A delicious fall cake, perfect for apple season!
Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Makes: 1 cake
Ingredients:
- Butter for greasing pan
- 3 cups flour, plus more for dusting pan
- 1½ cups vegetable oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups peeled, cored and thickly sliced tart apples, like Honeycrisp or Granny Smith
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup raisins
- Vanilla ice cream (optional)
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 9-inch tube pan. Beat the oil and sugar together in a mixer (fitted with a paddle attachment) while assembling the remaining ingredients. After about 5 minutes, add the eggs and beat until the mixture is creamy.
- Sift together 3 cups of flour, the salt, cinnamon and baking soda. Stir into the batter. Add the vanilla, apples, walnuts and raisins and stir until combined.
- Transfer the mixture to the prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan before turning out. Serve at room temperature with vanilla ice cream, if desired.
Notes:
- Recipe from the New York Times.