Caramel Apple Poundcake – a Sara Lee pound cake sliced in half with chopped green apple, salted caramel and melted chocolate in the middle and layered again on top. Oh, and don’t forget the nuts!

After summer, Fall is my favorite time of year.

I love the Fall foliage with the sound of crushing leaves underfoot. The foliage I see this year won’t be as spectacular as last year’s gorgeous scenery in New Hampshire because we’re now living in the Arizona desert. Not too many Maple trees out here in these parts.

I also like the cooler temps and being able to wear sweaters and jeans and feeling that cool crisp air surround you, the smell of Fall, the pumpkins, the trick-or-treaters in their costumes (the cute ones – I’m not into the gory, bloody stuff) and the apples. Oh, the apples!

Yes, you can get apples all year round, but there’s something special about eating apples in the Fall, especially a delicious caramel apple. Am I right?

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While shopping at Walmart the other day I spotted the Sara Lee All-Butter Pound Cakes in the freezer section. They reminded me of my old friend, Patty and I just couldn’t wait to taste it again.

I was first introduced to Sara Lee pound cakes as a mere child. Ok, maybe not mere, probably in third or fourth grade. Patty was from Chile and she and I would sit at the same table. She’d take out her brown bag and I’d have my lunch box because back then we had those cool metal lunch boxes.

I had Holly Hobbie. My mother liked her – I didn’t.

So, out of her brown bag, Patty would take her sandwich, her chips, her napkin and two things mom NEVER packed me in my lunch – pomegranate arils and a slice of Sara Lee All-Butter Pound Cake. I always thought Patty had the coolest lunches and one day, she generously shared not only those arils, but a piece of that pound cake with me.

I was in heaven, I tell ya. It was so delicious that I’m sure I told my mother that night when she came home from work that she had to buy one because it was so delicious! Fortunately, she did and I remember how proud I was to be taking my very own slices into lunch after that.

With the pound cake in my fridge and my recent desire for a caramel apple, I knew I needed to combine the two, but I didn’t want to make a second run to the store.

Fortunately, I had everything I needed right in my fridge and pantry. There are so many wonderful ways to eat a Sara Lee pound cake and most often I’ll put strawberries and whipped cream on it to make Strawberry Shortcake, but I think my favorite way to eat it is by itself.

The great thing about them though besides the fact that they’re so delicious is that it’s so easy to create a fantastic dessert for your family or company with what you have in your pantry. So, I didn’t need to run to the store – I had the apple and some salted caramel sauce in the fridge along with the lemon juice.

No hot fudge sauce, but I found a great stash of chocolate chips. I melted some of those up and…TA DA!!! Next thing you know we have a Caramel Apple Pound Cake and kids drooling as I’m taking pictures waiting for their slice.

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