Apple Cake with Orange Topping
This delicious apple cake is the perfect fall recipe. Bake it in a beautiful bundt pan and then top it with a perfect orange glaze. Everyone will want seconds.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, very soft or melted
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 teaspoons lemon and/or orange peel or 1 teaspoon lemon and/or orange extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups grated chopped cooking apples
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Raisins soaked in orange juice (optional)
Instructions
- Beat fats and sugar until fluffy, add eggs, extract/peel, and vanilla, beat again.
- Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt, add to batter.
- Add apples, lemon juice, and raisins, mix well.
- Bake 1 1/2 hours at 350 degrees F in a very-well-greased and floured Angel food tube pan or a Bundt pan. Test with a toothpick for doneness.
- Place the pan upside down on a plate and let cool for 15-20 min before removing pan.
To Make Orange Topping:
2 oranges
1 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup honey (or 1/3 cup maple syrup, or 1/3 cup extra sugar)
Juice oranges; combine juice with remaining ingredients and set aside. Cut oranges into quarters, then thin slices; cook orange slices in water to cover (not 1 cup water---that goes in juice mixture) until tender, 20 minutes. Drain. Add reserved ingredients, and cook until thick and sweet and syrupy and well-candied, about 30 minutes.
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Littlebit
Oct 02, 2010
Help! I got lost in directions for making the orange topping. Do you keep the orange slices or the liquid they were simmered in? If anyone has made this, I would appreciate your feed back. I think the cake sounds really good.
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