Apple Bread Pudding

Easy & healthy. And perfect for using up stale bread.

Ingredients
cooking spray
1 apple, cut into thin slices
Bread like french loaf, tear off into small 1" pieces
4 eggs
2-1/2 cups non-fat milk
3/4 cup Splenda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
non-fat vanilla yogurt

Steps
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Spray pan and saute apple about 5 minutes for apples to get soft.
3. Spray small glass dish.
4. Place bread in bottom of dish and top with apples.
5. Mix together eggs, milk, Splenda, cinnamon and nutmeg.
6. Pour mix on top of bread and apples.
7. Bake about 50 - 60 minutes. The bread pudding is ready when you can stick a fork or toothpick in and it comes out clean.
8. Let cool for 5 minutes and then serve with cold non-fat vanilla yogurt.

Apple Cake

For Chanukah, I made a traditional apple cake with lots of apples. A little less traditional I added cranberries and because I didn't have any honey in our pantry I used maple syrup for the sticky sweet glaze on top.

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tsp. baking powder
pinch of salt
1 cup Splenda
3 extra large eggs
1/2 cup apple butter
1/2 cup oil
1 tsp. vanilla
2 very large apples (I believe I used janigold)
1/2 cup Splenda
3 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup cranberries (optional)

Maple Glaze:
1/2 cup maple syrup
2 tablespoons Splenda
2 teaspoons cinnamon

Steps
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-inch springform pan with cooking spray.
2. Mix flour, baking powder and salt.
3. Mix together 1 cup Splenda, beaten eggs, apple butter, oil and vanilla.
4. Peel and slice apples into chunks.
5. Sprinkle apples with 1/2 cup Splenda and cinnamon.
6. Stir dry mixture into wet mixture and apples. Add cranberries.
7. Pour into pan.
8. Bake about 60 minutes. Lightly cover pan with foil after 30 minutes.
9. Cool in pan. When it's cool place cake on wire rack.

For glaze: microwave 1/2 cup maple syrup, 2 tablespoons Splenda and 2 teaspoons cinammon.