Apple Cake

My mom gave me a bunch of apples and I had to think of something to do with all of them.  I came across this recipe at Smitten Kitchen.  It looked delicious and very simple to make.  There was no butter...HURRAY!!!  When the timer went off my baby was napping and so I quickly went to turn the timer off but unfortunately I turned the oven off at the same time.  The cake wasn't done and I didn't realize what I had done until 15 minutes later.  So my cake ended up being overbaked at the bottom.  But I know that if I had not done that it would have been perfect because this is a Smitten Kitchen recipe.  I didn't have any orange juice but I had Mandarins so I juiced that until I got 1/4 cup. 









Now that I've been doing this blog I realize how bad I am at taking pictures...this cake looked a lot better than the picture came out.  I thought the problem was my camera.  But the other day I was looking of some pictures of the boys and some of them were really good and I realized my problem is lighting.  The lighting in my kitchen is bad and there is no natural light.  This pictures I took of the boys that turned out so good were in the living room where there is tons of natural light.  Anyways I'll keep trying to improve my camera skills and hope my pictures will start to look half as good as all those other amazing food blogs out there.





Apple Cake

Verbatim from Smitten Kitchen

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6 apples

1 tbsp cinnamon

5 tbsp sugar



2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted

1 tbsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 cup vegetable oil (I used canola oil)

2 cups sugar

1/4 cup orange juice

2 1/2 tsp vanilla

4 eggs

1 cup walnuts (optional) 





Preheat oven to 350 F.  Grease a tube pan.  Peel, core and chop apples into chunks.  Toss 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 into the dry ones, then add eggs, one at a time. Scrape down the bowl to ensure  all ingredients are incorporated.



Pour half of batter into prepared pan.  Spread half of apples over it.  Pour the remaining batter over the apples and arrange the remaining apples on top.  Bake for about 1 1/2 hours, or until a tester comes out clean.