Santori (apple walnut cake)

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 cups Sugar
2 teaspoons Baking soda
1½ teaspoon Cinnamon
1¼ teaspoon Salt
¾ cup Vegetable oil
3 larges Eggs
1½ teaspoon Vanilla
4 larges Granny Smith apples
1½ cup Walnuts
3 cups All-purpose flour
Accompaniment: vanilla ice cream or
; whipped cream

Directions

Preheat oven to 300øF. and butter a 13- by 9- by 2-inch glass baking dish.

Into a large bowl sift together sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt and whisk in oil, eggs, and vanilla until smooth. Peel and core apples and slice about ¼ inch thick (there should be about 6 cups). Coarsely chop walnuts. Add apples and walnuts to batter and stir until coated well. Stir in flour just until combined well and spread batter evenly in baking dish.

Bake cake in middle of oven 1 hour and 40 to 50 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean, and cool completely in baking dish on a rack. Cake keeps, wrapped in plastic wrap and chilled, 1 week. Cut apple walnut cake into squares and serve at room temperature with ice cream or whipped cream.

Makes 1 cake 13 x 9 x 2. Gourmet September 1998 You Asked For It; Pasta & Co., Seattle WA

NOTES : This cake's unusual name was taken from the relative who originally passed down the recipe.

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