Amish Apple Cake With Hot Caramel Sauce

"This is one of our favorite cake recipes, originally published in Cooking from Quilt Country by Marcia Adams. I modified the caramel sauce a bit and increased the amount of the sauce since it is so wonderful! The cake keeps well and can be reheated briefly in the microwave. Extra caramel sauce is divine over ice cream!"
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
15
Serves:
8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a large bowl, cream the butter.
  • Add the sugar and beat until fluffy.
  • Add egg and beat until blended, then mix in the baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
  • Add the flour and stir just until blended.
  • Stir in the apples and nuts.
  • Pour into an oiled 9 inch round cake pan (I use a glass pie plate) and bake for 30 minutes or until the top springs back when touched lightly in the center.
  • Prepare sauce.
  • In a saucepan, melt the butter, brown sugar, and salt.
  • Bring to a boil, stirring with a whisk, then remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla and the cream.
  • (The sauce can be made ahead of time and reheated over hot water.) Serve the cake warm with the hot caramel sauce and a dollop of whipped cream.
  • The cake gets better as it ages, keeps for a week in the refrigerator, and also freezes well.
  • It can be reheated in the microwave.

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Reviews

  1. I was a big fan of Marcia Adams and have made this cake for years. It's moist and spicy and delicious. A real family favorite. The sauce keeps in the refrigerator and can be reheated.
     
  2. This was delicious. My nine-year-old son said it was waaaaaaaay better, even, than apple pie. And I added, "and it was less work!" <br/><br/>I, too, remarked on how the dough was more like cookie dough, so the direction to "pour" the batter into the cake pan was not taken literally. It should read more like, "spoon the dough" into a pan.<br/><br/>I used half and half in the sauce, 'cuz that was all I had. Still was delicious. You could put this sauce on cardboard and eat it.<br/><br/><br/>Oh, and make two cakes - it'll go fast!<br/><br/><br/>The only reason why I gave it 4 stars instead of five was that:<br/>a) I found the cook time too short, or maybe my oven was colder than 350. It went an extra 10 minutes and the middle was still fairly raw. But that was OK, as I am the kind of person who prefers batter and dough to the baked version of nearly anything!<br/><br/><br/>b) the sauce recipe was WAY too much. If you LOVE sugar and like to drown stuff in frosting or glaze, then make as directed. If you do not have a raving sweet tooth, halving the amount of the sauce (which is KILLER, by the way) will be just fine.
     
  3. Wow, I can't believe no-one has reviewed this yet, it was absolutely incredible! I was a bit concerned while making it, as the dough resembled my cookie dough, more than cake dough, but what resulted was a very dense, deliciously spiced cake. I substituted walnuts for the pecans, because that was what I had on hand, and I used whipping cream for the 'heavy cream'. I'm pretty sure they are one and the same, but we don't have 'heavy cream' here, and at 35% butterfat whipping cream was the heaviest I could find. The caramel sauce was delicious, and the combination of the rich cake, creamy sweet warm caramel and cold, fresh whipped cream was heaven. An excellent fall dessert the entire family loved - I plan to keep it in the 'make often' section of my recipe file box.
     
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  1. Wow, I can't believe no-one has reviewed this yet, it was absolutely incredible! I was a bit concerned while making it, as the dough resembled my cookie dough, more than cake dough, but what resulted was a very dense, deliciously spiced cake. I substituted walnuts for the pecans, because that was what I had on hand, and I used whipping cream for the 'heavy cream'. I'm pretty sure they are one and the same, but we don't have 'heavy cream' here, and at 35% butterfat whipping cream was the heaviest I could find. The caramel sauce was delicious, and the combination of the rich cake, creamy sweet warm caramel and cold, fresh whipped cream was heaven. An excellent fall dessert the entire family loved - I plan to keep it in the 'make often' section of my recipe file box.
     

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