GOOD TASTES
APPLE SEASON STARTS…NOW! WRITTEN BY GINA REARDON / PHOTO BY MELANIE MCDOWELL
One of the first family adventures I had when moving to Kansas City in my early teens was apple picking at Stephenson’s Apple Orchard in Raytown, Missouri. We had the most fun climbing trees to pick the ripe fruit from the middle and top branches and filling baskets of apples for school lunches, homemade applesauce and pies, and even apple butter. I still have fond food memories of the apple fritters served with apple butter at the Stephenson’s Family Restaurant. Lucky for us, these same experiences are plentiful at orchards in Platte City and Weston, Missouri and other local orchards in Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri. Lately I’ve been looking for an excuse to make one of my favorites, a New York Style Crumb Cake with Apples. This coffee cake is everything you want it to be: moist and tender, with cinnamon crumble topping and the welcome surprise of fresh apples tucked inside. Try this at your next weekend brunch, or meet me at the next KC Bake Sale for No Kid Hungry on Saturday, Oct. 30. I might just have one for you there.
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SIMPLYkc MAGAZINE
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SEPTEMBER 2021
