You'll love this moist, rich fall cake

Bibi Hutchings, a lifelong Southerner, lives along a quiet coastal Alabama bay with her cat, Zulu, and husband, Tom. She writes about the magical way food evokes memories, instantly bringing you back to the people, places and experiences of your life. Her stories take you all around the South and are accompanied with tried-and-true recipes that are destined to become a part of your memory-making as you share them with your friends and family.

The best pralines I have ever eaten were in New Orleans, from a shop near the French Market called Aunt Sally’s, a family-owned, women-led company that has been hand-pouring French Creole-style pralines since 1935. Located on Decatur Street, just a few steps from Cafe du Monde, it is impossible to pass by the storefront.

The aroma of their cookie-like confections draws you in and pulls you right through the door. Made with all locally-sourced ingredients, their pralines are rich with cream and loaded with pecans and literally melt in your mouth. Never saccharine-sweet or grainy as some pralines can be, Aunt Sally’s sets the bar to measure all the rest, and Praline Apple Cake captures the spirit of their perfection. It is the cake version of Aunt Sally’s pralines.