Fall Recipes and Graphics by Collette Gillaspie

These are just a few of my all-time favorite fall recipes—the game changers. Thanksgiving could not come sooner!

Great Grandma Collette’s Applesauce Spice Cake with Caramel Frosting

Applesauce Spice Cake Ingredients:

2 ½ cups flour

2 cups sugar

1 ½ teaspoons salt

1 ½ teaspoons soda

¼ teaspoon baking powder

¾ teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon cloves

2 ½ teaspoons allspice

1 ½ cups applesauce

½ cup shortening

½ cup water

2 eggs

1 cup raisins

Applesauce Spice Cake Instructions:

Mix all dry ingredients. Add applesauce, shortening, and water; beat for two minutes. Add eggs and beat for two additional minutes. Mix in raisins. Bake at 350 degrees for 55-60 minutes.

Caramel Frosting Ingredients:

½ cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

¼ cup milk

2 cups powdered sugar

Caramel Frosting Instructions:

Melt ½ cup butter, add 1 cup brown sugar. Stir continuously for two minutes. Add ¼ cup milk and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and cool. Add two cups of powdered sugar gradually. Frost cake.

Grandma Marjean’s Sour Cream Apple Pie with Spicy Topping

Sour Cream Apple Pie Ingredients:

2 tablespoons flour

⅛ teaspoon salt

¾ cups sugar

1 egg, unbeaten

1 cup dairy sour cream

1 teaspoon vanilla

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

2 cups diced apples

9-inch pie shell pastry

Sour Cream Apple Pie Instructions:

Sift together flour, salt and sugar; add egg, cream, vanilla and nutmeg. Beat to smooth, thin batter. Stir in apples. Pour into pastry-lined pie pan. Bake in hot oven (400 degrees) for 15 minutes, then in moderate oven (350 degrees) for 30 minutes. Remove from oven.

Spicy Topping Ingredients:

⅓ cup sugar

⅓ cup flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

¼ cup butter or margarine

Spicy Topping Instructions:

Mix well ⅓ cup sugar, ⅓ cup flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and ¼ cup butter or margarine. Sprinkle over pie. Return to hot oven (400 degrees) for 10 minutes to brown.

Gladys’s Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Bars Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

2 cups canned pumpkin

4 eggs

1 cup salad oil

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon vanilla

Pumpkin Bars Instructions:

Mix ingredients in order given. Grease and flour 11-inch by 16-inch (cookie sheet). Bake for 30-35 minutes at 350 degrees. When cooled completely, frost with cream cheese frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:

3 ounces cream cheese

1 stick oleo margarine

1 teaspoon milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups powdered sugar

Cream Cheese Frosting Instructions:

Mix all ingredients together until smooth, and frost cooled bars.