Autumn Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Butter Sauce

Autumn Apple Cake fit in quite nicely with our German-inspired meal for a 90^th birthday celebration. Moist and flavorful, this call is chock-full of  apple chunks and walnuts and finished with a brown sugar butter sauce.  

Autumn Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Butter Sauce  Yield: One bundt cake

Cake:

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

1 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened

3 large eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla 

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups peeled & diced apples

1 cup chopped walnuts

Brown Sugar Butter Sauce:

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

1/4 cup milk

1. Preheat the oven to 325°F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a standard-sized bundt pan or a 10-inch tube pan.
2. Cake: Combine sugar, oil, and softened butter in a large mixing bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. 
3. Mix in eggs, one at a time, then mix in vanilla. 
4. Gradually mix in flour, baking soda, and salt until well combined. 
   
5. Stir in apples and walnuts. 
   
6. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
   
7. Bake in the preheated oven until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 90 minutes. 
8. Remove from the oven and let cool from the pan for a few minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack.
   
9. Brown Sugar Butter Sauce: While the cake is cooling, make the glaze: Combine brown sugar, butter, and milk in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Once boiling, stir for 1 minute to combine.
10. Let cool til just slightly thickened. Pour about half the sauce over the cake and save the other half to drizzle over slices of the cake. 
    
    
    

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Autumn Apple Cake  Yield: One bundt cake

Cake:

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

1 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened

3 large eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla 

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups peeled & diced apples

1 cup chopped walnuts

Brown Sugar Butter Sauce:

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

1/4 cup milk

1. Preheat the oven to 325°F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a standard-sized bundt pan or a 10-inch tube pan.
2. Cake: Combine sugar, oil, and softened butter in a large mixing bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. 
3. Mix in eggs, one at a time, then mix in vanilla. 
4. Gradually mix in flour, baking soda, and salt until well combined. 
5. Stir in apples and walnuts. 
6. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
7. Bake in the preheated oven until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 90 minutes. 
8. Remove from the oven and let cool from the pan for a few minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack.
9. Brown Sugar Butter Sauce: While the cake is cooling, make the glaze: Combine brown sugar, butter, and milk in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Once boiling, stir for 1 minute to combine.
10. Let cool til just slightly thickened. Pour about half the sauce over the cake and save the other half to drizzle over slices of the cake.