Ingredients
- Cake:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/3 cups sugar, plus 1/4 cup for that apples
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground apple or pumpkin cake spice blend
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- 4 large golden scrumptious apples, peeled, cored, and roughly chopped (about 5 cups)
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- Finely grated zest from 1 orange
- Juice of just one orange (about 1/3 cup)
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla flavoring
- Caramel Glaze:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- two tablespoons water
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 3/4 cup pecans, toasted and roughly chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla flavoring
- Pinch salt
- Special equipment: 10 cup bundt pan
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 levels F. Generously butter and flour the bundt pan .
Whisk the flour, 1 1/3 cup from the sugar, 1 teaspoon from the cake spice, the baking powder, sodium bicarbonate, and salt together inside a large bowl.
Chuck the ball apples using the remaining 1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cake spice and hang aside.
Whisk the eggs and oil together in another bowl. Whisk within the sour cream. orange zest and juice, and vanilla. Pour the egg mixture in to the dry ingredients and stir having a wooden spoon just until combined but nonetheless a little lumpy.
Utilizing a slotted spoon, scatter about 1/2 cup from the apples towards the bottom from the bundt pan. Put about 1/three of the batter on the top. Repeat, alternating using the remaining apples and batter, ending using the batter.
Bake the wedding cake until it pulls away for that sides from the pan along with a skewer placed into the middle of the wedding cake arrives clean, about one hour and fifteen minutes. Awesome ten minutes and invert onto a rack placed on the baking sheet. Awesome. (The wedding cake can be ready to this time each day ahead.)
To help make the caramel: Stir the sugar, corn syrup. and a pair of tablespoons water in a tiny saucepan. Provide a boil over medium heat and prepare, swirling the pan although not stirring, before the sugar is dark amber-colored caramel. about fifteen minutes. Pull pan in the heat and thoroughly pour within the cream (be mindful it'll splatter). Stir within the pecans. vanilla, and salt. Awesome until caramel becomes thick and syrupy, then evenly pour within the cake and awesome until set.
Cook's Note: We love to to bake this cake yesterday we serve it therefore the flavors and texture ripen. Should you bake it each day ahead glaze using the caramel your day you intend for everyone it.
From Food Network Kitchens