RECIPE: REC: Gigi's Apple Cake. Made this on Sunday and DH and I just loved it.

RECIPE:

deb-in-mi

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Gigi’s Apple Cake

This is an old-fashioned, dense and moist cake…loaded with apples. If you have a mandolin (or V-slicer) – it makes very quick work of slicing the apples. But don’t slice on the very thinnest level – you don’t want paper thin apple slices.

1 cup canola oil

2.5 cups flour

2 tsp. baking powder

3 tsp. ground cinnamon

6 Granny Smith apples (about 1 ¼ lbs) – peeled, cored, and thinly sliced

2 ¼ cups granulated sugar

4 large eggs

1/3 cup orange juice

2 tsp. pure vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour a 12 cup Bundt or tube pan (I use Baker’s Joy nonstick spray with flour). In a medium bowl, combine the 2 ½ cups of flour with the baking powder and 2 tsp. of the cinnamon. In a large bowl, toss the apples with ¼ cup of the sugar and the remaining 1 tsp. of cinnamon and set aside.

In a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the 1 cup of oil with the eggs, orange juice, vanilla and the remaining 2 cups of sugar on medium speed for 1 minute. Add the flour in 3 batches, mixing until just combined. Add the apples and stir to combine. Transfer to the pan, leaving about an inch at the top, and bake until golden and a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 1.5 hours. Let cake cool in the pan for about 30 minutes before unmolding it onto a rack to cool completely.

NOTE: I didn't premix the flour with the cinnamon and baking powder. I just added them when adding to the liquid ingredients. What can I say...I'm lazy!

Source: Every Day with Rachel Ray

 
I've made this cake for 25 years and it is my favorite cake

Even though Rachel Ray put the recipe out, the recipe (German Apple Cake) I got over 25 years ago uses the same exact ingredients but 1/2 cup more flour- interesting, eh?

Whenever I make a cake to take to friends or need something here at home to have around for drop-in guests, this is the cake. It is moist, delicious and holds up for about a week without tasting "old". A winner of a cake!

 
I worked at a restaurant that had this very cake on the menu as well...

they called it "Apple Walnut Cake" but here's the good part...they iced it with cream cheese icing. TDF.

 
I sprinkle powdered sugar on mine but will drizzle some thin cream cheese frosting next time. Yum.

 
What goes round comes round...I also have the recipe (several) with slight variations. Cream Cheese

icing is one of the variations I don't make many desserts anymore, but this was always a favorite.

 
I made a glaze of powdered sugar, maple syrup, and half/half

I thought it went very well with the cake. even DH would insists he doesn't like maple syrup on anything except pancakes loved it! (sometimes the poor boy doesn't know what the heck he is talking about:)

Deb

 
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