Here is one of my favorite cakes to make this time of year.....or any time of year.
Apple Bundt Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze
3 medium apples
1 Tb sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tb baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 c vegetable oil (what ever kind you prefer)
1/2 c plain apple sauce
1/4 c orange juice
2 1/2 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
1 c chopped walnuts or pecans
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F, and lightly grease a bundt cake pan. Set aside.
Peel, core and dice two of the apples.
Core and dice the third apple. I love the color and texture this gives, but if you have an irrational aversion to apple peels, go ahead and peel that one too. Place apples in a medium sized mixing bowl. Add the Tb sugar and the first 1st of cinnamon. Toss to coat.
Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar.
In another medium mixing bowl, combine the eggs, oil, apple sauce, orange juice and vanilla. Mix into the flour mixture until just combine. This will be a thick batter.
Stir in nuts.
Now, in your cake pan, spread 1/3 of the cake batter.
Cover it with 1/2 of the apples.
Resist the urge to eat the apple chunks.
It's hard, but you can do it!
Repeat, and finish with the last of the batter.
Bake the cake for 55-65 minutes, or until it tests done with a toothpick. Cool for a few minutes in the pan, and then turn out onto a platter/plate.
While it is cooling, you can make the glaze.
In a small saucepan, combine:
1/4 c brown sugar
1/4 c butter
1/4 c white sugar
1/4 c cream, half and half, or milk
Stir over medium-low heat until all melted and "happy" (as Emeril says)then stir in
1 1/2 tsp vanilla.
You will then drizzle this over the warm cake. I find this easiest if I pour the glaze into a glass measuring cup with a pour spout.
Mmmmmmm.....these are the kinds of things that make me happy! Enjoy this cake warm or room temp - with or without ice cream. I've personally never been much of a cake & ice cream person. Let the cake stand on its own I say. Unless it is something like fudge pudding cake, something made to be eaten with ice cream.
Enjoy!
Printable Version:
Apple Bundt Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze
3 medium apples
1 Tb sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tb baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 c vegetable oil (what ever kind you prefer)
1/2 c plain apple sauce
1/4 c orange juice
2 1/2 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
1 c chopped walnuts or pecans
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F, and lightly grease a bundt cake pan.
Set aside.
Peel, core and dice two of the apples.
Core and dice the third apple.
Put apples in a medium mixing bowl, add Tb sugar and 1st tsp of cinnamon. Toss to coat.
Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar.
In another medium mixing bowl, combine the eggs, oil, apple sauce, orange juice and vanilla. Mix into the flour mixture until just combine. This will be a thick batter.
Stir in nuts.
Now, in your cake pan, spread 1/3 of the cake batter.
Cover it with 1/2 of the apples.
Repeat, and finish with the last of the batter.
Bake the cake for 55-65 minutes, or until it tests done with a toothpick. Cool for a few minutes in the pan, and then turn out onto a platter/plate.
Glaze:
In a small saucepan, combine:
1/4 c brown sugar
1/4 c butter
1/4 c white sugar
1/4 c cream, half and half, or milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
Stir first four ingredients over medium-low heat until all melted.
Stir in vanilla.
Drizzle over cake.
1 1/2 tsp vanilla.
Enjoy!
