Here is one my mom used to make for her bridge club. Found it in one of her old recipe boxes.
APPLE CAKE
This incredibly delicious and moist cake is a great cake for a pot luck or gathering, or serve it as a brunch or coffee cake. It doesn’t need a glaze, but a caramel glaze would be delicious, or just dust it with a little sifted powdered sugar.
Ingredients:
•3 Golden Delicious apples (about 1 pound), peeled, diced
•1 cup pecan pieces
•1/2 cup sugar
•2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
•4 large eggs
•2/3 cup safflower oil or Canola
•2 1/4 cups sugar
•1 cup applesauce
•1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
•3 cups all purpose flour
•3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
•1/2 teaspoon salt
Preparation:
Heat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 12-cup Bundt cake pan or spray thoroughly with a flour and oil baking spray.
Core apples and dice in 1/4-inch dice. Put diced apples in a bowl with pecan pieces, 1/2 cup of sugar, and the cinnamon. Stir to blend; set aside.
In a large a mixing bowl, stir or whisk the eggs with oil, sugar, applesauce, and vanilla. In another bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Slowly beat dry ingredients into the oil and applesauce mixture until well blended. Stir in the diced apple mixture. Spoon into the prepared baking pan. Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until a cake tester or wooden pick inserted in center comes out with a few crumbs clinging. Cool in pan on a rack for 15 minutes. If necessary, carefully loosen sides with a spatula. Put the rack over the pan and carefully invert. Cool completely.
Slide the cooled cake onto a serving plate, or to be safe, place the baking pan over the cake again, flip with the rack, then cover with a serving plate and invert again.
Apple cake recipe
Thank you! I knew that someone here would have a good apple cake recipe. I have tried several recipes I found on line in recent years, and they all seemed a little on the dry side. This one sounds like it would be nice and moist with the applesauce in it.
I made your mom’s Apple Cake recipe last night and it turned out very good! I cut the am’t of oil back to 1/2 cup and reduced the sugar, using 1 3/4 cup plus the 1/2 cup that was mixed with the apples & cinnamon. (Used home-canned applesauce that was slightly sweetened.) Definitely a keeper recipe. Thank you for posting it.