Apple Crumb Cake

Sometimes you gotta cheat a little. Thanks to a certain box of yellow butter cake mix, a green apple and my crumb topping.

Apple Yogurt Muffins

Cream Cheese anyone?

I love bagels and cream cheese. I'm from Jersey, it is required.  Cream cheese has now migrated from one of my favorite breakfasts to my favorite desserts.  I made two things tonight for the last of our holiday parties.  Espresso Cheesecake Brownies again since Hubs requested them and a new one Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough DIP. Yes Dip. O-MY-GAWD. I am in-love.

New Year's Day Eve

A friend posted, "Sometimes you just have to bake" this was mere moments after I pulled this outta the oven.  If only we lived closer to share our treats...
Hubs & I had a long hard new year's day of doing absolutely nothing.  I found some amazingly huge Granny Smiths a few days prior and threw together a super quick dessert that we enjoyed after the girls hit the sack [finally.]
I made a batch of Crumb Topping which really covers a 13x9 but these little pyrex bowls are perfect for one large Granny Smith Apple cut up and shared between the two of us.  So I put the rest of the crumb topping in the fridge for later use.  Darn we'll have to indulge more during the week!
After I threw this in the oven, we started the girls bedtime rituals. It was ready to enjoy by the time the girls were all snuggled up for the night.  It didn't even matter that we ate devoured while watching the rest of Winnie the Pooh for the hundredth time, it was SO good.   Hubs and I need more Us-time like this, maybe we'll remember to throw in a PG-13 movie next time! ha.