Ingredients: 5 apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 12 thick slices,2/3 c cinnamon sugar (2/3 c sugar mixed with 1-1/4 tsp cinnamon),3 c flour,2 c granulated sugar,3 tsp baking powder,4 large eggs,1 c neutral oil,1/4 c orange juice,2-1/2 tsp vanilla extract,Vegetable shortening and extra flour for greasing pan,Vegetable shortening and extra flour for greasing pan
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Grease and flour tube pan.
- Peel, core, and cut apples into 12 thick slices each.
- Place in a bowl, sprinkle over about one-third of the cinnamon sugar mixture, and toss together with your hands.
- Add all ingredients to a mixing bowl (except apples and cinnamon sugar mixture) and mix together until the batter is smooth.
- Spoon about half of the cake batter into the bottom of your greased and floured tube pan.
- Arrange half of the sliced apples on top of the batter, then sprinkle with half of the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Next, add the remaining batter, then another layer of apples, then finish the top with the remaining cinnamon sugar.
- Bake in the oven for 1-1/2 hours or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out mostly clean (don’t overbake or it may become dry).
- Let cool on the counter for about 15 minutes. Then gently slide a butter knife around the sides to loosen the cake from the pan. Prop it up on top of a large can (like a large can of whole tomatoes) and drop the sides off the pan.
- Place it back on the countertop and run a knife between the cake bottom and the bottom of the pan. Carefully but quickly invert the cake onto a plate (to remove it from the tube), then invert it again onto another plate, so it’s right-side up.
- Store covered on the counter for several days.
- Serve warm with a steaming mug of of coffee and enjoy.
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