Apple Butter Sundae Recipe

“Cherchies Apple Butter- “One of the best”- Sallyanne 7/4/2020”

Originally posted in 2015, this recipe and pictures have been updated.

A spread of Apple Butter a day keeps the doctor away. That’s what they say, right? (Just kidding, I know it is an apple a day). I wonder what they say if it’s served over ice cream?

I may have found a new favorite easy dessert, Apple Butter Spread over ice cream, drizzled with chocolate syrup. Yum!

It had never dawned on me to put apple butter over ice cream until my kiddos came up with this concoction. Thank you, kiddos! They heated our apple butter spread, and lovingly decorated their ice cream with it, chocolate sauce, and their favorite sundae toppings for an instant, easy dessert! 

Undoubtedly, ice cream is a delicious, tasty treat, but add apple butter and chocolate syrup to the mix, and your mouth will thank you for the explosion of flavors and texture. So what do you say? Are you ready to give this delectable confection a try? You will not be disappointed; it is just what the doctor ordered.

This recipe also works well with our Cherry and Strawberry Butter Spreads.

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Enjoy.

Ingredients

• Your favorite ice cream

• Cherchies® Apple Butter Spread (Cherchies® Strawberry Butter, or Cherchies® Cherry Butter)

• Chocolate sauce (optional)

Preparation

There is not much preparation to this recipe as it is an easy, easy, recipe, !  Simply scoop mounds of your favorite ice cream, dollop our Apple Butter Spread (heated of course) over top, and if you'd like an extra decadence factor...drizzle chocolate sauce and add your favorite sundae toppings.  Oooh baby! 

Apple Butter A'La Mode Recipe

Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake Recipe

Cook Time:  30-40 minutes

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

**Updated February 2025**

Hi friends. Is it cold where you are? After several years of mild winters, Old Man Winter has finally taken hold here in Pennsylvania. It's downright freezing! We've experienced unseasonably cold temperatures and more snow and ice than I can remember. So, what do you do when it's too cold to go outside, you've exhausted movie and game nights, and you've finished yet another challenging puzzle? You bake.

During winter break, our youngest was home from college, and with all her energy (and a touch of boredom), she turned to baking—something she loved to do as a child. I cherished those baking moments with our kids when they were younger, and seeing them tackle recipes independently as young adults is genuinely priceless (and messy). Among the many delicious treats she made was a fabulous Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake featuring Cherchies® sweet apple butter and a tangy lemon glaze.

What's great about this recipe? It starts with a boxed cake mix! If you've been following our blog (thank you!), you know I enjoy making homemade recipes. However, when the urge to "bake something" strikes late at night, there's nothing wrong with having a boxed cake mix in the pantry. A happy college student equals a happy life! Trust me, as flavorful and moist as this coffee cake is, no one will suspect you had a little help from a boxed mix.

This delicious coffee cake recipe is moist and laced with Cinnamony goodness, and we guarantee your family and friends will enjoy it as much as we do!

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Coffee Cake Ingredients 

• 1 box yellow cake mix with pudding (We used Betty Crocker Super Moist Yellow Cake Mix)- *Note, if you do not have cake mix in your pantry, have no fear, there are many resources online for homemade cake mix. Here are a couple, in particular, I like from I am Baker and Kitchen Nostalgia.

• 2/3 cup Cherchies® Apple Butter Spread

• 1 cup buttermilk (*Substitute 1 cup milk plus 1 Tablespoon white vinegar, stir, and let sit for a minute)

• 4 eggs, room temperature

  Streusel Mix Ingredients

• 1-2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) ground cinnamon

•  2/3 cup brown sugar

  
  Icing Ingredients

• 2 Tablespoons lemon juice

• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
  
  

 Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray. (Occasionally, we will use this recipe in muffin tins to create muffins. We used jumbo muffin tins from Wilton to make them extra special. See *Note).

In a small bowl, mix the streusel ingredients with a fork. (You will be using half of the streusel mix for the layering effect mentioned shortly and the other half on top before baking).

Mix the coffee cake ingredients in a medium bowl with a hand mixer and beat for two minutes.

So here is the fun part. The goal is to layer half of the batter, followed by a little streusel mix, then add the remaining batter. Pour half of the batter into the baking dish and use a spatula or spoon to smooth the batter. Sprinkle half of the streusel mix evenly over the batter. Pour the remaining batter over.

After carefully layering the batter, take a butter knife and gently run the knife through the batter to make swirls. You will only need a couple of swirls. Finish by sprinkling the remaining streusel mix over the batter. Place the baking pan in the oven and bake for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Depending on your oven (see *Note above), begin checking for doneness at 30 minutes.

While the coffee cake is baking, mix the icing ingredients in a small bowl and set aside. When the coffee cake is finished, remove it from the oven and allow it to cool for about 15 minutes. The coffee cake can be slightly warm but not hot, or it will melt the icing. Drizzle the icing over the coffee cake, and enjoy!

Happy Baking!

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Cooking Tip: How To Make Frozen Yogurt Popsicles

Cooking Tip: How to Make Frozen Yogurt Popsicles

Posted originally 9/7/16, but updated to reflect the times.

Frozen popsicles are just plain fun for kiddos and adults alike. Am I right? They are perfect heat busters, the flavor combinations are endless, they are easy to make with real pronounceable ingredients you have handy, and they are creative outlets for cooped up young adults. Yes!

How are you doing? A LOT has happened these last few months, but our family is safe, and for that, I am grateful, and I hope you and your family are as well. Do you have children at home? We have a full house once again (25, 19, and 16), and our younger two are always bored (even after they do something), and they are always hungry. Sound familiar? Luckily, they have always loved helping in the kitchen, so when they were practically bouncing off the walls the other day, with "nothing to do," I suggested making one of their favorite summer recipes, homemade frozen yogurt popsicles®.

Surprisingly, no eye-roll :). Problem solved, a creative project they could make and eat! Win-win! (I must have caught them at a weak moment).

A few years back, our middle child, Nicholas (15 at the time) suggested we not only use fruit and yogurt (instead of the typical fruit and fruit juices) but add our fruit butter spreads and preserves to the mix, an idea that had never crossed my mind before. It made sense, fruit butter spreads are fruits that have cooked down to a spreadable consistency, so why not use them in frozen pops? But preserves? Yes! What a bright kiddo:).

So we set forth on our quest and made frozen yogurt pops with whatever ingredients we had on hand, blueberries, cherries, vanilla yogurt, leftover Cherry Butter,  Blackberry Preserves, and chocolate syrup. We created three different varieties, Blueberry Vanilla Yogurt Pops, Berry Cherry Yogurt Pops, and Ice Cream Sundae Yogurt Pops . The hardest part for young adults was waiting for the darn things to freeze;).  

These velvety, fruity concoctions will be a hit with your family, as they were with ours. They are the perfect healthy snack, dessert, or breakfast treat, they are easy to make with real ingredients, and they are the ideal boredom-buster project for all ages. Homemade is the best, especially when you can make recipes with someone else, and for me, my friends, spending time with our young adults, is priceless!

Here's how we made them (We made three kinds. You can see the recipes below ).

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Ingredients

• 1 large container (32 oz.) Greek Vanilla Yogurt

• Popsicle molds

• Popsicle sticks

• 1/2 cup chopped cherries

• 1/2 cup blueberries

• 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) Cherchies® Blackberry Preserves

• 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) Cherchies® Cherry Butter or Cherchies® Strawberry Butter

• 1 Tablespoon (Tbsp) Chocolate Syrup

Preparation

Before you begin, you'll need a few kitchen tools, a popsicle mold (I purchased this 10 serving mold on Amazon), and a cherry pitter (also to make my life easier).

1.  Separate the greek yogurt into 3 medium bowls (not necessary if only making one variety), and set aside. 

2.  In a small sauce pan, cook the blueberries and the Blackberry Preserves on low until the preserves have dissolved (a few minutes).  Turn off the heat and allow the preserves to cool about 5 minutes.  Now the fun begins!

3.  As I mentioned, we made three varieties.  I'll post another blog in the future (maybe the next heat wave) of other combinations.  For the Blueberry Vanilla Yogurt Pops, we added about 2 Tablespoons of the blueberry-preserve mixture.   Gently swirl the blueberry mixture into the yogurt.  Don't mix too much, as you want the swirled effect.  Carefully pour into the molds.

4.  For the Berry Cherry Pops, we followed Step 3 using 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) of the Blueberry-Preserve Mixture and we added 1/4 cup of chopped cherries to the mixture, swirled ever so gently just as above, and poured into our molds.

5.  Finally, for the Ice Cream Sundae Pops, we added to the remaining bowl of greek yogurt, chopped cherries, 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) Cherry butter (heated for 10 seconds in the microwave), and 1 Tablespoon of Chocolate Syrup.

6.  Once again, gently swirl the yogurt mixture and pour into the mold.  The molds I purchased had this handy lid to insert the sticks, but you could easily cover with plastic wrap and insert the sticks into the plastic.  Almost done!  Place in freezer and wait...and wait...and wait!

7.  After a few hours (what seems like eternity), remove the lid or plastic wrap, run the desired mold bottoms under warm water and gently pull out pops.  Voila!  Homemade frozen yogurt fruit pops, a sure-fire heat buster and delicious treat anytime!  Enjoy!

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Frozen Yogurt Popsicles

Blueberry Vanilla Yogurt Pops

• Vanilla Greek Yogurt (divided if making three separate batches)

• 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) Blueberry-Preserve Mixture (mentioned in Step 2)

• Follow directions above for making the pops

Berry Cherry Yogurt Pops

• Vanilla Greek Yogurt (divided if making three separate batches)

• 2 Tablespoons (Tbsp) Blueberry-Preserve Mixture (mentioned in Step 2)

• 1/4 cup chopped cherries

• Follow directions above for making the pops

Ice Cream Sundae Yogurt Pops

• Vanilla Greek Yogurt (divided if making three separate batches)

• 1/4 cup chopped cherries

• 1 Tablespoon Chocolate Syrup

• Follow directions above for making the pops

Peanut Butter and Jelly Chocolate Cups Recipe

Peanut Butter & Jelly Chocolate Cups Recipe

Cook Time:  About 20 minutes
Prep Time:  10 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Updated January 2025.

Chocolate and peanut butter lovers, gather around! It's National Peanut Butter Day! To celebrate, we combined two nostalgic favorites—peanut butter cups and PB&J—and created these deliciously decadent Peanut Butter and jelly chocolate cups featuring chocolate, peanut butter, and Cherchies® Preserves and Cherchies® Fruit Butter Spreads.

What makes everything better, other than chocolate (maybe bacon, but I will save that for another day)? Peanut Butter! These delightfully sweet and salty chocolate treats will tantalize your tastebuds and melt your guest's hearts. You don't need an official holiday to enjoy these chocolate dreams. Serve these tasty morsels at your next gathering, but grab some for yourself because they will disappear right before your eyes.

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Ingredients

• 2 cups chocolate chips/ dark chocolate chips 

• 1 teaspoon (tsp) coconut oil

• 12 muffin cup liners

• 1 cup peanut butter

• 1 cup powdered sugar

• 1/2 cup Cherchies® Preserves of choice or Cherchies® Butter Spreads

• Coarse sea salt for garnish (optional)

Preparation
Line a 12 cup muffin tin with disposable cupcake liners.

Combine Peanut Butter and powdered sugar in a medium bowl.  Mix ingredients with hand mixer until combined. Scoop mixture with melon ball scooper (1 inch) and place the mixture on a parchment paper lined tray. Place tray in freezer for about 10 minutes.  Remove Peanut Butter balls from the freezer and flatten with a spatula. Return to freezer while you prepare the chocolate.

While peanut butter patties are chilling, prepare the chocolate. Melt the chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon (tsp.) coconut oil in a bowl over a pan filled with about 1 1/2" water.  Turn the burner on high and stir chips as they begin to melt. (You could melt chips in microwave if your prefer, heating on 50% power for 30 second intervals, stirring each time until completely melted).  When all the chocolate chips are melted, remove the pan and bowl from heat and turn off the stove.

Add about 1 Tablespoon (Tbsp.) (dollop) of melted chocolate to each muffin cup.  Use a clean art brush to spread the chocolate up the sides.  Afterwards, tap the pan on the counter to even the chocolate in the cups.

When peanut butter patties are not tacky, remove them from the freezer and place patties in the middle of the chocolate cup. Add 1 teaspoon (tsp) Cherchies® Preserves or Cherchies® Fruit Butter Spreads and carefully spread over peanut butter patty, making sure not to go to the edge.  The chocolate needs to go on the sides and top. 

Add the remaining chocolate (1 Tablespoon (Tbsp)) to each of the cups.  Use a spoon or small spatula and spread chocolate over peanut butter and jelly to the edge of the cupcake liner to seal in the yumminess. Refrigerate for 20 minutes or until set.

Remove from refrigerator, sprinkle with coarse sea salt and enjoy!