Fall Favorites

Fall is my absolute favorite season! I get to eat my favorite food, smell my favorite smells, and celebrate my birthday! Halloween is a fun part of fall too. Yesterday I was at target and I saw a mom buying Halloween decorations for her house and a full-size skeleton for her kids. The skeleton was a little creepy but, it’s fun to see how festive and creative people get.  Now, everywhere I look there are pumpkins. Pumpkins are the best part of it all. You can paint them, eat them, make them into lanterns, and put them on your front step for everyone see. Carving pumpkins is great but, so is eating them! It’s never too early to break out the autumn cooking recipes!

My fall favorites include apple cider, apple pie, pumpkin pie and pumpkin bars. Apple cider is such a great drink. It sounds gross to think about because it is basically just warmed up apple juice but, it’s just so good. Along with apple cider is apple pie. There are so many pies but apple pie is one of my top favorites. The best apple pie would have to be the homemade pie my old school made. We had a fundraiser every October and we made homemade apple pies and berry pies. The parents would come every day and cut the apples, make the crumb topping and pack them up into white boxes. The berry pies were good but they didn’t even compare to the apple pies. To this day I’ve never had a better apple pie than those ones.

Pumpkin pie is great but, nothing beats my mom’s pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting. They’re vegan but I think they taste better than any other pumpkin bar out there. The main difference is the cream cheese frosting. She just uses a vegan brand of cream cheese and it doesn’t taste weird at all. For anyone trying to go vegan this is a great and easy dessert to make. We even brought it to a potluck and won first place for desserts! Nobody knew it was vegan until after we won!