Cinnamon Apple Cake
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Serves: 8
 
Try this yummy cinnamon apple cake with your next special meal.
You'll need...
  • 1½ cups sugar
  • 1 cup oil or melted butter
  • 4 eggs
  • 3 cups flour
  • 2½ teaspoons vanilla
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • ¼ cup orange juice
  • 4 or 5 apples, peeled and sliced about ⅛" thick
  • FOR CINNAMON SUGAR:
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
Here's what to do...
  1. Preheat oven to 375°
  2. Beat 1½ cups sugar with oil, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl.
  3. In a medium bowl, combine flour and baking powder.
  4. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture, along with orange juice.
  5. Mix 3 tablespoons sugar and 2 teaspoons cinnamon in a small bowl to make the cinnamon sugar.
  6. Grease a tube pan (angel food cake pan) with butter.
  7. For a cinnamon-y crust, you can sprinkle a little of the cinnamon sugar on the sides, bottom and center of the buttered pan. Otherwise, lightly sprinkle some flour on the butter.
  8. Pour ⅓ of the batter into the bottom of the pan and gently spread with a rubber spatula.
  9. Place a layer of apples on top of the batter then sprinkle apples with ⅓ of the cinnamon sugar.
  10. Repeat twice, for a total of three times, ending with a layer of apples and cinnamon sugar.
  11. Bake in 375° oven for an hour.
  12. Check with a cake tester, toothpick or thin knife. When the implement comes out clean the cake is ready.
  13. Cool and serve by itself, or with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Recipe by blossomsandposies.com at https://blossomsandposies.com/blog/cinnamon-apple-cake/