Makes a 10" round cake
Ingredients:
- 6 apples (Deb uses McIntosh apples, I used Pink Ladies.)
- 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
- 2 c., plus 5 Tbsp. sugar
- 2-3/4 c. flour, sifted
- 1 Tbsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 c. vegetable oil
- 1/4 c. orange juice
- 2-1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 4 eggs
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a tube pan (or a springform pan, like I used) with butter and set aside.
- Peel, core and chop the apples into chunks. Toss with cinnamon and 5 Tbsp. sugar and set aside.
- Stir together the flour, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, orange juice, 2 c. sugar and vanilla. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ones, then add eggs, one at a time. Scrape down the bowl to ensure all ingredients are incorporated.
- Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan. Spread half of apples 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. (Mine took closer to 2 hours. I'm not sure if it's because I used a springform pan or what. I'd check at 1-1/4 hours, then at 15 minute increments thereafter. If your cake isn't done and the apples are starting to brown -- as you can see mine did in the photo below -- cover the pan loosely with tin foil for the remainder of the baking time.)
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