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Mrs. Finnys Apple Cake

ID: 773   Cakes  
   
 
Ingredients:
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup orange juice
2 cups grated unpared fresh apple
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup flaked coconut
Buttermilk Sauce:
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup of butter (1 stick)
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
 
Instructions:

Sift flour, soda, and cinnamon onto wax paper. Combine sugar, eggs, oil, vanilla, and orange juice in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until well blended. Stir in flour mixture until well mixed. Fold in apple, walnuts and coconut. Spoon into a well-greased and floured 10 x 4 inch angel cake tube pan.

Bake in a slow oven, 325 degrees, 1 1/2 hours or until top springs back when pressed lightly with fingertip.

When cooled for 15 minutes, remove from pan onto a serving plate with raised edge. Puncture top of cake all over with a wooden pick or skewer. Spoon hot buttermilk sauce over warm cake several times until cake absorbs most of it. Let stand about an hour before serving.

Buttermilk Sauce:
Combine above in medium size saucepan. Cook, stirring constantly, over medium heat until mixture comes to boiling. Pour over the Apple Cake.

 
Submitted by:
Florence Skinner
Oregon USA


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