Blue-ribbon apple cake

16 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 cups All-purpose flour
2¼ cup Sugar; divided
1 tablespoon Baking powder
½ teaspoon Salt
4 Eggs
1 cup Vegetable oil
⅓ cup Orange juice
2½ teaspoon Vanilla extract
4 mediums Baking apples; peeled and thinly sliced
2 teaspoons Ground cinnamon
Confectioners' sugar

Directions

In a mixing bowl, combine flour, 2 cups sugar, baking powder and salt.

Combine eggs, oil, orange juice and vanilla; add to flour mixture and mix well. In a bowl, toss apples with cinnamon and remaining sugar. Spread a third of the batter into a greased 10-in tube pan. Top with half the apples. Repeat layers. Carefully spread remaining batter over apples. Bake at 350 for 55-65 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack; cool. Dust with confectioners' sugar.

Recipe by: Jennie Wilburn (ToH Oct/Nov 96) Posted to EAT-L Digest by Sean Coate <swcoate@...> on Dec 16, 1997

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