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Apple Cake with Hot Caramel Sauce
Preheat oven to 350
Lightly grease and LIGHTLY flour a tube pan
The cake:
1/2 c pecans (or walnuts)
5 medium apples chopped ( to yield 2 1/2c) ( McIntosh or other firm cooking apples)
1/2 c butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 t baking soda
1/2 salt
1 t ground cinnamon
1 t ground nutmeg
1 c flour (you can add another 1/4 c)
The hot caramel sauce:
1/2 c butter
1 cup light or dark brown sugar
1/2 t salt
1 t vanilla extract
1/2 c evaporated milk
Brandy to taste
Cake:
Process nuts in a food process till nearly fine
Set aside
Peel apples, quarter and process until they are medium-coarse shards about the size of almonds.
Blend the butter and sugar in a mixer
Add egg to the above
Stir in the apples & nuts
Sift the dry ingredients together
Gently stir dry ingredients into the above mixture
The mixture will be thick.
Put mixture in the tube pan and bake 45-50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Cool in pan 10-15 minutes. Run a table knife around the sides and bottom of pan and turn cake onto plate.
Sauce:
Melt butter over LOW heat
Stir in sugar, salt, vanilla
Slowly add milk while stirring
When above is mixed turn heat off and add brandy
I like this best with the sauce served warm but you can serve it at room temperature. If you have left over sauce it's good on ice cream.
Apple Cake with Hot Caramel Sauce
Preheat oven to 350
Lightly grease and LIGHTLY flour a tube pan
The cake:
1/2 c pecans (or walnuts)
5 medium apples chopped ( to yield 2 1/2c) ( McIntosh or other firm cooking apples)
1/2 c butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 t baking soda
1/2 salt
1 t ground cinnamon
1 t ground nutmeg
1 c flour (you can add another 1/4 c)
The hot caramel sauce:
1/2 c butter
1 cup light or dark brown sugar
1/2 t salt
1 t vanilla extract
1/2 c evaporated milk
Brandy to taste
Cake:
Process nuts in a food process till nearly fine
Set aside
Peel apples, quarter and process until they are medium-coarse shards about the size of almonds.
Blend the butter and sugar in a mixer
Add egg to the above
Stir in the apples & nuts
Sift the dry ingredients together
Gently stir dry ingredients into the above mixture
The mixture will be thick.
Put mixture in the tube pan and bake 45-50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Cool in pan 10-15 minutes. Run a table knife around the sides and bottom of pan and turn cake onto plate.
Sauce:
Melt butter over LOW heat
Stir in sugar, salt, vanilla
Slowly add milk while stirring
When above is mixed turn heat off and add brandy
I like this best with the sauce served warm but you can serve it at room temperature. If you have left over sauce it's good on ice cream.