Fall for Apples! Try Martie's Caramel Apple Cake
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:41AM My Mom was a wonderful pie baker but rarely made cakes... she had a fantastic pound cake and she occasionally made this Apple Dapple cake... a favorite of ours for an after school treat. All week, I've been working on recipes with apples and so I dug out her old recipe (I could not believe there actually WAS a recipe) and made it better by adding delicious hot caramel. The result was this Caramel Apple Cake which is one of the best cakes I've ever made/and or tasted. Try it for your family this weekend... it's got a great fresh apple flavor and a sweet caramel apple crust. Soooo yummy!
MARTIE'S CARAMEL APPLE CAKE (Apple Dapple Cake w/ Hot Caramel topping)
Make in a tube pan. Bakes @ 350 for 1 hour. Topping takes about 15 minutes.
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil (like Wesson)
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cups pecans, chopped fine
3 apples, peeled and chopped fine
Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. Add apples and pecans. Stir to coat. Mix together oil, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Add to the fruit mixture. Spray a tube pan with Baker's Joy or grease and flour it. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Remove from the oven and sit on a wire rack to cool. While the cake is still hot, pour over the caramel sauce and then let it cool completely before removing from the pan.
HOT CARAMEL SAUCE(optional)
1 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup whole milk
3/4 cup butter ( 1 1/2 sticks)
Put all three ingredients in a sauce pan over medium heat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and cook for 3 minutes, stirring constantly so it does not burn. Pour the hot caramel directly over the hot cake while it is still in the pan. Be careful! Hot sugar will burn you!!
NOTE: It is important to pour the caramel over the cake in the pan because it creates this great coating on the bottom, side and top of the cake.
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