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Best Jewish Apple Cake

How to make this moist, dense cake with layers of cinnamony apples
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Jewish
Servings 10

Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 big/3 small apples peeled & thinly sliced
  • 2 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup orange juice
  • 3 Tbsp sugar + 2 tsp cinnamon mixture

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Sift dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Add the wet ingredients - vanilla, eggs, oil and orange juice - to flour mixture. Mix by hand for 5-10 minutes until very thick.
  • Grease and flour a tube or bundt pan.
    If using a bundt pan, arrange apple slices in an overlapping pattern on the bottom of the prepared pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture. Pour half of the batter on top of the apples. Layer remaining apple slices and sprinkle remaining cinnamon sugar, followed by the remaining batter.
    If using a tube pan, spread half of the batter onto the bottom of the pan. Layer apple slices over the batter. Sprinkle with half of the cinnamon sugar mixture. Pour the remaining batter over the apples and top with the rest of the apple slices in an overlapping pattern. Sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon sugar mixture.
  • Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes. Let the cake cool to room temperature on a wire rack before turning it out of the pan.
Keyword cake, dessert, holiday
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