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I am not sure what happened, but like every week I made my Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, in this case it was Applesauce Spice Bars. Lovely moist fruit bars flooded with a sweet caramel coating across the top. They were good, so good that I ate nearly half the pan in one evening. I couldn’t shake the idea of adding some coriander and presenting it more like a carrot cake, so I made the recipe two more times in the same week resulting in this Coriander Caramel Apple Cake.

Pictures were taken, and then accidentally deleted.  With no photos, I decided I would wait a few days and make it again and then get my August 18^th post up on the 20^th, or the 21^st at the latest, but either way I will definitely have time to sit down over the weekend and post on the 22^nd or 23^rd…It’s September 3^rd and I have come crawling back to my blog. I am not really sure what happened to the last three weeks, but let’s just chock it up to “summer holiday” and move on.

Karen, of Something Sweet by Karen, picked this great recipe. You can see the actual Applesauce Spice Bars that were the inspiration for my cake on her blog where she has also posted the recipe.  Here is a link to my Coriander Caramel Apple Cake recipe. If you want to read more about coriander and why it’s good in sweet and savory dishes, check out our Spice Library.

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