Apple Cake. One of my favorite desserts.
Okay… all desserts are my favorite desserts and the one I’m eating at the moment is my most favorite dessert. I just love dessert. I’ll pass up the whole buffet and head straight to the sweets table.
And I’m not particular. I hold a bowl of rice pudding to the same high esteem as a homemade apple pie or a gooey 6-layer cream cake. Or a cookie. Or a tart lemon tart.
I think my only real criterion is that they be hand-crafted. Yes, there are lots of store-bought and/or packaged products out there and not all of them are engineered with ingredients whose sole purpose is to trick our taste buds into thinking we’re eating something good. But I really do prefer my desserts – and food in general – to be real.
Enter the Apple Cake.
It’s beauty is in its simplicity. It’s a fantastic dessert and it’s a wonderful Sunday Morning Coffee Cake. You seriously get to have your cake and eat it, too.
Apple Cake
- 3 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup oil
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 4 tsp sugar
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 5 large apples
Preheat oven to 350°. Peel and cut apples into small chunks. Add 4 tsp sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon and stir together.
Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and set aside.
Beat together eggs, OJ & vanilla. Add oil, mix in flour mixture.
In a well-greased tube pan, pour alternate layers of batter and apples. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top.
Bake at 350° for 1 1/2 hours or until cake tests done.
Cool before slicing.
Enjoy!