Apple Pie Breakfast Cakes.
Maybe I should just start a blog about breakfast?
I seem to kindasortamaybe love it.
Which is really odd, because my day to day breakfasts aren’t anything to write home about. Obviously. Since I’m already home.
But I often just throw four or five random ingredients together because all I’m thinking is “omg, I’m so hungry and just need food in my face right this very instant.” I’m definitely not the person that needs to make their breakfast look like a princess puked on it [oh, except these] because seriously? I’ve just gone at least eight hours without food. Give it up. But I guess breakfast is really a thing now, huh?
I totally love dinner too. Actually dinner is my favorite. So bonus points whenever you have breakfast for dinner.
But obviously I’m forgetting about dessert. Rats.
I’m just gonna shut my piehole because I think the only point here is that food is my favorite. Plain and simple. All foods. Except green things. With exceptions for avocados and m&m’s. Skittles too.
And this other weird thing? I really like when my food [such as breakfast] tastes like other things [let’s just say… PIE]. Especially served in tiny little ramekins individually portioned for the control freak in you. Plus, you eat your one little serving and then boom! You’re pleasantly full and all set for the morning. Unless you eat another one.
Turns out breakfast cakes aren’t safe when left all alone. Who knew?
Apple Pie Breakfast Cakes
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1/3 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- a pinch each of nutmeg, ground ginger, & ground cardamom
- 1 medium apple, peeled and diced into cubes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add egg and mix until well combined. Add in vanilla and yogurt and stir. Mix dry ingredients together and add to batter, only mixing until just combined. Fold in apple chunks.
- Spray 2 ramekins {I used the 6 ounce, 3 1/2 inch} with non-stick spray and pour batter into them equally. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- For the brown sugar topping, I simply combined 1/2 tablespoon flour, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, a pinch of salt and 2 teaspoons of melted butter and then crumbled it over top before baking. For an optional glaze on top, combine 3-4 tablespoons of powdered sugar and a drop or two of milk (literally a drop) and whisk until a glaze forms.
Notes
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P.S. I hear these make a tasty dessert too. I’d rather eat my dessert for breakfast.
157 Comments on “Apple Pie Breakfast Cakes.”
I looooove you, my darling! I’d count the ways, but I don’t have the time. (Cardamom, ginger, & nutmeg would be a few.) Deeeelightful! BUT, what do u mean “optional glaze?” Are you kidding me? I see no other option here.
Heh! Agreed.
I have never been one to love apple pie…but these look delish!!!
Oh, geez. These look incredible. Yummm.
Can I live with you? For real. My day was better just looking at the pictures of this breakfast!
Holy Cow!! These look amazing!
Wow, this looks so over the top delicious. Love the idea of making them in individual servings too…(although I’m sure I would be eating at least a couple of the individual servings in one sitting!)
This just screams fall!! YUM!
I love that this is now considered to be breakfast!
Oh my goodness… Yes, please! I have a cold bowl of cereal every morning and I think this would be a welcome change in routine!
I love cereal. It just takes about 435 bowls of it to fill me up.
These look like dessert to me! Perfect for fall.
Would you like to start a breakfast blog together? I would!! :)
How fun would that be?!
Breakfast blog? Yes please!
Dear me … these look glorious. And I just had breakfast. What a shame. Perhaps it’s time to channel my inner hobbit and starting having second breakfasts.
pie. cake. fainting.
I’ve been looking for an excuse to eat dessert for breakfast. Perfect!
Dessert and breakfast are synonymous in my book. Why not start your day with your favorite foods?
I just love breakfast too. It’s my all-time favorite meal of the day. Plus, it’s a very good excuse to have dessert for a meal. These look great, Jessica! :-) ….and they are a reminder that Fall is just around the corner! Yay!
Oooo wow these look amazing. I have to stop being lazy and give these a try! thanks
Question: Do you initially get a lot of your recipes from cookbooks or online recipes and then modify? Or do you make meals with no recipes at all? Just curious! I love everything that you come up with!
These days I make most meals with no recipes at all, but I think that is just the natural progression of things. When I first started I used tons of recipes from cookbooks/online/or my grandma’s book – like if you look back at my first few months of posts are lot are adapted. If I find something I love, I will still do that or link where it’s adapted from. But now that I’m in the kitchen every single day it’s really easy to throw my own stuff together. It’s like second nature.
Breakfast is my favorite meal although I can understand the “I’m-hungry-food-now!” feeling too. These look fantastic!
Please. Yes. Now. I need these.
with this breakfast the morning is going to be fantastic :-)
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Dessert for breakfast is definitely the way to go. I’ve been wondering what to do with the flat of apples awaiting my culinary creativity from their perch in the fridge. Now I am inspired!
come over and make me breakfast? please?
Done.
Those look gorgeous and love that they are perfectly sized for 2.
Be still my beating heart! My farmers market is even starting to sell apples so it’s set. These must be made on Saturday for breakfast after my run.
I just made this for breakfast this morning and it was wonderful! I just couldn’t resist any longer:)
Anytime I hear cake and breakfast in the same sentence you have my attention! I totally agree that breakfast is the new thing but maybe its always been the thing because its the meal you eat after the longest break between meals…8 hours what!? And anytime you add fruit to cake its totally breakfast worthy!
Seriously!
Yum, I love breakfast and I love dessert; these are just perfect and too cute! Perfect for fall too!
Mmmmm, I’ve been saying for ages I need custard dishes and this may have made my argument slightly more potent.
This looks like Autumn in a ramekin. I’ll take 2 for dinner tonight :)
I had carrot cake porridge, with maple syrup, for dinner the other day when I got in late – does that count as breakfast for dinner AND dessert?!
I seem to kindasortamaybe love it too… and these look great :-)
I’m the same way in the morning…I need food in my face, as soon as possible. These look worth the wait for breakfast though!
Wow! These look great. You always now how to tempt me with the sweets. Well done friend. :)
dessert is good anytime. so is breakfast. i’m pretty much gonna die right now these look so good.
Jessica,
The only thing better than your great recipes are your amazing pictures. I think you previously mentioned owning a Nikon D5000. I have the same camera but can’t seem to capture the quality that you do when I take indoor shots. What lens are you using for most of these food shots? Do you use any lighting? Thank you so much for this great blog!
Thank you so much Jed! I use this lens: http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-35mm-AF-S-Digital-Cameras/dp/B001S2PPT0.
I only shoot in natural light. I have a big window that gets light all day long in my dining room. Sometimes I use some white foam board as a bounce if needed. And I edit my pics (depending on the backgrounds) in Lightroom!
I just discovered your blog and boy am I excited about it!
Thanks Maya!
“So bonus points whenever you have breakfast for dinner.”— I just posted that the other day! That sometimes growing up we’d eat cold cereal for dinner b/c I just made a dessert with Golden Grahams and it got me thinking to all the bowls of GG’s I used to eat for dinner growing up. Or waffles. And during Lent, I think we ate pancakes, waffles, or cereal about 5x a week for dinner..ha!
Anyway..these are adorable. Love anything in ramekins and with a glaze AND with a crumble topping. NICE!
me too on the last sentence!! yum!
No you didn’t!!! Swoooooon.
Oh, these look amazing! That’s my kind of breakfast :)
Um, can I come over for breakfast? I’ll bring the coffee…I mean the margaritas ;)
Pretty sure people would stop skipping breakfast if they had these little babies to eat. Just sayin’!
What one of my daughters said just now, “Yummmmmy! Can you make that right now, PLUHEEZE?”
Yeah. I want ’em too honey.
My boyfriend LOVES anything apple. Snapple Apple, Apple Pie, Apple picking… he even requested Apple Crisp instead of cake last year for his birthday. It’s that serious. I will most definitely be making these with the first round of fresh apples that we pick!
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Where do you get your Whole Wheat pastry flour? I’ve looked at 3 places including TJ’s. Do I need to order it online?
I find mine at my local grocery store! I get Bob’s Red Mill brand. If there is an organic/health section in your store with those products, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t there. I’ve never seen it at Trader Joe’s though.
My son is the apple lover in our family. He would be all over these…yum! I think I will make them for him this weekend. I bet you could freeze the individual ramekins and pop them in the microwave to warm them-perfect for a quick breakfast! :-)
Great idea!
Yummm,
but what if you didn’t have darling little ramekins? What might you advise for a baking dish (and I assume, adjusting the cooking time accordingly?)
hmmm I’m honestly not sure since they only feed two people… maybe try making them into muffins? But I have yet to try!
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I made these last night and the taste-absolutely delish! It was difficult to wait until breakfast, but everyone loved them this morning! I could not figure out why someone would only make two of these though…unless they live alone? So, for a family of 4 I doubled the recipe and wound up with 6 ramekins (4 7-ounce and 2 6-ounce) filled to the brim with batter, which quickly bubbled and dribbled onto the pan I had wisely placed under them in the oven. So, did anyone else have this issue? I do live at just above 5,000 feet so maybe that’s it? I also subbed regular whole flour instead of pastry flour because that is what I had. Next time I think I will try a muffin pan.
This looks out of this world delicious. Can you use wheat flour or cake flour if you don’t have wheat pastry flour??
I would NOT use regular whole wheat – it will probably be a bit too gritty and dry. You could use a 50/50 mix of regular whole wheat and all-purpose. Unfortunately I am not familiar with cake flour at all, so I can’t say if it would yield the same result.
I cannot wait to make this. I pinned it so I wouldn’t forget. I love that I first heard about Pinterest from you and now I’m pinning your yummy looking treats.