It’s October which means apple season. The apples are in full flow – pictured here a couple of giant Howgate Wonders, with a sensibly sized Sunset for scale
October is also birthday season at Reclaiming Paradise which means the apples are put to good use in a variety of cakes. My mother’s is the first birthday of the month, so I used these monsters to make a chocolate apple cake – recipe here . Since she was 85, candles seemed excessive, but I wanted to decorate it with something special. This handful of raspberries, fresh from the garden, seemed the best thing – served with the posh teacups and side plates for a small family gathering:
It went down rather well.
Meanwhile we had another couple of Sunsets straight off the tree at lunchtime in the garden today:
And we watched the first of the autumn geese flying overhead.
Autumn has arrived.
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Good looking apples. I expect we saw those geese too.
I love it when the geese fly over
Like the apples, the geese are a seasonal treat.
I’ve bookmarked the chocolate apple cake recipe.
Isn’t autumn such a wonderful time!
Yes . I dread summer being over and then autumn arrives, complete with apples and geese to cheer us up
😁
How beautiful! I’m excited to have lots of apple pie, applesauce, and apple butter. Do you have any big plans for yours? 🙂
A lot of apple cakes! And stewed apples for breakfast