Warm Apple Cake

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Ingredients

Cake Ingredients:

½ C butter
2 C sugar
2 eggs beaten
2 C flour
2 tsp soda
½ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
3 C sliced apples see above options for the best kind of apples
1 C broken nuts walnuts are my favorite choice for this recipe

Caramel Sauce:

½ C brown sugar
½ C white sugar
⅓ C butter softened
½ C cream or canned milk can be used in a pinch

Instructions

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Prepare a 9 x 13” pan or glass dish by greasing the bottom and sides liberally.
In a large mixing bowl blend the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until they are well combined.
Next add the beaten eggs and vanilla and cream the batter until the mixture is fluffy and yellow. Add the dry ingredients and mix slightly. The batter will be quite thick so you may have to combine the dry ingredients by hand with a heavy wooden or plastic spoon.
Fold in the apples and the nuts until all ingredients are combined.
Spread evenly into the 9 x 13” pan and place in the oven.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. The cake should be done in the middle and have a golden top.

About 15 minutes before the cake is finished cooking, begin making your caramel sauce.

Directions:

Melt the sugars in the saucepan.until they are a golden blonde color.
Whisk in the softened butter and the cream.
Boil for 3 to 5 minutes, until it’s smooth and golden colored. Stir constantly to prevent curdling. Remove from heat. Sauce will thicken as it cools.
Serve over warm cake and with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Notes

Notes:
Use butter, not margarine
Use cream, but if you don’t have any canned milk can be substituted
Cut your apples into thin slices, don’t dice them
Break your nuts into pieces, don’t chop with a nut chopper. I like to know when I have eaten a nut
Always use real vanilla, not imitation extract.
For fun–you could use butter brickle, salted caramel or butter pecan ice cream on top of the cake.