Niagara Nice & Spicy Chicken and Dutch Apple Cake

Once again, I have scheduled this on a Tuesday.  Why???!!  

Tonight's main course, Niagara Nice & Spicy Chicken, comes from a 4-H unit from long ago.   For those 'city folk' out there who are reading this, 4-H is a rural organization that teaches agricultural, financial and homemaking skills to youths.  I was in 4-H from about the age of 10-16.  I don't remember the specific unit where this recipe comes from and Google doesn't seem to have it listed anywhere.  

As far as the cake goes, I must confess that I have actually made this a number of times.  It is always a quick standby recipe for me if people are coming over for coffee.  

As it turned out, this was a very easy recipe to make on a busy night full of activities.

Niagara Nice and Spicy Chicken
Cut up chicken pieces (I used thighs as my kids tend to like dark meat better)
1 tbsp canola oil
1 can drained peaches (reserve juice)
Barbecue sauce.

Heat oil in frying pan and brown chicken.   Take a 1 cup measure and add reserved peach juice.  Fill to top of measuring cup with barbecue sauce (so that you make one cup in total).  Mix juice/sauce mixture. Add to browned chicken.  Simmer for 20 minutes.  Add peach slices and simmer for 15 minutes more.

I served it on rice with vegetable sticks on the side.

BBQsauce/peach juice added to browned chicken

et voila

Dutch Apple Cake
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
5 drops lemon juice (I was out of lemons so substituted vanilla)
2 apples, peeled and sliced into thin slices
Cinnamon sugar  (mix of 1 tsp cinnamon with 2 tsp sugar)
Cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs, one at a time.  Add lemon juice, flour, baking powder and salt.   Spread in the bottom of a greased, spring form pan.   Add apples on top in a nice, circular pattern.  Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top.  Bake at 375 for 45 minutes.   (as my springform was a 9 inch pan, It took only about 37 minutes to bake)

The verdict:
Success!!    The kids liked the flavour of the chicken and the peaches were a hit.  Eleanor had 3 helpings of the peaches.   Philip did think it was weird to eat warm peaches.   The cake was definitely inhaled by all.    Oma's original recipe did not call for the cinnamon sugar, but I thought it added a nice look and flavour.  

Yum!

Willy samples Willie's cake!