German Apple Cake

"A traditional favorite!"
 
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Ready In:
1hr 5mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
15
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ingredients

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directions

  • To prepare cake, cream together shortening, sugars and eggs.
  • Add dry ingredients and sour cream and mix well; fold in apples.
  • Pour batter into greased 9 x 13-inch baking pan.
  • To prepare topping, mix all ingredients.
  • Sprinkle over cake batter before baking.
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes.

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Reviews

  1. A nice moist apple cake, I used 1 cup sugar (half white,half brown) in the batter, also reduced the sugars in the topping! The finished cake was cinnamony!! is that a word? and delicious!!
     
  2. Great moist cake! I also reduced sugars to 1 cup for the cake but not the topping. The sweet toasted pecans stood out in contrast with the more delicate apple and cinnamon flavors. Like other reviewers, I substituted butter for shortening and buttermilk for sour cream. My friends thought it was heaven served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
     
  3. Delicious. Very cinnamon and I love that. I used more apples than listed because they needed to be used up. Also, I subbed butter for the shortening and plain yogurt for the sour cream but otherwise kept the amounts the same. I omitted the nuts, and was very happy to find the cinnamon sugar made a delicate sugary crust - the combo of brown and white sugar was really good. What can I say? YUMMY!
     
  4. I made this cake yesterday and everyone loved it. It is the best apple cake I have ever made, I have never managed to make a good one til now. I didn't have shortening and sour cream so used butter ( a touch over 4 oz's) and buttermilk. Although it is really lovely, flavorsome and moist as it is next time I will add a handful of raisins and walnuts in the mix and maybe a cup or two more of apple. Thanks very much for a lovely recipe!
     
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  1. Delicious. Very cinnamon and I love that. I used more apples than listed because they needed to be used up. Also, I subbed butter for the shortening and plain yogurt for the sour cream but otherwise kept the amounts the same. I omitted the nuts, and was very happy to find the cinnamon sugar made a delicate sugary crust - the combo of brown and white sugar was really good. What can I say? YUMMY!
     

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