Honey Apple Cake
Source of Recipe
Southern Living
Recipe Introduction
This cake is awesome and great with coffee!
List of Ingredients
1 cup finely chopped pecans, divided
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup honey
3 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups peeled and diced Golden Delicious Apples (about 3 large apples)
Honey Sauce (recipe below)
Recipe
Grease and flour 1 (10 cup) Bundt pan; sprinkle bottom of pan with 1/4 cup pecans. Set aside.
Beat sugar, oil and honey at medium speed with an electric mixer until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended.
Combine flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Gradually add to sugar mixture, beating at low speed just until blended. Stir in vanilla, remaining 3/4 cup pecans, and apples. Spoon into prepared pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 15 minutes; remove from pan. Pour 1/2 cup Honey Sauce over warm cake. Cool. Serve with remaining warm sauce and if desired, ice cream.
Honey Sauce
1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/3 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
Bring all ingredients to a boil in a medium saucepan over med-hight heat, stirring constantly; boil, stirring constantly, 2 min. Keep warm.
Cyndi's note: This will make 1-1/2 cups of sauce. You will only use approx. 1/2 cup for the glaze. If you are not going to serve this with the individual slices, you might want to cut the recipe down some.
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