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RAW APPLE CAKE

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This recipe was entered in the contest for The Best Recipe or Technique Your Mother Taught You
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dymnyno's Notes: My mother used to make this cake. I think that she found the recipe in our local newspaper many years ago . Sebastopol which used to be covered with huge groves of apples (famous for Gravensteins...
My mother used to make this cake. I think that she found the recipe in our local newspaper many years ago . Sebastopol which used to be covered with huge groves of apples (famous for Gravensteins) is very close to Petaluma, which is my home town and also my mother's and my grandmother's. My mother was not a very good cook but she was a great cake baker.

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Serves 1 cake

4 cups diced apples (about 7 apples ,peeled) Ask a question about this ingredient

2 cups sugar Ask a question about this ingredient

3 cups flour Ask a question about this ingredient

2 eggs Ask a question about this ingredient

2 teaspoon baking soda Ask a question about this ingredient

2 teaspoons vanilla Ask a question about this ingredient

1/2 cup oil or butter Ask a question about this ingredient

2 teaspoons cinnamon Ask a question about this ingredient

1 cup chopped walnuts Ask a question about this ingredient

1/2 teaspoon salt Ask a question about this ingredient

Mix the diced apples with eggs. Then add sugar, cinnamon, oil, and nuts. I have used both oil and I have used butter...both work.
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Sift flour, soda, salt and mix into wet ingredients.
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Pour into a 9 x 12 loaf pan or tube pan which insures that the middle is evenly cooked and bake at 350 degrees for about an hour. Check to see if the center is cooked with a knife, if you don't use a tube pan.
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4 Comments on RAW APPLE CAKE

drbabs added over 2 years ago

Is that you in the lower right corner? I love that we're putting up pictures of our mothers.

dymnyno added over 2 years ago

thank you!

Lizthechef added over 2 years ago

Your Mom looks incredibly elegant - sorry, I am just into mothers today. BTW, recipe looks great too ;)

everdaisy added over 2 years ago

I saved this recipe for Thanksgiving.

I substituted one cup of flour with whole wheat flour, and cut the sugar by a third. It still turned out really great, but because of the lack of extra sugar, it wasn't too sweet. I added a sugar/vanilla/milk glaze on top and it made it even more moist and added the right sweetness to it.

Now I can't stop eating it. This recipe forced me to learn how to peel apples.