Cinnamon Oat Cake with Roasted Peaches & Honey

 Tasty warm comforting goodness.

This is kind of like breakfast and kind of like dessert so basically you can eat it any time! The cake itself is not too sweet to complement the natural sugar in the peaches and the extra honey. I actually wouldn't even call it a cake - more like baked oatmeal bread pudding.

Cinnamon Oat Cake with Roasted Peaches & Honey Recipe:

• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1/4 cup applesauce
• 1 egg
• 3 tbsp milk
• pinch of salt
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 2 tbsp chopped dried cranberries (or raisins)
• 1/2 tbsp melted butter
• 1 cup chopped peaches
• 1 tbsp honey (for drizzling)

Combine all your ingredients in a bowl (sans peaches and extra honey) and transfer to a 1-cup ramekin (this is a single serving recipe). Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes. Wrap your peaches in a foil packet and throw in the oven as well. After 20 minutes,  set oven to broil to brown the top of the cake. By this time your peaches should also be soft, sweet and juicy. Remove the cake, let cool for a few minutes then remove from ramekin. Top with peaches, juice and extra honey. Yum!

No-Bake Pumpkin Pudding Pie

You know the problem with seasonal dishes?

We think we can ONLY eat them during that particular time of year.

I don't know about you, but I crave roast turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie ALL the time. But I guess if I indulged in that craving all the time, Thanksgiving would no longer be so awesome.

Well anyway, this is a pumpkin pie recipe that's perfect for summer. It's cool, refreshing and requires no oven time (well excluding the crust, but you could totally just serve this in a bowl).

Obviously the pudding to crust ratio is overwhelmingly uneven, but I swear there is a crust under there!

No-Bake Pumpkin Pudding Pie Recipe:

• 1 can solid packed pumpkin
• 1 package vanilla pudding mix
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1 tsp cinnamon + more for topping
• 1/2 tsp all-spice
• 1 pre-made crust (I made a weird one that I'll share, but you can use store-bought)

Mix pumpkin with milk in a medium bowl. Add in the pudding mix and spices and whisk together until smooth (no grainy pudding lumps, people!). Pour into prepared crust in a pie dish and refrigerate at least for 4 hours to set (overnight is best). Enjoy with whipped cream or by itself!

Crust:

• 2 packages instant cinnamon oatmeal
• 1/3 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 tbsp margarine
• 1 tbsp applesauce
• 1 tsp honey

So I wasn't originally going to use a crust, which is why I kind of panicked and threw together something from on-hand ingredients. But it actually turned out quite delicious! Because I used instant oatmeal that was already chock full of cinnamon and sugar, I only added a little bit of honey. If you use plain oats, you'll need to add more sugar. 

Basically just mix it all together, pat evenly into a 9-inch pie pan (greased) and bake for about 10 minutes in 425-degree oven or until browned.