Moist Spice Cake Filled with Apple Chunks and Walnuts
There's no finer way to enjoy autumn's bounty and warm up a chilly house than by baking a fresh apple spice cake filled with your favorite variety of tangy, sweet apples.
Autumn in New England is apple-picking time, and families love to visit the orchard for a day of autumn fun in the country at a pick-your-own orchard or rural farm stand.
Ingredients for fresh apple spice cake are simple and flexible. You can use your favorite apple variety, modify or reduce the sweeteners and use white flour instead of whole wheat flour if you wish - suit your own taste with this easy, moist and delicious apple cake recipe.
You'll still end up with a moist and delicious cake that won't last more than a day or two because it's so delicious. If it does last longer, it will become moister and the spices will mellow.
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Apple Spice Cake Recipe - Ingredients
Use your favorite cooking or eating apple to make this fresh apple cake. I use Macintosh or Cortland apples - my family's favorites. Macintosh apples have just enough natural sweetness and juice to bake into a perfect apple cake.
I don't peel my apples because I like the added nutrition and fruitiness they give to the cake, but you can remove the peels before coring and chopping your apples.
Ingredients
4 cups coarsely chopped apples (about 4 to 5 large apples, cut into 1-inch pieces)
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup Walnuts, chopped
2 cups whole wheat flour
1/4 Cup wheat germ
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
Apple Spice Cake Recipe - Mixing and Baking
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. (325 degrees if using a glass baking dish)
Combine apples, sugars, oil, eggs, nuts and vanilla in a large bowl. Set aside.
Mix dry ingredients together, then stir in by hand to apple mixture. Stir gently to combine - don't over beat!
Pour batter into a greased and floured 13" x 9" x 2" baking pan and spread gently - it will be thick.
Bake in center of oven on middle rack for 50 minutes, or until cake pulls away slightly from sides of pan.
Cool in pan on rack. Dust with confectioner's sugar or try a topping variation at serving time such as lemon glaze, whipped cream or ice cream.
Makes about 12 servings.
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Easy Lemon Glaze Cake Topping Recipe
Fresh apple cake needs no topping in my house, but you can embellish it for special occasions with Powdered Sugar or Whipped Cream added just before serving. If you want to get a bit fancier, drizzle each serving of Fresh Apple Cake with Lemon Glaze (recipe below).
Lemon Glaze Topping
Ingredients
1 cup confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar)
1-1/2 Tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 Tablespoon corn syrup
Instructions
Blend all ingredients together until smooth. Drizzle over top of cooled cake, or add to individual portions just before serving.
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The Cow in Apple Time
Something inspires the only cow of late
To make no more of a wall than an open gate,
And think no more of wall-builders than fools.
Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools
A cider syrup. Having tasted fruit,
She scores a pasture withering to the root.
She runs from tree to tree where lie and sweeten
The windfalls spiked with stubble and worm-eaten.
She leaves them bitten when he has to fly.
She bellows on a knoll against the sky.
Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry.
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
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- Apples have plenty of natural fiber
- Apples are low-calorie foods - 1 average size apple contains 80 calories
- Apples have no cholesterol
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- Apple Spice Cake Recipe - Mixing and Baking
- Macintosh Apples - New Hampshire Orchard Fruit Harvest
- Apple Machine - Peels, Cores and Slices All At Once
- Old Man Apple Tree - Ancient Orchard Guardian
- The World's Best Apples - Voting (Plexo)
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- Autumn Apple Poetry - The Cow in Apple Time
- Apple Red Mixer - My Favorite Appliance
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- Apple Lore Lenses - All About Apples
- Apple Note Cards
- Apple Recipes Shared by Bloggers
- Apple Picking Video - Upstate New York
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- Treasures-By-Brenda Treasures-By-Brenda Sep 10, 2009 @ 6:59 pm
- Beautifully done!
Blessed.
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- momto4 momto4 Jul 27, 2009 @ 9:45 pm
- Your apple cake sounds yummy! I'll have to try it!
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- NanLT NanLT May 3, 2009 @ 7:24 am
- Gorgeous desserts and apples. 5* (but only because I can't give 6) and I've linked and lensrolled to my Tasty Apple Desserts lens.
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