Apple Pie with Oat Streusel

This could easily be called The Great Deflating Pie.  That's probably a good thing. Apples get soft when they get baked, so when the filling first gets added to the crust, it is an eye-popping  mountain of apple. While baking, the apple softens, the voids between slices are filled and the mountain of apple lowers into an even, dense, layer of apple goodness (with some golden brown sugar, cinnamon and allspice mixed in).

Oats are rolled into the outside of the crust and the topping (thankfully tolerant of all of these volume shifts) is a streusel of golden brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice, butter and oats.

It's a wholesome, homey comfort dessert perfect for this time of the year.

Peanut-Pecan Butter and Oatmeal Cookies

Cookies are great!  You know you want something sweet but getting an entire slice of cake or pie sounds like too much. You'll just eat one cookie. Nevermind the fact that one cookies become two, then three, then... well nevermind. Either way, they're delicious and you want some.

Today we have peanut-pecan butter and oatmeal cookies. I basically made peanut pecan butter by mixing ground toasted pecans into the peanut butter. Add oats, some brown sugar and vanilla and we've got a very yummy little cookie!