Baked Apples

The perfect Fall dessert.

4 apples
4 tbsp margarine or unsalted butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp all spice
1/4 tsp cloves
1/4 cup raisins (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray 8 x 8 square cooking pan with Pam cooking spray.
Remove apple cores without cutting apples into pieces (use an apple corer if available).
Spread each apple core hole with 1 tablespoon of margarine and place in pan.
Mix brown sugar and spices, then equally sprinkle into each apple core hole. 
Sprinkle in raisins, if you are using them.
Bake for 35 minutes, pull pan out, and baste apples with juice.
Once basted, return pan into the over for another 10 to 15 minutes depending on how soft you want the apples.

Ginger Crinkle Cookies

Have you ever had the Starbucks Ginger Molasses cookie before? This recipe makes cookies even better than those! I love them soft, but my dad prefers them crunchy.
When I make these, they tend to go fast! They are VERY easy to make!

1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup molasses
2 Tbsp dark corn syrup
1 egg
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp salt 

Bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes depending on size and whether you want them crunchy or soft (crunchy in longer and look darker; soft in shorter and lighter brown in color).
 

Cream softened butter with sugar until combined.

Put butter and sugar into a Large Bowl.

Add egg to sugar and butter mixture.
Mix until combined.

Add Molasses and corn syrup and mix.

Add the dry ingredients and mix.

Roll dough into balls and roll into a bowl of sugar.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet when balls are covered in sugar.