Recipe - Apple Walnut Cake With Apple Cider Glaze

1 One half cup Vegetable oil
2 cup Granulated sugar
3 Eggs
2 cup Unbleached allpurpose
flour, sifted
1/8 teaspoon Ground cloves
1 One fourth teaspoon Ground cinnamon
One fourth teaspoon Ground mace
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
1 cup Wholewheat flour, sifted
4 cup Shelled walnuts, coarsely
chopped
1 One fourth cup Coarse chunks of peeled and
cored apples
3 tablespoon Applejack
Apple Cider Glaze (see
recipe)

APPLE CIDER GLAZE
4 tablespoon Sweet butter
2 tablespoon Brown sugar
6 tablespoon Granulated sugar
3 tablespoon Applejack or apple brandy
4 tablespoon Sweet cider
2 tablespoon Fresh orange juice
2 tablespoon Heavy cream
Preheat oven to 325F.

In a large bowl, beat vegetable oil and sugar until thick and opaque.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift
together flour, cloves, cinnamon, mace, baking soda and salt, then
stir in wholewheat flour. Add to oil and egg mixture and mix until
well blended. Add walnuts, apple chunks and applejack all at once and
stir batter until pieces are evenly distributed.

Pour batter into a greased 10inch round cake pan. Bake for 1 hour
and 15 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out
clean.

APPLE CIDER GLAZE:

Melt butter in a small saucepan and stir in both sugars. Add
remaining ingredients, stir, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat
slightly and cook for 4 minutes. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
Pour while still warm over warm cake.

Makes 1 One half cups glaze.

From the San Francisco Chronicle, 11/16/88.

Posted by Stephen Ceideburg

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