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“Apple Mortgage Cake” is based on a true story about Angela Logan and her struggles in life. It is not easy raising three teen age boys, managing a household and volunteering to help others. Angela is a kind person and always believes in aiding others in their problems to help them start a new life. But when she falls into hard times, her pride gets in the way of asking or letting others help her.

This is an encouraging movie that will help many families in today’s society. There are many people in the world today that find themselves in the same situation as Angela, and she shows how one can survive by using an idea that may be crazy to some but turns both her and her family’s life around. Who knew that a little cake could bring them a way to improve their lives.

This is truly a family film that gives a wonderful message of encouragement, faith, and helping others. We are proud to award this presentation the Dove “Family-Approved” Seal for all ages.

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Kimberly Elise (Angela Logan) Kevin Hanchard (Melvin George) Stephan James (William Logan) Lamar Johnson (Nicholas Logan) A.J. Saudin (Marcus Logan) Joanne Boland (Leann Dobbs) Gabrielle Miller (Gloria Grand) Barry Flatman (Josh Kaye) Paul De La Rosa (Pastor) Peter Williams (Bobby Logan)

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2009. Angela Logan has always struggled financially, but has always managed to pull through. Long having divorced her deadbeat ex-husband Bobby, she has sole custody of their three now mid- to late-teenaged sons. She has not dated in five years in her focus on the boys and her doubt in her own self, especially in this aspect of her life. She and the boys live in what was Angela's grandmother's house in Teaneck, New Jersey. One problem after another, which includes the house needing major repairs, has led to Angela having taken out a mortgage on the house. But she is getting little work as a substitute teacher - which she admits is not her dream job - while she still has to feed the growing boys. She has even forgone certain luxuries in life, such as fixing what is her broken down car and giving up her cell phone, to save money. These items in combination still have both a city inspector on her case about the incomplete work on the house, and the bank within ten days of foreclosing unless she can come up with $4,000. Despite these financial issues, Angela actively volunteers her time, most specifically at a mission in a job of assisting homeless women get back on their feet by providing them with resume writing and job interview skills. She volunteers as she believes in the strength of community, and that she and the boys are still more blessed than the women she helps. On top of these issues, fifteen year old Nicholas, her youngest, is at a rebellious stage of his life, much of his rebellion against her. To deal with the immediate financial problem of the $4,000, Angela, with the support of the boys and her closest friends, decides to sell apple cakes, famous within her social circle, at $40 a cake, meaning an average of ten cakes a day over those ten days, the campaign she coins her apple mortgage cake sale. But with every step forward she is able to make in the campaign, something or someone seems to take her one step back from reaching the finish line. One of those friends by her side is Melvin George, a comedian with a modicum of success who she dated ten years ago and who recently reentered her life in wanting to be that significant person in her life. Angela succeeding in this ten day task and allowing Melvin into her life seem largely to be dependent upon she having faith in herself, such faith she seems so easily to have in others but not in herself.

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• 2009. Angela Logan has always struggled financially, but has always managed to pull through. Long having divorced her deadbeat ex-husband Bobby, she has sole custody of their three now mid- to late-teenaged sons. She has not dated in five years in her focus on the boys and her doubt in her own self, especially in this aspect of her life. She and the boys live in what was Angela's grandmother's house in Teaneck, New Jersey. One problem after another, which includes the house needing major repairs, has led to Angela having taken out a mortgage on the house. But she is getting little work as a substitute teacher - which she admits is not her dream job - while she still has to feed the growing boys. She has even forgone certain luxuries in life, such as fixing what is her broken down car and giving up her cell phone, to save money. These items in combination still have both a city inspector on her case about the incomplete work on the house, and the bank within ten days of foreclosing unless she can come up with $4,000. Despite these financial issues, Angela actively volunteers her time, most specifically at a mission in a job of assisting homeless women get back on their feet by providing them with resume writing and job interview skills. She volunteers as she believes in the strength of community, and that she and the boys are still more blessed than the women she helps. On top of these issues, fifteen year old Nicholas, her youngest, is at a rebellious stage of his life, much of his rebellion against her. To deal with the immediate financial problem of the $4,000, Angela, with the support of the boys and her closest friends, decides to sell apple cakes, famous within her social circle, at $40 a cake, meaning an average of ten cakes a day over those ten days, the campaign she coins her apple mortgage cake sale. But with every step forward she is able to make in the campaign, something or someone seems to take her one step back from reaching the finish line. One of those friends by her side is Melvin George, a comedian with a modicum of success who she dated ten years ago and who recently reentered her life in wanting to be that significant person in her life. Angela succeeding in this ten day task and allowing Melvin into her life seem largely to be dependent upon she having faith in herself, such faith she seems so easily to have in others but not in herself. — Huggo
• Based on a True story. As a little girl Angela Morgan would sit in her Grandmothers kitchen and help her make tasty apple cinnamon cakes. Fast forward Angela his now a divorced single mother who is trying to raise three boy, and only working part time jobs, and volunteering at a center for battered women. The house left to her by her grandmother is in terrible shape due to a bad contractor and the city has given her 10 days to pay the $4000 back taxes or they are going to be homeless. He youngest son as be suspended for bringing a knife to school What can she do? He son suggest that she bake 100 cakes and sells them at $40 each. Can she do it? It sounds simple. But with a little help from a friend, and a lot of prayers, anything can happen.

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Apple Mortgage Cake is the real thing

Apple Mortgage Cake is an older film (2014) streaming on Prime Video. It’s the true story of how a woman saved her home by baking cakes – lots of cakes!

Apple Mortgage Cake is the story of Angela Logan (Kimberly Elise). She was in danger of losing her home, a home that had been in her family for 3 generations. She had 3 sons: William ( Stephan James ), Nicholas (Lamar Johnson), and Marcus (A.J. Saudin).

Angela worked to help others, her sons’ school, and her community. But she couldn’t find the cash to keep the mortgage paid up.

An old friend, Melvin George ( Kevin Hanchard ), showed up one day. While taking with Melvin and her boys, Angela commented that the only thing she was really good at was baking cakes. They seized on the idea and put plans in motion for her to try to sell enough cakes to make the mortgage money.

She started baking and selling. She made the news and orders came flooding in. It didn’t go smoothly. With some help and a lot of hard work, each problem was solved as it came up. This inspiring story is based on a real woman and her real apple cakes. She now has her own bakery in Teaneck, NJ.

Stories about real people who overcome seemingly insurmountable problems are always a pleasure to watch, and this film is no exception.

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2014 Directed by Michael M. Scott

The inspirational true story of a woman who decides to bake 100 apple cakes and sell them at $40 each in order to save her home – and how this idea completely changes her and her family.

Kimberly Elise A.J. Saudin Stephan James Lamar Johnson Kevin Hanchard Gabrielle Miller Paul De La Rosa Catherine Disher Peter Williams Angela Logan Siobhan Murphy Barry Flatman Darlene Cooke Millie Davis

Director Director

Michael M. Scott

Producers Producers

Robert Lee Jonathan Schwartz

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Ira Pincus John Moranyniss

Writer Writer

Jamie Pachino

Editor Editor

Charlotte Disher

Cinematography Cinematography

Boris Mojsovski

Production Design Production Design

Brian Verhoog

Composer Composer

Philip Giffin

Costume Design Costume Design

Julianna Clarke

Makeup Makeup

Raquel Atienza

Hairstyling Hairstyling

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Review by Ciara ★★

i’m sorry but £40 for apple cake... wild

Review by watchacid

at this moment, in my life, I can honestly say that watching this “movie” was absolutely one-hundred percent unnecessary....  but, it is also what happened to be on our television as I tended to the garden......

I felt nothing.

I sympathized with the weeds I was collecting more than any character or any emotion that was on display in this “movie”.  

sorry, everyone involved.

Review by holas79 ★★½

Scavenger Hunt #93 - December 2022 Prompt 13. Watch a movie with baking or an important baked good.

Well this was surprisingly solid, even though it never breaks free from it's made for TV trappings - the score and the dialogue being the main handicaps. The story worked well and the actors were, in the main, believable.

Review by ani ★★★

Cute n down to earth. Nice time passer, i watched with mom and grandma.

Review by zainab ★

I dunno what happened bro ... at least she made the cash in the end tho good for her

Review by ditzico ★½

Capitalist propaganda

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praying for my mom to pick better movies

Review by mrsmae54 ★★★

Something to pass the time. Believe in yourself and “it takes a village” lifetime model. It was cute.

Review by Dave Courtney ★★

Pretty good for a lifetime movie.

I'm not sure if it actually is a lifetime movie, but it definitely feels like one. So as long as you know what you are in for, there are a few smiles and an uplifting true story to mine from the very middle of the road, melodramatic formula.

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Review by aliceaisgill ★★

$40 for a cake lmao

Review by Scott Goodwin ★½

Somehow the first film I’ve watched since lockdown officially started in the UK... Mum chose it randomly for some light entertainment with dinner (since new TV shows have dried up) I was half paying attention.

The story is very sweet and I always appreciate films based on remarkable true stories. It is definitely a feel-good film. It suffers terribly from stiff and wooden dialogue however and many, many clichés. It also contains a pet peeve of mine: when characters see someone from their past and say “John? John Johnston??” nobody calls another person by their full name unless you’re in a waiting room or perhaps told off by a parent. It also manages to set itself up for extremely predictable…

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Apple Mortgage Cake (2014)

Genre: drama, duration: 87 minuten, alternative title: le gâteau de la dernière chance, country: canada, directed by: michael m. scott, stars: kimberly elise , kevin hanchard and stephan james, imdb score: 6,4  (535), releasedate: 16 may 2014.

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Angela Logan is a single mother with three teenage boys, a completely chaotic life and a house on the verge of collapse. It is the same house where she sat in the kitchen as a child and listened to her grandmother's stories about the joy of baking. With the basement flooded, the roof about to collapse, a mountain of debt and ten days to pay her mortgage and taxes, Angela risks it all and decides to sell her apple pies to save her family and home.

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Apple Mortgage Cake Recipe: Taste the Sweet Victory of Homeownership

Posted: May 21, 2023 · Last updated: May 21, 2023 · by Shai Cohen · This post may contain affiliate links

Heroes don't always wear capes. Some would simply bake a hundred apple cakes, sell them for $40 each to pay their mortgage and they hold on to their house, as evident in our Apple Mortgage cake recipe, which gained popularity due to the movie with the same name. The American dream is still alive and kicking.

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While it’s true that the original story provides a taste to our Apple Mortgage cake recipe, we must admit that the spices, raisins, and walnuts, combined with a savory caramel glaze might play a role too. Although our hero sold those for $40 a piece, it actually costs much less than that to make.

Ingredients

Instructions, substitutions, apple mortgage cake recipe, 1. the cake.

• All-purpose flour — 3 cups
• Cinnamon — 1 tsp.
• Nutmeg — ½ tsp.
• Sugar — 2 cups
• Walnuts — 1 cup, chopped
• Eggs — 3 pcs.
• Salt — ½ tsp.
• Apples — 3 cups, peeled and diced
• Raisins — 1 cup
• Vanilla extract — 1 tsp.
• Cooking oil — 1 cup
• Baking soda — 1 tsp.

2. The glaze

• Milk — ¼ cup
• Brown sugar — ½ cup
• Butter — ½ cup

• Set your oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine the flour, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, and cinnamon in a mixing bowl. Stir well.
• Using another mixing bowl, combine the sugar, oil, vanilla extract, and eggs. Stir until smooth.
• Combine the dry and the wet mixtures in a single bowl.
• Make sure to stir until smooth.
• Add the apples, raisins, and chopped walnuts.
• Transfer the batter to a lightly greased baking pan.
• Bake for 45 minutes.
• In the meantime, melt the butter in a pan.
• Add the milk and brown sugar.
• Bring them to a boil and stir for two minutes.
• Remove from the heat. Add the vanilla extract.
• Once your cake is baked, give it ten minutes to cool down. Then, pour the caramel glaze mixture over the cake.
• Walnuts — Chopped walnuts could easily be replaced with any other kind of nuts that suit your taste better. Almonds and hazelnuts are obviously good candidates, and you can give cashews a try as well.
• Raisins — Walnuts and raisins make an iconic pair in this Apple Mortgage cake recipe, and we’d recommend you stick with those. If that’s not an option, you can replace raisins with dried cranberries or dried cherries. Lastly, dried currants would be fine as well.
• Cinnamon and nutmeg — It’s true that this Apple Mortgage cake tastes just like the ones your grandma used to make for you, and the combination of cinnamon and nutmeg plays a huge part in this. Those two could be replaced with Allspice, which actually includes both cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Make it vegan — Our Apple Mortgage cake recipe could easily be made vegan with just a few changes. When it comes to eggs, a quarter cup of yogurt would do the job of a single egg as a binder. The same goes for mashed bananas as well. Milk can be replaced by any non-dairy milk. You can use coconut oil instead of butter in the recipe.
• Make it R-rated — If you’re after something even more exciting, you might want to add some rum into the mix. Simply add three tablespoons of rum, preferably dark rum, into your wet batter and simply proceed.

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• 2 mixing bowls
• 9x13 baking pan
• Instead, transfer the leftover cake into an airtight container.
• Once stored in your fridge, the leftover Apple Mortgage cake will last for three days.
• Once frozen, the leftovers will last for two months.
• The ingredients — When it comes to the ingredients, we would recommend you stick with ingredients at room temperature. They will bond much easier, resulting in a smoother batter with a better texture.
• The apples — Admittedly, you would be fine using any apple you have, when it comes to our Apple Mortgage cake recipe. Still, you might be better off using tart ones. The texture would be much better.

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• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• ½ tsp. nutmeg
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup walnuts
• 3 pcs. eggs
• ½ tsp. salt
• 3 cups apples peeled and diced
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 cup cooking oil
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• ¼ cup milk
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup butter

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Opening Shot: Hannah Swensen (Alison Sweeney) unloads her car in front of the Lake Eden Community College, where she’s started teaching a college cooking class. But unbeknownst to her, someone is watching her, taking photos of her every move. As she finished unloading the car, she notices that someone has pierced an apple with a knife and left it for her in the backseat.

The Gist: Just to get things out of the way, the person surveilling Hannah in the movie’s opening scene is not some nefarious criminal, it’s Hannah’s own mother, Delores (Barbara Niven). Delores informs Hannah that she’s finally found her calling: she’s going to be a private detective. Hannah, too, has branched out professionally, because on top of her duties running her bakery, she’s been teaching a baking course at the local college. She’s partnered with one of the English professors, Bradford Ramsey (Oliver Rice), and has created a lesson plan where her class will bake a dessert inspired by a novel, when all of a sudden the gas burner she and Bradford are standing near explodes into a fireball.

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What Shows Will It Remind You Of? The Hannah Swensen mysteries — see also Carrot Cake Murder and A Zest For Death — are a particular kind of cozy mystery that make ubiquitous small-town murders seem quaint and charming. To use a baking metaphor, it’s got a dash of Murder, She Wrote , well-mixed with the quirkiness of British faves Midsomer Murders and Pie In The Sky .

Our Take: This latest installment in the franchise formerly known as Murder, She Baked harnesses all the elements that have made past installments so successful. Sweeney and her supporting cast have an easy familiarity in their roles, whether it’s the relationship she has with her mother and sisters or the new flirtation she has with her old friend Norman (Gabriel Hogan), or the professional rapport she has with police detective Lonnie (Daylin Willis), the universe of Lake Eden feels well-established. What’s another small-town murder to these people anyway?

While there are your typical red herrings and classic moments of Hannah snooping and sneaking around where she shouldn’t be, that’s about as dangerous as this movie gets. Even as the prime suspect holds Hannah at gunpoint in the final moments of the film, there’s never a doubt that Hannah will exit unscathed, and that’s the point of the cozy mystery: we watch explicitly for the fact that. Aside from the unlucky murder victim, no harm will come to those involved in the making of this film; justice will prevail and Hannah will go back to flouring her bread board.

Long-term fans of the series will notice the differences from past films, specifically the fact that Hannah’s ex, Mike, has exited the series, making way for other flirtations, but beyond that, Sweeney, who wrote the script in addition to starring in it, has capably adapted this story and has remained true to the series. She knows what her audience expects, and she’s delivered.

Parting Shot: Hannah, her sisters, and her mom gather in her kitchen for some self-congratulatory drinks after solving the case. Delores then notices that someone has pinged her phone and she announces that she has a new client request for her P.I. business. That calls for a toast.

Performance Worth Watching: Victor Webster, who plays the Lake Eden prosecutor Chad Norton, might give Hannah’s love life a jolt now that her old boyfriend Mike (Cameron Mathison, who doesn’t appear in this film at all) has moved to Virginia for a new job at the FBI. Though there’s no real romance between the two yet, it’s obvious that he’s being positioned as a new love interest.

Memorable Dialogue: In a meta nod to this franchise’s source material, Hannah tells her baking students that many authors use food as an allegory in their novels, to which one of her students, Pam, replies, “There’s a great set of mysteries that are all about different desserts.” And you’re watching one of them!

Our Call: STREAM IT! One Bad Apple is the perfect rainy-day comfort watch that will keep you entertained with its familiar cast of characters and engaging (if not terribly surprising) mystery.

Liz Kocan is a pop culture writer living in Massachusetts. Her biggest claim to fame is the time she won on the game show Chain Reaction .

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