Stormy Friday

I've been busy this morning making a cake to take to Kelly's for this week-end's celebration of Harper's Baby Dedication and Mother's Day!  Kelly's first Mother's Day and my first Mother's Day as a grandmother!  I can't tell you how blessed I am!  

I made a Caramel Apple Cake.  It is a great "traveling" cake and tastes better the older it gets!

I will wait and make the caramel icing when I get to Kelly's house because it is easier to transport.  Plus having caramel sauce all over the car is not great!

I will put the recipe at the end of the post.  A friend at church gave me this recipe years ago and it never fails to be delicious!
We have had storms all over the area this morning.  I thought some of our huge trees were going to fall over!  We spend late yesterday evening (when we actually had a few hours of sunshine......remember sunshine???) cutting more limbs and stacking them up to burn later.

The ice storm of January will probably still be work in July!!  

As the picture above shows, we had a brief shower of hail.  I had to make a picture real quick before it melted and email to hubby at his office so he could see what he missed.  It apparently didn't hail in town.
The hail didn't ruin my little "toadstools" I saw this morning outside in my front flower bed.

They were just everywhere and came up over night.  They were so perfect looking!

Hope you all will have a wonderful Mother's Day week-end.  If you have a Mother, call her and tell her how much she means to you while you have the chance.  You never know what tomorrow will bring.  If you are praying to be a Mother someday, just keep asking the Lord.

Remember Hannah( in 1 Samuel) conceived in "due time" and gave birth to Samuel saying "Because I have asked him of the Lord".

Blessings !

Caramel Apple Cake

1 1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

3 eggs

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 teasp. cinnamon

1/2 teasp. nutmeg

1 teassp. baking soda

1/2 teasp. salt

3 1/2 cups diced peeled apples

1 cup chopped pecans

2 teasp. vanilla

Caramel icing :

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/3 cup light cream 

1/2 cup butter

dash salt

1 cup confectioners' sugar

chopped nuts, optional

In mixing bowl, combine oil and sugars.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each 

addition.  Combine dry ingredients; add to batter and stir well.  Fold in apples, nuts,

and vanilla.  Pour into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.

Bake at 325 degrees for 1 1/2 hours or until cake tests done.  Cool in pan for 10 mins;

remove to wire rack to cool completely.

Heat brown sugar, cream, butter, and salt until sugar is dissolved.  Cool to room temperature.

Beat in confectioners' sugar until smooth; drizzle over cake.  Sprinkle with nuts if desired.

Yield; 12-16 servings.