If there’s anything as amazing as October in New York City I don’t believe you. The trees I didn’t know we had are dropping rust-colored leaves on the sidewalks the sky is impossibly blue the air is drinkably crisp and suddenly you can walk for miles without feeling overheated or exhausted. It leads to many trips to the farmer’s market. Even when we don’t need anything we make excuses to go like a little apple for our 13-month-old anti-New Yorker who laughs and chats (“Ga-ga! Gaga!”*) with strangers he passes on the sidewalk and if that doesn’t charm you yet imagine that same child holding a handful of flowers that the eggplant lady at the farmer’s market gave him to give to his mother. Seriously New York City is amazing in the fall.
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Amazing Applesauce Cake Recipe
And without exception this is my favorite month to cook the month where every recipe I come across pleases me more than the last. Remember last week when I thought “These scones are from October on a parchment-lined baking sheet”? I lied. Turns out they are. Well in a greased square pan. It’s one of those cakes you just have to make just because you can. Just because there’s nothing not to love about a kitchen filled with the smell of freshly baked gingerbread. Or because you’re probably drowning in apples and applesauce from your apple-picking expeditions and are running out of ideas for them. Or because you’ve never come across a use for cream cheese frosting you wouldn’t love.
I don't spend a lot of time discussing ingredients on this site because I like to focus on the kinds of recipes that work with whatever you can get your hands on whether it's a big-box store brand or ground-up organic fairies. But. Two weeks ago I stopped by the Penzey's spice stand in Grand Central Terminal Market just to check out what as we all know is shorthand for "Time to break out the granny cart!" I had a list of things I was curious about — What does good white pepper taste like? Why does Mexican vanilla extract smell so much more heavenly? Tell me about Aleppo pepper! — but the thing that took this cake from "perfect" to "transcendent" was Vietnamese cinnamon which was stronger brighter and richer than any I'd used before. I can't think of anything better to treat yourself to this cinnamon-dusted season or a more welcome addition to the recipe below.
* He thinks his name is Gaga. We keep telling him that name is already taken and that he should be called “Little Lord Gaga” from now on.
