Mom's Apple Cake Recipe

I was excited to receive an apple recipe today from Rachael. We have a lot of apples so tonight when I got home from work I decided to make the apple cake rather than make applesauce again (last night I make six jars of applesauce). Once the cake came out of the oven and cooled a little, I couldn't resist trying a piece. It's delicious!!! Bob wanted a piece too, but he doesn't eat between meals so he said he'd have a piece for breakfast. Funny, I'll have one for breakfast too!!!

Mom's Apple Cake

6 apples, I used McIntosh apples

1 T cinnamon

5 T sugar

2 3/4 cups flour

1 T baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 cup vegetable oil

2 cups sugar

1/4 cup orange juice

2 1/2 tsp vanilla

4 eggs

1 cup walnuts, chopped

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a tube pan. Peel, core and chop apples into chunks. Toss with cinnamon and sugar and set aside.

Stir together flour, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, orange juice, sugar and vanilla. Mix 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 batter into 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.

I am changing the name of this cake to Rachael's Apple Cake just because she's the one that discovered it!!!