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The Best Jewish Apple Cake Recipe (for Rosh Hashanah)

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. Layer apple slices in an overlapping pattern on the bottom of the prepared pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture. Put 1/2 cake batter on top of the apples. Layer remaining apple slices and sprinkle remaining cinnamon sugar, followed by the rest of the batter.
  • Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes. Allow cake to cool to room temperature on a wire rack before turning it out of the pan.
Keyword cake, dessert, holiday
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