Apple Cake

Fall is finally here! And with everyone fawning over pumpkin flavored this and that I wanted to focus on the other favorite food for fall baking. The apple! Of course because I grew up on the orchard where I patiently waited for them to ripen so we could eat them and make them in to a myriad of wonderful things. This is an original recipe for me that I hope you enjoy!

I always find when baking with apples, pie cake or whatever, it is best to choose a mix to vary your flavors and textures.For this cake I used a mix of Gingergold, Jonathon, Fuji and Honey Crisp.

ingredients 2 cups sugar ½ cup butter, softened 4 eggs 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp salt 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda ½ cup heavy cream ½ cup milk 2 tsp vanilla extract

directions preheat oven to 350F grease two 10” cake pans and set aside cream butter and sugar until smooth add in eggs and beat until fluffy add all dry ingredients and mix on low speed to combine while slowly adding heavy cream, milk and vanilla pour batter in to pans peel and slice apples thinly and toss with 3 tbsp brown sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon bake for 45-55 min. dust with powdered sugar (optional) enjoy!