Apple adventures

The other night my hubby and I were invited over to my parents house for a healthy bowl of squash soup, made from a wonderful squash we picked up at the farmers market earlier in the week!
My dad worked away in the kitchen stewing up this earthy delight full of other garden goodies such as; carrots, celery, potatoes, onions, garlic, apples and orange all mixed together with herbs and spices.
Naturally, my first response to the invitation was; "can i bring anything? how about dessert?". I always tend to offer up dessert or get volunteered for it!
This time i had an ulterior motive for jumping at the chance to bring dessert. I had previously seen a recipe on Kitchen Parade for an Estonian Apple Cake that looked irresistible. I figured "that looks light enough for an after dinner treat but substantial enough for a true dessert."
Lucky for me i had also picked up some beautiful apples at the farmers market that were just asking to be used for this purpose!
So i ran home after work and whipped it up! this was possibly the easiest cake i have ever made, my only set back was cutting up the apples.
The directions are to the point, the ingredients are few and the difficulty is lack-there-of.
I didn't have milk on hand, but i did have some soy milk, to the best of my knowledge it didn't change the consistency at all and no one seemed to make note of it.
The batter came out really thick, so i was a little nervous that it was going to be super dense and heavy.
(Confession: I usually make a little sampler of whatever i am making for my hubby; aka: official taste tester to try before i unleash my goodies on anyone!)
This time i had to go based on chance, i pulled it out of the oven, made a make shift carrying case for it and we were out the door!
Later that evening we dished it up and it was surprisingly light and fluffy in texture, not to heavy or dense. The creme anglaise is something that was worth the extra couple minutes it took to make it, it gave it that little something extra!
All in all (even with out my official taste tester giving it the seal of approval) it was really good!
Squash and apples... very October!