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Old-Fashioned Apple Cake Recipe

Everyone enjoys biting into this moist dark cake—they're greeted with an abundance of apples, nuts and chocolate chips! I hope you try this home-style dessert today.—Iola Egle, Bella Vista, Arkansas

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Old-Fashioned Apple Cake Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 1 hour + cooling

Yield: 12-15 Servings

20 60 80

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 medium tart apples, peeled and shredded
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
CARDAMOM SUGAR:
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom

Directions

In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in water and extracts. Combine dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture. stir in apples, walnuts and chips. Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 325° for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes; remove to a wire rack. Combine sugar and cardamom in a blender; process for 1 minute. Sprinkle 3-5 tablespoons over cooled cake. Store remaining sugar in an airtight container for another use. Yield: 12-15 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 piece) equals 418 calories, 20 g fat (9 g saturated fat), 75 mg cholesterol, 285 mg sodium, 57 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 6 g protein.

Originally published as Old-Fashioned Apple Cake in Taste of Home October/November 1997, p41