I had some macs getting old, so looked up a recipe to use them. The reviews on this cake were wonderful.
The things that I did differently from the original were:
Here's the link to the original: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/09/moms-apple-cake/
Here's what I did:
Lee's Macintosh Apple Cake
The apples:
6 McIntosh apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
1 tablespoon cinnamon
5 tablespoons sugar
about a cup of chopped pecans
Dry ingredients:
2 3/4 cups flour, sifted
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 T cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
Wet ingredients:
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Heavily grease a tube pan.
Toss apples in a bowl with cinnamon, sugar and nuts, and set aside.
Stir together flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large mixing bowl.
In a separate bowl (I used my KitchenAid mixer) whisk together oil, orange juice, sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each.
Add dry ingredients to wet, a little at a time. Scrape down the bowl to ensure all ingredients are incorporated.
Pour half of batter into prepared pan. Spread half of apples over it. Sprinkle half of the nuts. Pour the remaining batter over the apples and arrange the remaining apples and nuts on top.
Bake for about 1 1/2 hours, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool completely before running knife between cake and pan, and unmolding onto a platter.
Reviewers said that the cake gets moister a day or two after it's made.
The things that I did differently from the original were:
- I added the eggs to the wet ingredients in my mixer, then added the dry ingredients a little at a time to the wets (didn't make sense the other way around, the way the original recipe was posted).
- I added 1T. cinnamon to the batter, and 1T. to the apples
- I substituted pecans for walnuts, and added them to the apples layers
Here's the link to the original: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/09/moms-apple-cake/
Here's what I did:
Lee's Macintosh Apple Cake
The apples:
6 McIntosh apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
1 tablespoon cinnamon
5 tablespoons sugar
about a cup of chopped pecans
Dry ingredients:
2 3/4 cups flour, sifted
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 T cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
Wet ingredients:
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Heavily grease a tube pan.
Toss apples in a bowl with cinnamon, sugar and nuts, and set aside.
Stir together flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large mixing bowl.
In a separate bowl (I used my KitchenAid mixer) whisk together oil, orange juice, sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each.
Add dry ingredients to wet, a little at a time. Scrape down the bowl to ensure all ingredients are incorporated.
Pour half of batter into prepared pan. Spread half of apples over it. Sprinkle half of the nuts. Pour the remaining batter over the apples and arrange the remaining apples and nuts on top.
Bake for about 1 1/2 hours, or until a tester comes out clean. Cool completely before running knife between cake and pan, and unmolding onto a platter.
Reviewers said that the cake gets moister a day or two after it's made.
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