Apple butter ideas?!
Answers: I bought a large jar of apple butter a while back. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but now it just isn't getting eaten and I hate waste. Does anyone have any ideas how I can use it up, like in a bread recipe or something?
Here's a couple of sites for recipes using apple butter.
http://www.baumanfamily.com/recipes.shtm...
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?fo...
And here's my recipe for a cake using apple butter.
A Spicy Apple Butter Cake.
2 1/2 cups cake flour (all-purpose flour works too)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground allspice berries (not the allspice mix)
1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup milk
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup granulated sugar
4 eggs
1 cup apple butter
Generously grease and flour bottoms of three 8-inch layer cake pans. Put flour, baking soda, salt, and spices into a bowl and stir until well blended.
Measure milk into a 2-cup measure; add lemon juice and stir.
In a mixing bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Spoon in dry ingredients in about 2 additions, alternating with the soured milk. Beat on low speed just until blended. Stir in the apple butter and pour into pans. Bake in preheated 350°F oven for 30 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly touched with finger.
Cool in pans on racks for 5 minutes. Loosen sides with a knife; turn out onto racks. Cool layers completely.
Put layers together with cream cheese frosting or a butter frosting, then frost sides and top. Garnish with walnuts or pecans, if desired. My preference is the cream cheese frosting w/ chopped pecans stirred into the frosting.
I always eating it with english muffin.