Walnut-apple cake - country living

10 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2¼ cup Unsifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons Baking soda
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon Salt (opt.)
1 cup Lightly packed light-brown sugar
½ cup Olive oil
1½ cup Unsweetened applesauce
2 Small Granny Smith or other baking apples, cored and sliced
Walnut Topping (recipe follows)

Directions

1. Grease 9-inch springform pan; set aside. In small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt, if desired. Heat oven to 325'F.

2. In large bowl, with electric mixer, beat brown sugar, oil, and applesauce until well mixed. Beat in flour mixture until smooth. Spoon batter into greased pan. Arrange apple slices in circles, slightly overlapping, over the batter. Cover top of pan with aluminum foil.

3. Bake cake 55 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare Walnut Topping. Sprinkle top- ping over hot cake and return to oven. Continue to bake cake covered 20 to 25 minutes more or until cake tester in- serted in the center of cake comes out clean. Remove foil and cool cake in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove rim from pan; cool cake completely.

Walnut Topping: In 1-quart saucepan, heat ¼ C olive oil. Add ⅔ C coarsely chopped walnuts; fry walnuts until golden brown. Stir in ⅓ C sugar, and 1 T all-purpose flour until well mixed and remove from heat.

Country Living/Nov/90 Scanned & fixed by DP & GG

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