October sees the start of a new monthly Pink Whisk baking challenge – there’s so many lovely recipes and lots of great baking out there I thought it was time you shared it with me (you could win yourself a great prize too – but more on that in a minute!)
At the start of each month I will set a baking challenge based around a seasonal ingredient, and also reserve the right to throw in something random occasionally too (probably glitter!)
October’s challenge is Apples – still bountiful at this time of year and I’m always looking for great recipes to use them up.
October’s Prize:
How fitting that October’s challenge is sponsored by Pink Lady Apples!
Pink Lady apples are an ideal baking ingredient as they are naturally sweet, meaning you don’t need to add sugar, and are firm and crisp so they also keep their texture very well when cooked. Plus, if you leave the skin on in dishes like crumbles and pies they give it a beautiful pink blush. What more could a Pink Whisker ask for?! And now, ta da, the prize….
The winner of the Pink Whisk October challenge will receive:
A pink Magimix 2-in-1 Le Duo Juicer (worth £149.00) – a two in one fruit juicer with a citrus press with large and small cones and a centrifugal juicer for all other vegetables. Suitable for all fruit and vegetable juices, all parts are dishwasher safe and removable for easier cleaning, and come with 12 years motor guarantee and 3 years for parts.
For full spec please see here – John Lewis
A Pink Lady eco-shopper bag
An exclusive Pink Whisk apron – you can’t buy these for love nor money (handmade for me, and you, by my Mum x) and a jar of my super zingy lemon curd!
To enter, all you have to do is bake up your favourite recipe using apples, from your garden, from a neighbour or just from the shops (and don’t forget you can’t go far wrong with a Pink Lady apple) 😉 then share the photo and the recipe!
It can be one you’ve devised yourself or an old favourite (just make sure you credit the baker or book it’s from and write the method in your own words).
If you blog – feature the recipe on your site, comment on this post making sure to include your name/blog name, URL and title of your recipe. Posts mustn’t be historic and must be published after the challenge launch post. Please also include a link to The Pink Whisk Challenge.
If you don’t blog, I’d still love you to enter the challenge and share your recipe. Upload your photo to the Pink Whisk Challenge group on Flickr and post the recipe in the comments section below your pic and Bobs your Uncle, that’s your entry into the Challenge done! (You will need to create a Flickr account)
You have until the 28th October 2011 to bake and post your recipe. The winner of the challenge will be chosen at random from all the blog and flickr entries received shortly after and will be announced on The Pink Whisk. Apologies to overseas Pink Whiskers but prizes will only be available to entrants from the UK unless otherwise stated. For full terms and conditions please see here. For more details on entering – The Pink Whisk Challenge page will help you.
If you tweet:
Then tweet me (@thepinkwhisk) a link to your recipe/entry and I will retweet it to the baking mad masses – if you also include @pinkladyappleuk they might just too!
This is the first time I’ve set up something like this so if you have any problems it means the gremlins have messed things up! Please email me at
ruth (at)thepinkwhisk(dot)co(dot)uk and I will try and fix it!
So, time to bake! Get your apples together, dig out your best recipe and enter The Pink Whisk Challenge!
I’ll be kicking you off with my apple recipe tomorrow xx
Ruth Clemens, Baker Extraordinaire

Brilliant idea Ruth! I love baking with apples at this time of year..I’ll definitely join in! I think I have a recipe in mind already…:-)
Fab idea, will def be taking part!! 🙂 x
What fortuitous timing! I just made some fabulous muffins featuring Pink Lady Apples this weekend! I had been meaning to blog about them. I hope its OK that I already baked them, but it was just before the challenge came out? If not let me know and I will get back in the kitchen! 🙂
So here is my entry:
Toffee Apple Crumble Top Muffins.
So excited to see all the other entries! Great challenge!
Yes that counts – top marks for being so quick! Xx
WONDERFUL challenge and lovely prizes too….as I have a stack of apples from my tree this year, I will be back!
Karen
I also had baked something featuring apple for the blog this week so I’ve posted it up today!
Apple and spice brown butter blondies:
http://londonbakes.blogspot.com/2011/10/apple-spice-brown-butter-blondes.html
Great challenge!
I have made some this morning Apple and pear muffins, hope it is ok i added the pear in (one of my sneaky ways to get the kids to eat them) plus they needed using.
here is my recipe
http://amumwholovestobake.blogspot.com/2011/10/apple-and-pear-muffins.html
I love it… count me in!… I have been baking with Apples for our forthcoming Apple Day, so I have a tonne of lovely recipes… great challenge x
Brilliant, I had just been drooling over this month’s Good Food cover recipe and this is a great excuse to bake it!
ooh fab prizes Ruth. Thanks.
Hope you like my recipe 🙂
http://bonjourcupcakes.blogspot.com/
xxx
You got me at the apron. Love that your Mum makes them. Drat I live outside the UK 🙂
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My Jaume Brichs.
http://thediaryofacakemaker.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/the-pink-whisks-october-challenge/
These are really tasty, healthy and yummy!!!
These look lovely – thank you x
I’d just been given a huge bag of apples from a friend’s garden which I’m now working my way through. I made (and blogged) some apple & cinnamon muffins : http://thecorneroftheinterneticallhome.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-promise-ill-do-some-non-kitchen-based.html
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My blog entry for the October Apple Challenge: Apple Crumble Cake: http://beesteas.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/apple-crumble-cake-for-tea/
Enjoy 🙂
Lovely challenge and nice prizes too. I’ve made loads of cakes and biscuits with apple in recently, but this month I’ve made Apple and Lemon Curd. which I plan to use as a filling for a cake or two I’ll be making next week.
http://choclogblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/apple-and-lemon-curd.html
I am in need of this challenge, having excessive apples on our tree. I may be cheating by suggesting chutney, but this is an excellent way to use the fruit and keep it for months to come. The two recipes I tried yesterday are detailed in this blog post:
http://withenay.blogspot.com/2011/10/apples-everywhere.html
Fab use of apples! – my husband is a chutney addict so these would go down a storm in our house! xx
Thank you for such a lovely challenge & a wonder array of treats.
I made Spiced Apple Cake with Pecans, Blackberry Compote & Cream.
http://dearloveblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/spiced-apple-cake-with-blackberry-compote-cream-an-autumnal-victoria-sponge/
Hi Ruth,
What a great idea, please find my submission for this month made with foraged apples, as well as eating apples from my fathers allotment. The recipe is for a Cinnamon Apple Shortcakes. I hope I am eligible to enter. Kind wishes
http://allotment2kitchen.blogspot.com/2011/10/cinnamon-apple-shortcakes.html
These look beautiful! Thank you for sharing x
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My entry for the October challenge. Not Pink Lady but I wouldn’t mind trying to grow some! http://www.smithycraft.co.uk/smithyblog/?p=564
Blackberry and Apple Crumble Cake from Scrumptious Sally http://www.scrumptioussally.com/2011/10/my-perfect-autumn-cake-blackberry-apple.html – looks decidedly delicious! xx
My blog is up from the weekend.. I made Ginger Caramel Apple Pudding… enjoy and Happy Baking x
http://what-laura-made.blogspot.com/2011/10/ginger-caramel-apple-puddings.html
Love your blog and this challenge is a great idea; I’ve made an apple and almond tart.
Here is Snowy’s Apple and Almond Tart http://cookbooksgalore1.blogspot.com/2011/10/apple-and-almond-tart.html
Hello!
Here’s my entry from my blog Hefs Kitchen!
Spiced Apple Turnovers
http://www.hefskitchen.com/2011/10/spiced-apple-turnovers.html
Yes please – your recipe title and your blog address then everyone can have a look xx
I have made my first apple recipe for your challenge and have linked up and posted the log to my blog post too, as well as tweeted it!
Karen S Booth @KarenBurnsBooth on twitter
Lavender and Lovage
http://lavenderandlovage.blogspot.com/
Harvest Apple Cake and post link is:
http://lavenderandlovage.blogspot.com/2011/10/harvest-home-seasonal-bake-for-autumn.html
Thanks!
I’ve just made my entry:
Cinnamon Crumble Apple cake
http://themorethanoccasionalbaker.blogspot.com/2011/10/cinnamon-crumble-apple-cake.html
and I’ll be tweeting from @bakingaddict
My entry is Cinnamon Crumble Apple cake
http://themorethanoccasionalbaker.blogspot.com/2011/10/cinnamon-crumble-apple-cake.html
Have also tweeted from @bakingaddict
Hiya Ruth! what a lovely, lovely baking challenge! Here’s my entry, apple and cinnamon crumble cake:
http://whatkatebaked.blogspot.com/2011/10/final-call-for-autumnal-baking.html
I’ll also tweet from @katecakeandbake
This challenge was a fabulous way to use up some of the many apples we have on our tree this year. Thanks for being such an inspiration. Here is my entry of a Toffee Apple Tart with a Gingerbread Crust: http://www.lostartofeating.com/?p=237
Will also tweet from @lostartofeating
Here’s my entry – Apple & Walnut cake with treacle icing:
http://cakesfromkim.blogspot.com/2011/10/apple-walnut-cake-pink-whisks-october.html
I’ve made Orchard Cider Butter – blog post here – with a link back to the Pink Whisk. I’ve stopped by this blog from time although not for a while, and love the new look too :o)
Ruthx (A different one!)
Oops – just realised I didn’t include the link!
Second time lucky – brain functionality has been destroyed by a head cold, apologies
http://makey-cakey.blogspot.com/2011/10/pink-whisk-challenge-apples-for-october.html
Rx
Hi Ruth
I have just posted my entry for the October Challenge: an Apple Tarte Tatin!
http://www.workinglondonmummy.com/2011/10/tarte-tatin.html
kind regards
Nazima
http://www.workinglondonmummy.com
I’ve finally kicked my man flu into touch and managed to get busy with some apples! Here’s what I did – Apple and Currant Crumble Bars.
http://hummingbirdyear.blogspot.com/2011/10/currant-ly-yum.html
Great challenge, Ruth – look forward to some more before the end of the year! xx
Great challenge Ruth! I have made Apple & Cinnamon Muffins. Here is my entry: http://whatibakedthisweekend.blogspot.com/2011/10/apple-cinnamon-muffins.html
I’ll also tweet from @MissCakebaker
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Here is my entry: Apple Streusel Cake: http://nicsnotebook.com/2011/10/24/apple-crumble-cake/ xx 🙂
Wow what a fab challenge! I keep seeing links to your blog and it looks fab!” I have a brilliant apple recipe in mind that I keep wanting to try- will hopefully make it this week before the deadline! 🙂
Hi Ruth! Here is my entry: Mini caramel & apple loaves
http://cookiescakesbakes.blogspot.com/2011/10/pink-whisk-challenge-october-2011-mini.html
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Here is mine, simple but delicious apple crumble 🙂
https://joskitchen.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/the-pink-whisk-october-challenge-apples/
Hi Ruth,
I have made a tarte tatin for your October baking challenge.
Jean, Baking in Franglais.
http://bakinginfranglais.blogspot.com/2011/10/perfect-tarte-tatin.html
hi Ruth
I thought I had left a comment about my post but must have not done it properly. Here is my entry! http://www.workinglondonmummy.com/2011/10/tarte-tatin.html
Looks fab! X
Hi
I made caramel apple bars
http://runningcupcake.co.uk/2011/10/rainy-day-baking/
Maria
Maria at runningcupcake.co.uk toffee apple bars
http://runningcupcake.co.uk/2011/10/rainy-day-baking/
Fluffy Toffee Apple Cake (recipe in link above on flickr)
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