 Hey y'all, it's Timmy, and apple season is in. That cool weather gets you in the mood for a nice apple cake. We're about to put one in the oven. My apple skillet cake. All right, when I peel my apples, I just go across the top and the bottom, and then I just use a paring knife and I peel them. And then once we peel them, I'm gonna core it. And when you chop off the top or bottom flat like that, it's a lot easier to core because it lays flat for you when you get ready to core it. These, of course, weren't in the grocery store, so they're gonna have some bad places in them. And that's how apples will be if you go and get them from an orchard or an apple, you know, a farm. So you just kinda cut out the ugly parts. And then after you peel them, you can just use your apple core and get the center out. The main thing when you're using an apple to do a skillet cake is you need to make sure you're using an apple that has a soft flesh and it's gonna get done, and it's not gonna be still hard when you go to eat the cake. Golden deliciouss are perfect, and these have the same texture as the golden delicious, so they're gonna cook up fast. All right, we're gonna get these in our bowl and we're gonna toss them in a little bit of lemon juice to keep them from turning. And I tasted this apple, I cooked a little bit. I've got it right here in a bowl, and because I had never cooked with it before I wanted to taste it, you're gonna want your apple to be nice and soft like you see this, I didn't cook it that long, but you're also gonna want it to be a little bit tart and sweet at the same time. You can pair a tart and sweet apple together, or you can buy an apple that's both tart and sweet, that's why I like the golden delicious. But we are going to add a little bit of lemon juice to this because these were not real tart and sweet, and that'll help them keep from turning as well. Now this is a cake you need to cook the day you serve it because it's not a pretty cake after it's sat over nine. I will say that, but boy, it's my favorite apple cake of all. It really is, it's my favorite one. All righty, now we're gonna toss these in some brown sugar with a little bit of cinnamon sugar. Now the cinnamon sugar is optional, so you're gonna add a quarter cup of sugar, quarter cup of sugar, a packed brown sugar, and then I'm gonna put a little cinnamon sugar in it because I like it. You don't have to put cinnamon in there if you don't want to, but me and Chris like it. So I'm gonna toss this and you can just add it all to the skillet, but I wanted to toss it since I put the lemon juice in there today. All right, we're gonna hop over here to our skillet and we're gonna put in a high stick of butter which is four tablespoons and we're gonna let it melt. We're gonna add these apples. You need to have your oven temperature at 350 degrees. You might smell so good, y'all. It's that time of year, it's cooling down, everybody's ready for something, apple. This is an easy cake to make. So you're gonna put your apples in there and now we're gonna mix up some cake batter. I'm gonna use a half cup of shortening, a half cup of brown sugar, and a cup of regular sugar. So there's our regular sugar. I'm gonna turn this on. I'm gonna spray the edges of my pan so that my cake, I'll make sure that my cake's not gonna stick. Now we're gonna put our cake mix on top. Now if you've got a deeper skillet, it wouldn't hurt to use it. And I'm gonna make sure that, try not to let this thing cook over, like have too much batter. I could always make some cupcakes or something out of the extra but you're not gonna want to put too much of it in a skillet. I did use quite a few apples but it's gonna take most of it, I think. But if you do have one of the higher three inch skillets, use it. And now all we're gonna do is bake this. And if you want it to be more like a spice layer, then add some spices into your cake mix. And then it would be like an apple stack cake without all the trouble, okay? Let's get this cake out. Rose up nice. Make sure it's done. You know what, I'm used to do this. Yeah, it's done. Clean. When you flip this out, the apples do kinda go everywhere. So, get you a little spatula and have it ready. And you need to flip it out because if you like the apples and stuff cool, they're syrupy and they're sticky and then they'll cling to the skillet and not the cake. So, let's see how it does. Looks good enough to eat, don't it? Look how pretty it is, y'all. This fall, if you go to the apple orchard, this is a cake that you can make for your company or family to use up some of those apples. And boy, well, you love it. And like I said, if you want more spices in it, put them in the apples, put it in the cake batter. But this is just your simple apple skillet cake. Now, what I'm doing right now is taking my skillet. What I'm doing right now is taking my spatula and you can see it's got this thick syrup that it's formed and I'm kind of scraping it on to the cake and off of my cake plate. And I'm gonna rinse that off too so that when I put my cake plate on, it doesn't get all sticky. And just kind of go around the edge, but that looks delicious to me. This is such a yummy cake. All right, now we're gonna wipe this off so that your cake dome doesn't get sticky and do not cover this up until it's cold completely or it'll sweat under the dome. Okay, you gotta eat this hot with some ice cream. It's so good. So we're gonna cut it right now. It's still warm. So keep that in mind when I'm cutting it. That's the best way to eat. I have some ice cream with it. Wish I were here to get a bite, but this is such an easy cake to make. I'll need to mix one up, throw it in your, I'm skillet. Boy, will you be happy you did. By far my favorite apple cake out of all the apple cakes. This is my favorite. Thanks for watching Color2ValleyCooks, where we cook like mama did. Bye y'all, love ya. Happy apple season.