Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Apple cake


It's fantastic easy and delicious cake ever....!! I saw this recipe on food network by Paula deen.You can make it without a mixer...Here's the recipe..

Ingredients

Cake:

  • Butter, for greasing pan
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup orange juice
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 3 cups peeled and finely chopped apples, i used gala apples
  • 1 cup shredded coconut
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts

Sauce:

  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Directions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Generously grease a pan.
For the cake: in a large bowl, combine the sugar, eggs, oil, orange juice, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and vanilla extract; and mix well. Fold apples, coconut, and walnuts into batter.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the middle of pan comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours. The time varies according to type of pan just keep eye on cake after 1 hr.
Shortly before the cake is done, make the sauce: Melt the butter in a large saucepan, stir in the sugar, buttermilk, and baking soda, and bring to a good rolling boil, stirring constantly. Boil for 1 minute. Pour the sauce over the hot cake in the pan as soon as you remove it from the oven. Let stand 1 hour, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.
This cake test equally good with or without sauce. Yummy....you should give it a try...

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