Recipe - Hearty Beef Pasta And Spinach Minestrone

3 cup Unbleached allpurpose flour
2 tablespoon Wheat germ; (optional)
One half teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Baking powder
6 small Rome; Granny Smith,
; Yellow Delicious,
; or other
; lowmoisture apples
One half Lemon; Juice of
4 lg Eggs
1 cup Vegetable oil
2 cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
One half cup Orange juice
1 teaspoon Cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9inch springform pan.

In a bowl combine the flour, wheat germ, salt, and baking powder and set
aside.

Peel, core, and slice the apples into eighths and place in another bowl.
Sprinkle with lemon juice.

In a third bowl beat the eggs until foamy. Add the vegetable oil and 1 3/4
cups of the sugar and beat well. Stir in the vanilla. To the egg mixture,
alternately add the dry ingredients and the orange juice. Pour half the
batter into the prepared pan. Cover with half the cut or sliced up apples.

In a small bowl mix the remaining One fourth cup sugar with the cinnamon and
sprinkle half over the apples. Cover with the remaining batter.

Starting at the outside of the pan, neatly place the remaining apple slices
in overlapping concentric circles. Sprinkle with the remaining
cinnamonsugar mixture.

Put some aluminum foil on the bottom of the oven in case the batter leaks.
Bake the cake on the middle rack for 1 One half hours, or until a toothpick
inserted in the center comes out clean. If the cake starts to darken on
top, cover with aluminum foil. Cool on a rack before you carefully remove
the cake from the pan.

Yield: 1 cake

Converted by MC_Buster.

Per serving: 3901 Calories (kcal); 237g Total Fat; (53% calories from fat);
27g Protein; 434g Carbohydrate; 748mg Cholesterol; 2759mg Sodium Food
Exchanges: One half Grain(Starch); 3 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 1 Fruit; 45
One half Fat; 27 Other Carbohydrates

Recipe by: COOKING LIVE SHOW #CL9381

Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.