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Recipe: Big Mama’s Apple Cake
Description
Named for “Apple Hunter” Tom Brown’s wife’s grandmother, this apple-packed cake is surprisingly fragile. Always the engineer, Brown says that slipping a greased, foil-covered cardboard roll over the tube pan’s center tube before unmolding the cooled cake will help keep it intact until you can get it to the cake plate.
Ingredients
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- 3 cups tart apples
- 1 1/4 cups oil
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
- 1 teaspoon allspice
Instructions
- Peel and chop the apples fine; set aside.
- Pour the oil, sugar, and eggs in a bowl and beat well.
- Sift the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and spices together.
- Add the flour mixture to the creamed mix, and add the vanilla.
- Fold in apples and nuts, and pour into a tube pan.
- Bake in a 350°F oven for one hour or until a toothpick comes out clean.
