Mamaw’s Old-Fashioned Fresh Apple Cake
Ingredients
- ¾ cups Wesson oil
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 3 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-½ tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
- 3 generous cups apples, uncooked, unpeeled and coarsely chopped
- Bundt or tube pan
- Wax paper
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 °F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the first 4 ingredients; stir by hand until smooth.
- In a small bowl, sift together the soda, salt and flour.
- Add the sifted mixture to the wet ingredients; beat by hand 200 strokes; in this step, the batter comes together more like a dough rather than a regular cake batter.
- Fold in the nuts and apples.
- The apples should almost immediately start adding moisture to the dough, relaxing it and making it more wet; however, the batter will still be thick and chunky.
- Cut strips of wax paper and line the bottom of the tube pan.
- Turn the cake batter into the tube pan.
- Place in the pre-heated oven and bake for one hour.
- Remove from the oven and allow the cake to cool on a wire rack.
- When cooled, use the wax paper to help lift the cake from the pan.
Notes
Remember to take the wax paper off of the bottom of the cake when you take it from the pan.