I’ve kinda been in a cooking slump lately… you know,
ordering pizza, swinging through Jimmy John’s for sandwiches, picking up
pre-made food at the grocery store. We’ve actually been eating out lately, but often
that does not satisfy. I usually wish we had saved the money and eaten at home.
Even omelets at home taste better than some restaurant food, right?
My favorite stand-by dinner is grilled cheese and tomato
soup; however, I do make a killer grilled cheese (brioche bread with real
butter and three different types of cheeses) and I do serve homemade tomato
soup, so I guess I get a break with that menu.
Last weekend I purchased some apples and somehow, that has
inspired me to get back in the kitchen. This cake was easy and I made it much healthier
by using less sugar, less oil, and half wheat flour. The butter sauce could not
be passed up….. it absolutely made the cake.
Here’s what
you need:
For the
Cake:
2 heaping
cups of peeled apples, thinly sliced
3 T white
sugar
2 T cinnamon
½ C vegetable
oil
½ C
applesauce
1 C white
sugar
4 eggs
3 t vanilla
¼ C orange
juice
1 ½ C white flour
1 ½ C wheat
flour
1 T baking
powder
1 t salt
For the
Glaze:
¼ C butter
1/3 C orange
juice
2/3 C sugar
Here’s what
you do:
Toss the
apple slices in the cinnamon and sugar. Set aside.
Beat the
oil, applesauce, sugar, eggs, vanilla and orange juice until well incorporated.
Add the flours, baking powder and salt.
Spoon about
1/3 of the batter in a well-greased bundt pan. Arrange the apple slices over
the batter. Spoon the remaining batter over the apples.
Bake at 325
degrees for about 60 minutes. Check it after about 50 minutes.
To make the
glaze: melt the butter, orange juice and sugar together and spoon over the
cake. I started while the cake was still in the pan. (You can see the holes I
poked in the cake with a wooden skewer.) Then I turned the cake out of the pan
and continued spooning the glaze. I also used a pastry brush to apply the
glaze. Be patient – it all fits in there and you want it, trust me.
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I love all the apple recipes I'm seeing. I like the shot of the inside, mmm, I'm ready for desert now. I'd take a good grilled cheese and homemade tomato soup any night. Hope you are having a great week.
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Hubby is always asking me to make a bundt cake that he can have with coffee and I never have. This recipe has inspired me to make him one!
ReplyDeleteMMM..... I am loving that it is fall and apple season now. Lovely cake!
ReplyDeleteThis looks amazing! What a great recipe to post this time of year........yummy!
ReplyDeleteI love anything with cinnamon and apples. This looks so good I can almost smell it baking!
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