Fresh Apple Cake With Sweetened Butter Sauce

This recipe came from an old premier issue of "For the Love of Cross Stitch" magazine-I'd like to make it sometime.

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 9-12
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 4  cups baking apples, peeled and sliced
• 2  cups sugar
• 2  cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2  teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 2  large eggs
• 3⁄4 cup  vegetable oil
• 2  teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1  cup pecans, chopped

• SWEET BUTTER SAUCE INGREDIENTS

• 1⁄2 cup margarine (1 stick)
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1⁄2 cup heavy whipping cream (1/2 cup canned evaporated milk may be substituted for the whipping cream)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Grease a 9-inch-by 13-inch baking pan; set aside.
3. In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the apples and 2 cups sugar.
4. In another medium mixing bowl, thoroughly combine the flour, soda, cinnamon, and salt.
5. Add the flour mixture to the apple-sugar mixture; stir well; set aside.
6. Place the eggs into a small mixing bowl and beat well with an electric mixer or hand held egg beater. Add the oil and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; beat.
7. Stir the egg mixture into the apple mixture, blending until thoroughly moistened.
8. Stir in the pecans.
9. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly pressed. Serve with warm Sweet Butter Sauce.
10. SWEET BUTTER SAUCE INSTRUCTIONS: In a small, heavy-duty saucepan, over low heat, melt the magarine. Add the sugar, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream or evaporated milk; stir. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat and cook 3 minutes. Serve warm.