1 cup butter -- softened
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons apple pie spice
1 cup apple cider
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream butter and shortening; gradually add sugar,
beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time,
beating after each addition. Combine next 4 ingredients.
Add to creamed mixture alternately with apple cider,
beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Mix just until
blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.
Bake at 325 degrees F. for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until
a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pan 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan, and cool
completely on a rack.