Kentucky Proud apples are available from July through mid-October.  (USDA Photo by Scott Bauer)

Choosing Kentucky Proud apples

Look for apples that are firm, without soft spots or wrinkled skin.  Rinse well with cold water before eating.

Keeping Kentucky Proud apples fresh

Kentucky Proud apples keep well.  If stored in the refrigerator, you can keep them for one to two weeks.

A great Kentucky Proud apple recipe...Fresh Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Icing (from the Pride of Kentucky cookbook, from the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.)

You'll need:

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups sugar

3 cups sliced Kentucky Proud apples

1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

1 1/2 cups vegetable oil

3 Kentucky Proud eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Brown Sugar Icing (below)

Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl.  Add the apples, pecans, oil, eggs and vanilla and mix well.  Spoon into a bundt pan sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.  Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.  Cool in the pan for 10 minutes.  Invert onto a cake plate.  Spoon icing over the cake, spooning any icing that runs to the plate back onto the cake until the icing sticks.

Yield:  24 servings

Brown Sugar Icing

You'll neeed:

1 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup margarine

1/4 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Mix the brown sugar, margarine and milk in a 1 quart saucepan.  Bring to a boil.  Boil for 4 minutes.  Remove from heat.  Stir in the vanilla. 

Yield: 24 servings

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