Friday, March 26, 2010

Apple Cake

I make this cake a few times in the Fall each year.  It is one of Josh’s and my mother’s favorite cakes I bake.  It makes the house smell utterly divine.  I use Paula Deen’s recipe.

Grandgirl’s Apple Cake

Cake:
Butter, for greasing pan
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
1/4 cup orange juice
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 cups peeled and finely chopped apples
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup chopped pecans

Sauce:
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Generously grease a bundt cake pan.

In a large bowl, combine the sugar, eggs, oil, orange juice, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and vanilla extract.  Mix well.

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Fold apples, coconut, and pecans into batter. The batter will be thick!  The first time I made this recipe I thought I had done something wrong because the batter was so thick.

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Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a tester comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours.  IMG_7408

Shortly before the cake is done, make the sauce. Melt the butter in a large saucepan.  Its a Paula Deen recipe.  There is always a stick of butter.

IMG_7411Stir in the sugar, buttermilk, and baking soda, and bring to a good rolling boil, stirring constantly. Boil for 1 minute. IMG_7413Pour the sauce over the hot cake in the pan as soon as you remove it from the oven.  IMG_7414IMG_7415 IMG_7417 IMG_7419

Let stand 1 hour, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.    IMG_7422 IMG_7423

Enjoy!

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Here is a our Fall corner of the house.  I had the girls pictures professionally taken a few years ago.  I pull them out each year around Halloween and just love looking at them.

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