Category
Yummy Dessert
Author:
Smitten Kitchen
Apples were plentiful at the Farmers Markets. I had so many apples I did not know what to do with them! I made apple sauce, apple kuchen, apple crisp and then I saw the recipe for Mom’s Apple Cake. It looked delicious so I decided to give it a try!
Ingredients
6 apples - I used Granny Smiths and Empire Apples
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
5 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 3/4 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon fine sea or table salt
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 large eggs
For the apples
For the cake
Directions
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a tube pan. Peel, core and chop apples into 1-inch chunks. Toss with cinnamon and 5 tablespoons sugar and set aside.
Stir together flour, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, orange juice, sugar, vanilla and eggs.
Mix wet ingredients into dry ones; scrape down the bowl to ensure all ingredients are incorporated.
Pour half of batter into prepared pan. Spread half of apples (and their juices) over it.
Pour the remaining batter over the apples and arrange the remaining apples on top.
Bake for about 1 1/2 hours, or until a tester comes out clean.*
Cool completely before running the knife between cake and pan, and unmolding onto a platter.
Recipe Note
*Tip: The apples love to hide uncooked pockets of batter, especially near the top. Make sure your testing skewer or toothpick goes not just all the way down to the bottom, but also make sure there is a shallow dip below the top layer of apples to make sure it comes out batter-free. Should your cake be browning too fast before the center is baked through, cover it with foil for all but the last few minutes in the oven.
Also, this cake is awesome on the first day but absolutely glorious and pudding-like on the days that follow, so feel free to get an early start on it. I keep it at room temperature covered with foil.