Fresh Apple Cake

Here it is, Hot Wheels!

2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
3 cups peeled, finely chopped apple
1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. coconut extract (optional)
Brown Sugar Glaze

Beat first 3 ingredients at medium speed until creamy.

Combine flour and next 4 ingredients; add to sugar mixture, beating well. Stir in apple, pecans, and flavorings.

Pour batter into a greased and floured 12-cup Bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack. Drizzle Brown Sugar Glaze over cake.

Brown Sugar Glaze

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
2 Tbsp. evaporated milk

Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan; cook over high heat, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes or until sugar melts. Cool to lukewarm before pouring over cake.

Note: I poured the glaze on the cake while the cake was still warm so it would soak in.

Hope ya like it!

 

I'm seriously making a list to go to the store! I don't have coconut extract on hand lol. I do have some coconut though!

 

That's not actually a part of the printed recipe--I just threw it in and it was so good. I have kinda gotten addicted to coconut extract--it just seems to add something wonderful without really tasting like coconut. I add almond flavoring to a lot of stuff, too.

Actual coconut would probably be really good in it, too, come to think of it.

 

I love coconut, apple and nuts. Sounds like muffin making time!

 

I like cake.

 

Scrappy, you ever sub home dried apples for reg apples? They're just slightly tart.

My grandma used to make a seven(or eight) layer cake using dried apples that were to kill for and I ain't kidding. A real thin cake layer, a layer of apples, etc. Damn, and make fried apple pies using those dried apples? Kee-rist, just incredibly delicious.

 

Never have used dried apple in this cake, but they would probably work. I do make fried pies with dried apples like my grandmother did. OMG! You are so right--I can literally eat those until I explode! Therefore, I don't make them too often as it is too hard on the old will power.

 

is this cake dangerous?

 

Hope you enjoy them! Something good to do when you're snowed in.