Applejack's Jellied Apple Cookies

Hey Ponies Paris Baguette Here With today's Recipe!!

Ingredients:

• Butter (1 cup)
• Cooking Oil (1 cup)
• Granulated Sugar (1 cup)
• Powdered Sugar (1 cup)
• Vanilla (1 cup)
• Eggs (2)
• Baking Soda (1 Tsp.)
• Flour (4 cups)
• Salt (1 Tsp.)
• Cream of Tartar (1 Tsp.)

Garnishing:

• Orange sprinkles
• Apple Jelly

Step 1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. (In case you didn’t already know, preheating is very important, as you might over or undercook your noms if you don’t have the temperature juuust right!)

Step 2. Cream the first four ingredients in a large mixing bowl.

Step 3. Add vanilla and eggs to creamed mixture.

Step 4. Sift the last four ingredients (not the garnishings, silly!) and stir into the mixture. Blend gently. Remember, we’re making cookies, not cake, so be careful not to blend ‘em too much! You want dough, not batter.

Step 5. Roll the dough into small balls and place onto parchment paper. Flatten them down very slightly with what you humans call your “thumbs” and sprinkle a liberal amount of orange sprinklins’ onto the dough.

Step 6. Press (in the immortal words of Miss rarity) gently, please with the palm of your hand until the edges are slightly thinner than the middle. This will make for a crispy edge and a fluffy, moist middle.

Step 7. Press your “thumb” gently onto the middle of the cookies. Make sure it’s a shallow hole that won’t go through the cookie… Just a slight indentation.

Step 8. Spoon you some apple jelly goodness onto those cookies and throw ‘em in the oven for 8 minutes. Check and see if they’ve gotten slightly golden on the edges. If not, keep them in for a maximum of 3 minutes. After that, you’re done!

After step 4, the recipe becomes pretty open for a couple different possibilities. If you want to store the dough for use at a later time (Maybe grab some friends and finish them up together, and viola! Friendship cookies!), roll the dough into a long tube-like shape on top of some cellophane. Roll it up, seal it off, and store it for not more than 3 days. 

The other option is, if you’re not down with patting the cookies with your hand and wanna’ do it the old school way, dip a flat bottomed cup in water (or spray lightly with cooking oil) and then into sugar, and use that to press the cookies down. I prefer using my palms, as it keeps the inside of the cookie all thick and yummy, but if you like crunchity crispity cookies, then do it your way!

Remember, post pictures if you make them and suggest and request anything you’d like!

Bonus Recipe For Punch

Hi ponies Paris Baguette here with the weekly bonus recipe Also Known as:

Ingredients:

• Grape juice concentrate (1 can)
• Ginger ale (1 2 liter bottle)
• Lemon (1)
• Strawberries (About 10)
• Raspberries (Small box, about 15 or so)

This is another one of those “Do it as you see fit” kinds of processes. Combine the (mostly thawed) grape juice concentrate with the ginger ale in a big ‘ol party punch bowl. Cut the strawberries into thin little slices and throw ‘em into the bowl, and mush the raspberries and do the same. Cut the lemon in half, take out the seeds, and squeeze the juice into the bowl. Cut the other half again twice and put the lemon slices into the bowl as well. Serve chilled and make the party punchified!!!

OPTIONAL: For the Berry Punch alternative, if you’d like to get you’re drinky-drink on, substitute about half the bottle of ginger ale with either a plum sake or blackberry merlot. I tried both at the party and they’re both deeeelicious!

Big thanks to http://cookingismagic.tumblr.com for the great recipes

Apple Cupcakes!!

Hey ponies its Paris Baguette here with a new recipe!! it also comes with a recipe for icing!!

Ingredients

• Eggs (2)
• Vegetable oil (1/2 Cup)
• Cinnamon applesauce (1/2 Cup)
• White sugar (2 Cups)
• Ground cinnamon (1 and 1/2 Tsp.)
• Salt (1/2 Tsp.)
• Vanilla extract (1 Tsp.)
• All-purpose flour (2 Cups)
• Baking soda (1 Tsp.)
• Apples (4 Cups, peeled & cored & finely diced)
• Garnishing: 2 Red OR Green apples

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Remember, preheating is essential for a well cooked cake!
2. In a mixing bowl, the beat oil and eggs with an electric mixer until creamy. Add the sugar and vanilla and beat well.
3. Combine the applesauce, flour, salt, baking soda, and ground cinnamon together in a bowl. Slowly add this mixture to the egg mixture and mix until combined. The batter will be very thick. Fold in the apples by hand using a wooden spoon. Put ‘er in your cupcake cups and tap the sides to release any air bubbles.
4. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 15-20 minutes. Check them after the first 10 minutes and once every 5 minutes after until the middle springs back at your finger ever so slightly. They should be crunchy looking and caramelized on top.

For the frosting, you’ll need a couple of special ingredients you should be able to find in any grocery store, mostly in the baking section. There are so many different frosting types out there, this is just the type I made on a whim (and also because I was running out of time with a bunch of hungry party guests ganging up in the kitchen!)

Ingredients:

• Shortening (1 cup)
• Vanilla flavoring (1/2 Tsp.)
• Almond flavoring (1/4 Tsp.)
• Butter flavoring (1/4 Tsp.)
• Red OR Green food coloring (Correspond it with the color of your garnishing apples!)
• Water (About 9 Tsp.)
• Confectioner’s sugar (About 1/2 of a bag or 1 lb.)
• Meringue powder (1 Tbs.)
• Apple pie spice (Usually you can go to a local spice shop and find phenomenal spices premixed. I used just under four small pinches)
• A bit of salt, just a pinch!

Thanks for your tolerance ponies!!

Gemstone Cupcakes!!!

Hi Ponies it's Lemon Tart Here with a cool new recipe for you to try
Today's recipe is Gemstone Cupcakes

What you need:

1 cup white sugar

1/2 cup butter

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 cup milk

Method:

1.     Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x9 inch pan or line a muffin pan with paper liners. 

2.     In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Finally stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pan. 

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. For cupcakes, bake 20 to 25 minutes.

Thanks for your tolerances ponies!