Recipes/Desserts/Apple Cake and Sauce

From Original cookbook page 66

Apple Cake and Sauce

A desserts favorite from the Martell family cookbook, shared by Lee Ann Gansmiller.

Prep Not listedCook 45 minTotal 45 minYield not listed
Method

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Method

  1. Mix sugar and apples, stir and let stand until sugar is dissolved, about 45 minutes.
  2. Add the egg and beat well. Sift dry ingredients together and stir into apple mixture.
  3. Add nuts. Pour into 8 x 8-inch pan and bake 40 minutes at 375°F. Immediately cover with sauce.

Sauce

  1. Mix together the sugars and flour, add to melted butter and water. Then add vanilla.
  2. Bring to boil and pour over cake. Frosting will harden on cake.
Family note

What makes this ours

I don't let the apples and sugar set 45 minutes. I cut the apples in small pieces and add the sugar and stir, the let it set while I mix the dry ingredients in another bowl. I chop the nuts. In that time the sugar is usually dissolved. I usually double the recipe and use a 9 x 11" cake pan. I start the sauce about the middle of the baking time of the cake, so it is ready to pour on the cake when it comes out of the oven. Back when the children were small, we bought apples by the bushel and stored them on our enclosed porch The boys would take a couple of bites of an apple and leave it. We couldn't afford to waste them. I needed something to do with them besides make applesauce. I found this recipe in Martha Dixon's Cookbook. Everyone in the family likes this apple cake with the sauce on top.

LARecipe contributed byLee Ann Gansmiller