Moist Apple Cake

I made Moist Apple Cake yesterday - it was delicious then and tastes even better today. This apple cake recipe is adapted from the cookbook Little Pie Company Of The Big Apple - Pies and Other Dessert Favorites. This simple cake is very tender and full of rich flavor. If desired, you can sprinkle crumble topping over the batter before baking. For a pareve cake, use kosher pareve margarine.

Ingredients for Moist Apple Cake:

• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/2 cup (8 tbsp. or 1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature, or pareve margarine (or a combination)
• 2 large eggs (room temperature)
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 3/4 all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. cinnamon (you may also add 1/2 tsp. ground mace, 1/4 tsp. ground cloves)
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 4 cups apples, peeled and diced (I used Granny Smith, Golden Delicious and a few McIntosh)(I like a lot of apples - I use closer to 5 cups)
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, if desired
• Optional: Add 1/2 cup blueberries, raspberries, raisins or cranberries to the apple mixture
• Optional: Crumb Topping

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13 x 9 inch cake pan.

In a large bowl, cream the sugars with the butter or margarine until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, and vanilla, beating until smooth. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and if desired, mace and cloves. Using a spatula, stir the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture, mixing until combined. The batter will be quite thick and stiff. Stir the apples (plus walnuts and any other fruit) into the batter.

Spread batter into the prepared baking dish. You may sprinkle Crumb Topping over batter - this step is optional.

Bake for 35 minutes until cake is golden brown and a tester inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Let the cake cool. Cover completely - Moist Apple Cake becomes even more moist and flavorful the next day.

Source: Little Pie Company of the Big Apple - Pies and Other Dessert Favorites (1993) by Arnold Wilkerson, Patricia Henly and Michael Deraney

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