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Apple Tea Cake
Prep Time
10
minutes
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Cook Time
55
minutes
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Cooling Time
10
minutes
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Total Time
1
hour
hr
15
minutes
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Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
American
Servings:
16
servings
Ingredients
Cake
▢
¾
cup
shortening
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1 ½
cups
sugar
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2
eggs
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2 ½
cups
flour
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1
teaspoon
baking soda
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¾
teaspoon
salt
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¾
teaspoon
cinnamon
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¾
cup
warm prepared coffee
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2
cups
diced apples
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½
cup
walnuts
-
chopped
Topping
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⅓
cup
brown sugar
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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.
Notes
Add Vanilla Extract:
a tsp vanilla extract makes a wonderful addition to this cake.
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 taste to finish the cake.
Replace:
Pear slices can use 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.