Grandmother Odom’s Apple Cake
(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)
Batter will be stiff as cookie dough until you add the apples and they begin to release their juices.
Source: The Associated Press- Elizabeth Karmel
Serves 12 peopleCategories: Cakes - Frosting - Icing
Ingredients
- 2 cups granulated white sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil such as Crisco
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 4 generous cups raw apples, peeled and cut coarse (about 5 large Granny Smith apples)
- 1 cup chopped toasted walnuts
- Confectioners sugar for decoration, optional
Directions
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Heat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a Bundt pan with baking spray or lightly grease and dust with flour, shaking out excess.
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In a mixing bowl, beat together sugar and oil and add eggs one at a time until creamy.
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In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cinnamon and baking soda. Add flour mixture, in three additions, to sugar mixture, mixing well between additions.
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Fold in chopped apples. Let sit for 5 minutes, stir well and add walnuts. Mix well.
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Pour batter into prepared pan and place on a baking sheet. Bake 60 to 65 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near the center comes out clean. Let cool in the pan 10 minutes, then invert on a cake cooling rack. Dust top with confectioners’ sugar if desired.