Apple Cake Recipes

This one is from Aunt Mary Slattery

Ingredients

• 4 C chopped apples
• 1 C chopped nuts
• 2 C sugar
• 3 C flour
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 C vegetable oil
• 2 eggs (well beaten)
• 1 tsp vanilla

Directions

1. Mix apples, nuts, and sugar.
2. Let stand one hour, stirring often so mixture makes its own juice.
3. Add all the dry ingredients to apple mixture.
4. Mix oil, vanilla, and eggs together and add to apple mixture.  Mix by hand.
5. Pour into greased and floured tube pan.  
6. Bake at 325 deg. for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours.

This one is from the Smitten Kitchen Website.   https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/09/moms-apple-cake/

Ingredients

For the apples

• 6 apples
• 1 T cinnamon
• 5 T sugar

For the cake

• 2 3/4 C flour
• 1 T baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 C oil, melted butter also works
• 2 C sugar
• 1/4 C orange juice
• 2 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 1 C walnuts

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350 deg.  Grease a tube pan.  Peel, core and chop apples into 1" chunks.  Toss with cinnamon and 5 tablespoons sugar and set aside.
2. Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl.  In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, orange juice, sugar, vanilla and eggs.  
3. Mix wet ingredients into dry ones.
4. Pour half of batter into prepared pan.  Spread half of apples (and their juices) over it.  Pour the remaining batter over the apples and arrange the remaining apples on top.  
5. Bake at 350 deg. for 1 1/2 hours or until a tester comes out clean.

Cool completely before running knife between cake and pan, and unfolding onto a platter.

The cake is great the first day, but absolutely glorious and pudding-like on the days that follow.  Keep it room temperature covered with foil.

**Tip:  the apples love to hide uncooked pockets of batter, especially near the top.  Make sure your testing skewer or toothpick goes not just all the way down to the bottom, but does a shallow dip below the top layer of apples to make sure it comes out batter-free.  Should your cake be browning too fast, before the center is baked through, cover it with foil for all the last few minutes in the oven.  

Berkeley and Seattle, Summer 2016

Toured Google but only on the outside with Nick's friend, Mike D'Andrea.

Ate at Vik's Chaat, Indian street food.  My cousin, Yosh (Alan) Sakasegawa, picked us up.

Then went shopping at the Berkeley Bowl - very fresh produce and such a variety!

 Nick's way cool clothes spinner.

 Bored out of our gourd while waiting for flight to depart to Seattle :)

 Puget Sound.

 Toulouse Petit Kitchen and Lounge.  Cajun and Creole in Queen Anne, Seattle.