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Ingredients
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6 cups peeled thinly sliced apples (about 3 large apples or 6 small apples)
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1 cup sugar
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4 teaspoons cinnamon
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3 cups flour, sifted
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1 tablespoon baking powder
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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4 large eggs
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1 1/2 cups sugar
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1/2 cup light brown sugar
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1 cup oil
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1/2 cup orange juice
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2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
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1 cup chopped walnuts or 1 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Mix apple slices with cinnamon and 1 cup sugar; set aside.
- Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl; set aside.
- Beat eggs with 1 1/2 cups sugar and light brown sugar.
- Alternately add the dry ingredients and the oil to the wet ingredients, then add the orange juice and lastly the vanilla and beat for 1 minute.
- Pour 1/3rd of the batter into a greased and floured tube pan.
- Layer 1/3rd of the apple slices and nuts over the batter.
- Repeat with layer of batter, then apples and nuts, then batter, then final layer of apples and nuts.
- Drizzle the cake with a bit of the remaining cinnamon-sugar "syrup" from the apple bowl.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 1 1/4 hours or until tester comes out clean.
- Allow cake to cool in pan on wire rack for 20-25 minutes, then turn cake out onto wire rack to cool completely.