Chewy Drizzled Cinnamon Chip Cookies

Continuing right along on my Cinnamon Chip journey, I present Chewy Drizzled Cinnamon Chip Cookies. You will find the recipe on the Hershey Kitchen website. These cookies are as tasty as they look. The cinnamon chips are melted with a bit of shortening to make the frosting that is drizzled on the top. I've never had anything quite like them before. They look especially nice on our Snowflake Cookie Platter in the Snowflake Cookie Basket.

December is the only month when you can order the beautiful Hershey's Kiss Basket and the first Woven Traditions Chocolate Brown Pottery 8" x 8" Baking Dish! What a perfect gift for the chocolate lovers in your life! I have two sets on hand for last minute shoppers!

I also have a limited number of $10 Holiday Dollar coupons to apply to your order to help you SAVE! Call me or email. I am open for business during the holidays except for Dec 24th and 25th.

Easy Cinnamon Bread

I am a devotee of cinnamon. If I can add cinnamon to a recipe I will do it. So when I found this recipe for Easy Cinnamon Bread I knew I had to make it for the holidays. To quote the recipe: "This bread is a cross between a typical baking powder-leavened quick bread, and a yeast bread. The result: a cinnamon coffeecake-tasting loaf that's wonderful served plain, and is incredible toasted."

You will need both yeast and baking powder and the rising time is about an hour. I mixed it in my wonderful Kitchen-Aid standing mixer (an appliance I bought when we moved here two years ago and would not want to be without). To find the recipe, go to the King Arthur site and search for Easy Cinnamon Bread. I'm sure the Cinnamon Chips from King Arthur are wonderful but they are also a bit pricey. I looked all over for Hershey Cinnamon Chips and finally found them at Schnucks in Peoria (2 bags for $4.00). Hopefully they are just a seasonal item because I could see myself getting obsessed with them and they are full of fat. Clearly this bread is for special-occasions.

The best yeast I have ever used in 35 years of bread baking is SAF, which I have purchased from King Arthur. You can find it in Peoria at GFC.

I baked it in my Woven Traditions Loaf Dish. It was not baked through at 40 min so I baked it for an extra 10 min. Enjoy!

Next Recipe: Chewy Cinnamon Chip Cookies.

Easy Microwave Apple Cake

Hurry on over to the Factory Store online www.longaberger.com/paula to purchase the beautiful Woven Traditions Fluted Cake Pans just 2/$26!

Available while supplies last!

I enjoy making this cake in the microwave. It is quick, easy, delicious, and relatively lowfat. What more could a person ask for? Oh, and the pan cleans up like a dream!

Longaberger Products:

• Large Tip and Mix Bowl
• Woven Traditions Fluted Cake Pan
• Woven Traditions Dinner Plate
  

Recipe

• 1 box Spice Cake Mix (if you can't find spice mix use yellow cake mix and add cinnamon, etc.)
• 3 eggs
• 1 can Apple Pie Filling (21 oz)
• 1/2 cup applesauce

In Large Tip and Mix Bowl, mix the dry cake mix, eggs, apple pie filling, and applesauce until moist. Grease pan (I use spray such as Pam.) Pour mixture into the microwave safe Woven Traditions Fluted Cake Pan. Place in microwave and bake on high for 12 minutes. Remove from microwave and cover Fluted Cake Pan with Woven Traditions Dinner Plate (this finishes the cooking process). Let cool slightly. Turn the cake over onto the Woven Traditions Dinner Plate and carefully remove Fluted Cake Pan. Delicious with whipped topping or ice cream.

Variations: (I have not tried these. Let me know if you do.)

• Chocolate cake mix with cherry pie filling
• Spice Cake mix with pumpkin pie filling

Warning: Take out about 1 and 1/2 cups of batter before baking or you will have a little cake volcano in the microwave. That happened the first time I baked the cake. So for my Open House in October I decided to be extra clever and bake a small cake in a Soup and Salad Bowl with the extra batter. That would have worked fine except I did not cut down the baking time enough and suddenly smelled smoke which was coming out of the microwave! The cake didn't LOOK that burnt because the burned part was mostly on the bottom. What a fiasco. I've scrubbed the microwave numerous times, boiled vinegar in it, baking soda, you name it and it still smells like smoke. My husband's remark was, "I'm glad I didn't do it!"

Open House!

I've been considering Basket Blogging for a long time now and finally decided to take the plunge. My Knitting Blog has been going now for over 2 years so this is a natural branching out. The Basket Blog is a place for me to share my days with Longaberger Baskets, Pottery, Wrought Iron, and our other wonderful products. I'm excited to share these ideas with you! I've been in business for over 25 years now and am so grateful that I am still passionate about what I do.

Today I'm getting ready for my Open House on Wednesday August 26th! You are invited! The time is 4 to 8 PM. I will leave most everything set up for another day or two in case you can't make it on that day. Just call me or email to set up a time to drop by.

The best deals right now are:

• Free Wrought Iron Black Cat ($30 value) with purchase of either Black Cat Bundle (with or without lid).
• $20 off NEW Fancy Pie Basket. Just $42 for this basket which is the very first to replicate J.W. Longaberger's Fancy Baskets with woven decorative trim. Just beautiful and just as practical!
• Last chance to purchase Horizon of Hope Baskets, Pink Pie Plate, Pink Measuring Cup


• Many retiring products--last chance on these also!
  
• Be a show Hostess and receive a FREE travel Mug in addition to all your other generous hostess benefits. Ask me for details!

and everyone's favorite: Paula's Attic Sale!

Many samples and online specials stashes just for you. You will find many bargains here! Plenty for everyone! If the stash gets low "there is more where that came from". Also feel free to buy samples off my tables (except for Preview Products).

And if all this isn't enough...check out the Factory Store Online today, August 25th, for this fantastic sale! Just go to my website www.longaberger.com/paula and then in the left sidebar under Factory Store!

Here's a great recipe for the Fluted Cake Pan

Microwave Apple Pie Cake

• Longaberger Products
• Large Tip and Mix Bowl
• Woven Traditions Fluted Cake Pan
• Woven Traditions Dinner Plate

1 box Yellow Cake Mix

3 eggs

1 can Apple Pie Filling

1/2 Cup applesauce

In Large Tip and Mix Bowl, mix the dry cake mix, eggs, applie pie filling and applesauce until moist. Pour the mixture into the microwave-safe Woven Traditions Fluted Cake Pan. Place in microwave and bake on high for 12 minutes. Remove from microwave and cover Fluted Cake Pan with WT Dinner Place (this finishes the cooking process). Turn the cake over onto the WT Dinner Plate and remove Fluted Cake Pan for a delicious dessert. Great with vanilla ice cream or whipped topping.

Variations:

• Chocolate cake mix with cherry pie filling
• Spice Cake mix with pumpkin pie filling