Monday, September 16, 2013

Gooseberry Patch Review and Giveaway: "Hometown Harvest"


 
It's almost here! My favorite time of the year...fall. Fall is not yet in the air here in Georgia.  We've had a hot September. Even with the warm weather, I still get in the mood for fall with one of my other favorites, a Gooseberry Patch cookbook. Hometown Harvest is the newest cookbook in Gooseberry Patch's fall cookbook line. If you're like me and have all of the other fall editions, you'll want to add this one to your collection.
 
Around this time every year, I start yearning for those crisp fall mornings which are few and far between here in my area. I can easily get into the fall spirit by curling up on the couch with my Gooseberry Patch fall cookbooks and read the recipes and harvest memories while planning my own adventures in my area: fall festivals, hayrides, and corn mazes.
 
Just reading through the chapter titles makes my mouth water for pumpkin baked goods: Hometown Pancake Breakfast, Church Social Soup Supper, Thanksgiving Dinner to Remember, Game Day Get-Together, Pumpkin Patch Sweets and Slow-Cooker Potluck Pleasers. The cookbook is filled with every imaginable form of apples, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, and other seasonal ingredients.
 
I chose to highlight my very favorite fall flavor, apples, in the recipe featured here, Fresh Apple Pound Cake.
 

Fresh Apple Pound Cake

Fresh Apple Pound Cake
Submitted by Theresia King
Knoxville, TN
 
1-1/4 c. oil
2 c. sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
3 c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
3 apples, peeled, cored and diced
1 c. chopped pecans
 
Combine oil, sugar and eggs in a bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 3 minutes; beat in vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; mix well. Add flour mixture to oil mixture. Beat well; fold in apples and pecans. Pour batter into a greased 12" Bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour and 20 minutes, or until a toothpick tests done. Cool for several minutes; turn cake out of pan. Serves 16.
 

 
Are you ready to welcome fall into your home? Are you ready to welcome this cookbook into your home? In addition to the review copy I received from Gooseberry Patch, I also received a copy of the cookbook to give away to one of my readers. Enter in the widget below. Please allow a few moments for the widget to load.
 
Good Luck and Happy Harvest!
 
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82 comments:

  1. Pumpkin! And apples of course you can do so much with both of them. Terri C

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  2. Yummy, your cake looks delicious! Fall is the best for seasonal baking, in my opinion. ;) No doubt, pumpkin is the top flavor of choice...with perhaps cinnamon and gingerbread being second and third place. :)

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  3. Two of my favorites are apple and pumpkin, but I think the one food I Iook forward to most is butternut squash. Whether it's roasted, mashed or puréed in a soup, I just can't get enough of it!

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  4. My favorites are apple and cinnamon...so I think I'm going to like that pound cake!

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  5. In our home it is a tie between pumpkin and apple.

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  6. This sounds so good. I love the fact that it is cooked in a slow cooker. Makes meal getting easy if you have a busy day, no matter who you are. Thanks for sharing.

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  7. Love pumpkin bread, cookies and bars for fall!

    Monica

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  8. Anything apple, pumpkin, and cinnamon:) This recipe looks delicious!

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  9. My fav is apples in the fall . had some nice people pick and share with me last night !!! I LOVE fall !!!

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  10. Apples are my favorite for fall. I love to go apple picking and enjoy the beautiful colored fall leaves.

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  11. Apple? or Pumpkin?

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  12. This looks absolutely delicious!

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  13. Pumpkin! The glorious pumpkin....and apples....nutmeg....pie spice...cinnamon....butternut squash
    Yep, I'm so ready for all things Fall!
    -- Nichole

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  14. Fall to me is anything apple, cinnamon, pumpkin and spice.

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  15. Pumpkin and apple are my favorite fall flavors.

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  16. Apples, cinnamon, pears and pumpkin are all fall favorites!

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  17. Pretty much my recipe for Jewish apple cake, Minus the pecans, which would be a welcomed addition.
    Jewish Apple Cake
    3 cups of Flour
    1/2 tsp salt
    2 1/2 tsp baking powder
    2 cups sugar
    1 cup oil (i use olive or coconut oil-softened)
    4 eggs, beaten
    1/4 cup orange juice
    2-3 tsp vanilla
    3-4 apples (peeled, cored and sliced)
    2 TBL sugar
    2tsp cinnamon

    @350 for 70-90 mins
    I mix the 2 TBL of sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon sprinkle half on the apples, sprinkle a part of the rest of sugar/cinnamon mix in the already pre-greased bundt cake pan (I use flour Pam (or similar spray) then layer apples, batter, apples,sprinkle sugar cin mixture, batter, apples, and finish with the rest of the sugar/cin mix.

    pretty close

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  18. When it comes to fall flavors, two instantly come to mind, apple and pumpkin accented with cinnamon and spice. Yummmmm!

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  19. I had a recipe for Fresh Apple Cake years ago, but lost it along the way. This sounds just like it. I will be making it again soon. Thanks for sharing.

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  20. I love fall and cooking pumpkin and apple pound cake! The house smells so good and inviting!

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  21. Anything apple!

    Janice jet5657@yahoo.com

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  22. This cake looks wonderful!! I will have to try making it. I have an old recipe of my mom's that I make called Apple Harvest Cake. It is a very moist cake. Donna d.brookmyer@yahoo.com

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  23. I've made a variation on this for years, and it is always popular with family and whatever function I have taken it to. Warmed or not, plain or dressed with a drizzle or whipped cream, it's always a pleaser!

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  24. Apple for my grandson and pumpkin for me

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  25. Favorite fall ingredient is definitely fresh apples from the orchard!! :)

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  26. I love apples
    thanks for the giveaway
    aunteegem@yahoo.com

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  27. love apples
    sndaily@hotmail.com

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  28. Usually when you think of Fall you think of all the Apple and Pumpkin recipes you have tucked away.....I reach for the Pumpkin first!

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  29. Love apple cake...would love to make an apple pound cake!

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  30. I love the flavors of apples and cinnamon.

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  31. Mmmmm, Fall, the Best season for cooking :)

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  32. Mmmm, Fall, the Best season for cooking :)

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  33. Pumpkin...but apples and cranberries are up there pretty high on the list, too!

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  34. There's so many great flavors to chose from! But of course the stand-by is pumpkin! Or apple!

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  35. Pumpkin - love pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread etc.

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  36. I love Fall. Cooking with Pumpkin, yummm!

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  37. pumpkin
    rita.navarre@yahoo.com

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  38. It's a toss between apples and pumpkin. I love them both!

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  39. My favorite food in the fall is Sweet Potatoes.

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  40. I would LOVE to add this fall cookbook to my collection! Fall is my favorite time to cook and bake. Apples, pumpkins, cinnamon...mmm! I have a new recipe of maple oat scones with maple cinnamon glaze in the oven right now. :-) Thanks for hosting the contest Kim!

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  41. PUMPKIN anything! :)

    Nikki

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  42. My favorite fall flavor/ingredients is pumpkin!

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  43. Fall is the smell of hay riding on the haywagon...smell of marshmellows roasting on the fire...enjoying our family & especially our grandkids! Love Fall colors, pumpkins and fresh cool air....

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  44. Apple. I love homemade apple cakes and baked Apples

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  45. I don't know if I can pick just one favorite fall flavor.....this year I'm really loving maple. But, pumpkin has been my fave for years....

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  46. Pumpkin or cinnamon apples

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  47. pumpkin and apples!!! Love fall!!

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  48. I wait every year for fall and to eat my favorite thing to eat...a red candy apple, so that would be the juicy fall apples.

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  49. Pumpkin & apples..LOVE 'em!

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  50. Apples are my favorite ingredient to use

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  51. Fall means Thanksgiving and I love that meal the most...so turkey and my mom's chestnut filling along with her delicious sweets!

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  52. I love fall and fall cooking. So hard to choose just one favorite fall ingredient but I love fall greens so I'll go with those but sweet potatoes, apples, and pumpkin are favorites too.

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  53. Apples and cinnamon.

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    1. I would have to say apple in this house although we do love pumpkin as well. Harvest time is truly the best. Hard to pick just one.

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  54. Pumpkin, pumpkin, and pumpkin!

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  55. My favorite fall flavor is anything with apple in it.

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  56. pumpkin,apple, sweet potato, cinnamon, nutmeg!

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  57. apples and pumpkin and any combination of them

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  58. Pumpkin of course :) but my kids love Apple :)

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  59. I'm ready, it's great if we can add a pressure cooker.

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  60. Apple Pound Cake is the best cake that i have eaten.
    Lisa Ann@BestFoodMom.com

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