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Washington Apple Cake

Source of Recipe


The Captain Whidbey Inn, Coupeville, WA






List of Ingredients



• 3 eggs
  
• 2 cups sugar
  
• 1 cup cooking oil
  
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 2 tsp cinnamon
  
• 1 tsp baking soda
  
• 1/2 tsp salt
  
• 1 tsp vanilla
  
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
  
• 4 cups thinly sliced, pared tart apples (about 5 medium apples)
  
• *
  
• -- Cream Cheese Icing --
  
• 2 pkgs. (3 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
  
• 1/4 cup melted butter
  
• 2 cups powdered sugar
  
• 1 tsp lemon juice
  






Instructions



1. Beat eggs with a mixer until thick and light. Combine sugar and oil; pour into eggs with mixer on medium speed.
   
   
2. Stir together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt; add to egg mixture with vanilla. Beat to mix. Stir in walnuts.
   
   
3. Spread apples in a buttered 13x9x2-inch pan. Pour batter over apples, spreading to cover. Bake in a 350-degree (F) oven for 1 hour. Remove from oven and cool.
   
   
4. For the cream cheese icing: Beat cream cheese until fluffy. Beat in butter, then beat in powdered sugar and lemon juice.
   
   Spread cream cheese icing over cooled cake. Refrigerate.
   
   Makes 12 to 15 servings.