums, peaches
  • 1/2 c sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 c blueberries or blackberries
  • whipped cream
Instructions
  1. Butter a 9x13 baking dish. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Mix 4 cups of fruit with 1/2 c sugar and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract, let stand.
  3. In separate bowl, mix flour, oatmeal, brown sugar, cinnamon.
  4. Pour fruit mixture into greased baking dish, top with blueberries or blackberries, spread out evenly in dish. Top with oatmeal mixture, spread out evenly over fruit. (If the oatmeal mixture doesn't cover the surface, sprinkle a little more over the top.) Cut butter into small chunks and place evenly over surface of oatmeal mixture.
  5. Bake for 45 minutes, until bubbly. You can cover with tin foil for the first 30 minutes to retain moisture, then uncover for last 15 minutes.
Recipe Notes

You can make this the night before and cook in the morning.

If you use a smaller baking dish, put a cookie sheet under the dish so it doesn't bubble over onto the oven.

Scoop out with a big spoon into a dessert bowl and put whipped cream on top for a special treat.

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