We all know apple-picking is quintessential, Wisconsin fall. Super love, right? This family paired a lovely apple-picking family photography session with a gorgeous, in-home family documentary session making an autumn dessert staple: Jewish Apple Cake. The whole crew gets to work. Eleanor peels apples.
David peels apples, Dot plays with naked Barbie. Naked Barbie is family member at this point. Terry hands over the whisk.
David expertly slices apples. See what I mean about Naked Barbie? All six together in the kitchen!
Official Jewish Apple Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 apples – peeled, cored and sliced
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 5 teaspoons white sugar
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour one 10 inch tube pan. Combine the ground cinnamon and 5 teaspoons of the sugar together and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking powder and 2 cups of the sugar. Stir in the vegetable oil, beaten eggs, orange juice and vanilla. Mix well.
- Pour 1/2 of the batter into the prepared pan. Top with 1/2 of the sliced apples and sprinkle with 1/2 of the cinnamon sugar mixture. Pour the remaining batter over the top and layer the remaining sliced apples and cinnamon sugar.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 70 to 90 minutes.
Above: everyone lean to the right. You too, Naked Barbie. Testing, testing, testing. Happy Fall, Happy Baking, Happy Eating!
xo,
Jen
“There are simply not enough stars in the galaxy to express how much I love Jen’s work! She has an incredible nack for capturing personalities in her images. I look at the photos she has taken of my four kids and see not only a fleeting moment in time, but also a distillation of each of their most unique characteristics. Having Jen document these moments has become a yearly investment for our family. We have ended sessions with our four kids, sometimes less than cooperative, mostly running in different directions, and wondered how she could have possibly gotten a good shot, only to find out a few weeks later that she has spun gold!”
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