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Fresh Apple Cake
This Fresh Apple Cake is a moist and tender fall dessert. With walnuts and cinnamon, this cake is ideal for serving with tea or warm apple cider.
Ingredients
Cake
- ¾ cup Shortening
- 1 ½ cups Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 2 ½ cups Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- ¾ teaspoon Salt
- ¾ teaspoon Cinnamon
- ¾ cup Coffee, Warm Prepared
- 2 cups Apples, diced
- ½ cup Walnuts, chopped
Topping
- ⅓ cup Brown Sugar
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream shortening, sugar and eggs together.
- Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Add dry ingredients to creamed shortening.
- Mix in coffee and fold in apples and walnuts. Pour batter into a greased and floured tube or bundt pan.
- Stir together topping ingredients and sprinkle evenly over top of cake batter.
- Bake for 45-55 minutes or until a cake tester, inserted to the center, comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes and remove cake from pan by inverting it onto a serving plate.
Christina's Notes
- Add Vanilla Extract: A teaspoon of vanilla extract makes a wonderful addition to this cake. You can also add some nutmeg, apple pie spice, or apple butter to the batter.
- Finish: Sprinkle a little powdered sugar, caster sugar, or demerara sugar.
- Variation tip: Toss the apple slices in a little lemon juice to keep them from getting brown.
- Alternate ingredient: Finish with a drizzle of cream to finish the cake.
- Replace: Pear slices can be used in place of apple.
- Different Pan: Use a spring form cake pan in place of a Bundt pan tin.
- Glaze: Make a great glaze with powdered sugar and cream or milk.
- Double the Recipe: If you're making a big cake, double the exact recipe measurements, or cut the recipe for a smaller cake.