Monday, February 27, 2012

Apple Walnut Breakfast Cake


One of my favorite memories of the 5 months we lived on Long Island was taking the girls to the Lewin Farms apple orchard. We could have gone to The Hampton's, but no....we chose the apple orchards. Wish we had one here now that we actually eat them regularly. I found a great site with tips for apples to help you know when they are in season, what to use them for and how to store them.


6 Macintosh apples
1 tablespoon cinnamon
5 tablespoons sugar
2 3/4 cups flour, sifted
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
1 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a tube pan. Peel, core and chop apples. Mix with cinnamon and sugar and set aside.

Stir together flour, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together oil, orange juice, sugar and vanilla. Mix wet ingredients with the dry ones, then add eggs one at a time.

Pour half of batter into pan. Spread half of the apples on top. Pour the remaining batter over the apples and arrange the remaining apples on top. Bake for about 1 hour and 40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

12 servings
331 calories (with walnuts- 291 without)
16.2g fat
1.8g fiber

2 comments:

  1. What's the site for the apple tips?

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  2. Hover over the apple part and you should see a link. I need to look into making that more visible!

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