Baked Apple Cake

Mom loved this cake, especially around Christmas time. Dad loves it too and will sometime ask for it for his birthday.

Ingredients:

  • Cake:

    • 1 cups sugar

    • 1/2 cup butter

    • 2 eggs

    • 4 cups chopped apples

    • 2 cups flour

    • 2 tsp baking soda

    • 1 tsp cinnamon

    • 1/2 tsp nutmeg

  • Caramel

    • 1/2 cup sugar

    • 1/4 cup buttermilk

    • 2 Tbps butter

    • 1 tsp corn syrup

    • 1/4 tsp baking soda

    • 1/2 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs and beat until fluffy. Mix in chopped apples, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and walnuts. Pour into pan. Bake for 50 minutes.

While the cake is baking, combine all caramel ingredients, except vanilla, in a medium sized sauce pan. Cook on high. Boil for several minutes until a nice caramel color.

Pour caramel on top of cake and serve.

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