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Serves
10-12
Author Notes
My friend Jess and I were accountable of baking for Friday afternoon teas at Adams Home, one in every of Harvard’s residential undergraduate homes, for four years. This apple cake used to be a mainstay at the teas. As note unfold about our baked items, of us exterior of our Home began to sneak into our occasions – along side the total males’s swimming team infrequently. If that is rarely any longer an endorsement, I do no longer know what is! —rachel325
Components
- Cake
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1 1/2 cups
canola oil
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2 cups
sugar
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3
astronomical eggs
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2 teaspoons
vanilla extract
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3 cups
all-motive flour
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1 teaspoon
baking soda
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1 teaspoon
salt
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3 cups
chopped, peeled apples (a combination of Granny Smith, Cortlands, Jonathans, or other native farmstead apples)
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1 cup
chopped pecans
- Caramel Sauce
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1 cup
sugar
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1/4 cup
water
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2 tablespoons
light corn syrup
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1/2 cup
(1 stick) butter, chopped into 8 pieces
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1/2 cup
heavy cream
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2 teaspoons
vanilla extract
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1 pinch
salt
Instructions
- Heat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a Bundt pan (or 9X13 pan).
- In a astronomical bowl, mix oil and sugar with an electric mixer except well blended. Add the eggs. Procure 22 situation the perimeters of the bowl with a rubber spatula after which mix in vanilla.
- In a minute bowl, scuttle together the flour, soda, and salt. Add these to the moist formulation and mix except blended.
- Exhaust a spatula to predicament bowl and make sure that all the pieces is integrated. Fold within the apples and pecans.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 60-70 minutes or except toothpick comes out neat. Cold for 20 minutes then invert the Bundt pan on a serving platter. (Save no longer invert and proper aid in pan if the employ of 9X13 pan.)
- MEANWHILE, MAKE THE SAUCE: Space sugar in a medium heavy saucepan. Pour water and corn syrup over the sugar.
- Activate the variety to medium-excessive and originate to warmth the sugar combination. Swirl pan gently except sugar dissolves, but possess no longer let it boil. Exhaust a rather damp pastry brush to mix again any wayward crystals into the sauce.
- Once the sugar is melted, flip the warmth to excessive, veil, and cook for 2 minutes. Save no longer scuttle.
- Elevate away the lid and proceed cooking/swirling except the sauce begins to flip darkish amber and proper begins to smoke.
- Elevate away from warmth and add the butter, one piece at a time, stirring well to incorporate. Gently trail within the cream. Be cautious in case sauce bubbles up. If, as has came about to me, distress strikes and the sauce becomes lumpy, don’t fear – correct space it over low warmth and scuttle except refined.
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Move in vanilla and a pinch of salt. Let cool a small bit.
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Lag holes in warmth cake with a fork after which pour the warmth syrup over the cake. Relieve gross or with vanilla or cinnamon ice cream.