California Apple Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 4 cups peeled and sliced apples, preferably granny smith or some other firm,not-too-sweet variety
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1 cup chopped nuts, preferably walnuts
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 in a large mixing bowl, combine the apples and sugar; mix well. (actually i do this as i'm slicing them, so that the sugar keeps the apples from getting dark.)
• 2 stir in oil, nuts, eggs and vanilla; mix well.
• 3 combine dry ingredients and add to apple mixture. blend well to ensure that you won't have little pockets of flour in the finished cake.
• 4 spoon into a 9x13 pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
• 5 bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour at 350° (325° if you use a pyrex pan). it's important not to overcook this cake, so check it at the lower baking time. the center should be just barely set and the edges still fairly soft.
• 6 cool in pan before cutting.
• 7 cut with a sharp knife so that you cut through the apples, rather than dragging half of a slice from an adjacent piece of cake.
• 8 you'll probably need something like a pancake turner to get the slices out, especially the first few.
• 9 this cake doesn't come out in nice, neat slices, but it tastes wonderful.
• 10 it can be served either warm or cold.