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.