Aunt Mary's Apple Cake
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 50 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 8
- 2 1/2-3 cups apples, peeled, cored, chopped
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon (or 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and 1 teaspoon vanilla)
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup nuts, chopped (optional)
Recipe
- 1 preheat over to 350 degrees f.
- 2 sprinkle apples with sugar and let stand.
- 3 mix beaten egg and butter.
- 4 sift in flour, soda, salt and cinnamon and mix very well.
- 5 fold into apples and make sure the apples are well and evenly coated.
- 6 mix in raisins and, if desired, nuts.
- 7 note: we use raisins which have been soaked in bourbon.
- 8 note 2: if using regular raisins, make sure you plump them in warm water or rum or the like, then drain before adding.
- 9 place in a buttered 8" x 8" square baking dish or in a buttered bundt pan and bake for about 50 minutes.
- 10 cool briefly on rack in pan; turn out of the pan and allow to cool to room temperature on a rack.
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