MAKES: 12 servings
Ingredients
- 3 cups chopped peeled Gala or Braeburn apples (about 3 medium)
- 1/2 cup bourbon
- 2 cups sugar
- 1-1/2 cups canola oil
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla flavoring
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons apple cake spice
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate
- 1 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- ICING:
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon 2% milk
- 1 tablespoon bourbon
- Dash salt
- 1/8 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a ten-in. tube pan. Inside a large bowl, toss apples with bourbon.
- Inside a large bowl, beat sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla until well blended. In another bowl, whisk flour, cake spice, salt and sodium bicarbonate progressively beat into sugar mixture. Stir in apple mixture and walnuts.
- Transfer to prepared pan. Bake 1-1/4 to at least one-1/2 hrs or until a toothpick placed in center arrives clean. Awesome in pan ten minutes before removing to some wire rack.
- In a tiny heavy saucepan, combine butter, brown sugar, milk, bourbon and salt. Provide a boil over medium heat, stirring from time to time prepare and stir 3 minutes. Remove from heat stir in vanilla. Drizzle over warm cake. Awesome completely. Yield: 12 servings.
Editor’s Notes: To get rid of cakes easily, use solid shortening to grease plain and fluted tube pans. To toast nuts, spread inside a 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for five-ten minutes or until gently browned, stirring from time to time.
Initially printed as Spiced Apple Cake with Caramel Icing in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cook book Annual 2014