Spiced Apple Dessert
Drizzled with warm caramel sauce, this classic and comforting, old-fashioned dessert is an heirloom recipe. “It was passed down from my Great-Aunt Syd,” writes Anne Livingston from Evanston, Illinois. “It’s so good in wintertime and no one ever guesses it’s as light as it is!” TASTY TIP Chopped pecans make an easy but elegant substitute in this recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup Sugar In The Raw
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 2 cups shredded peeled tart apples
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- CARAMEL SAUCE:
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Reviews
This is a superb recipe!!!Although the 1 cup sugar is way too sweet for the proportion. I found it tastier when it is a lot less sweeter so I cut the sugar into 1/2 a cup per 1 cup flour.And may even taper the sugar amount further if the caramel sauce is going to be used.Thank you so much, I served this to our community who comes to our Sunday services at the church.Indeed a blessing to us!Blessings to you all as well in Christ!
This is perhaps the best recipe I have found. It was super easy to make. I baked it a little over thirty minutes till the cake firmed up enough. The sauce was very good. I definitely will use it with other things. My family was surprised to find this cake had no butter or oil. It was so rich and moist, yet comforting in texture and body. I can't say enough about how good it is! Thank you so much for sharing a recipe that I plan to make often.
I had a whole bunch of apples I needed to use before they went bad. This was the perfect recipe and a hit for the company we had over.
Great-tasting down-home dessert! Easy, too!
Absolutely amazing! Made as written with pecans in place of the walnuts. Either part would be wonderful by itself, but together it blows your mind! Caramel sauce is husbands new favorite for anything using caramel. Whole thing is the whole family's favorite!
Yum!! I made this recipe exactly as written (substituting pecans for walnuts). Very moist and delicious! A great comfort dessert for a brisk autumn evening! Plus the house smelled wonderful while it baked!
I loved this dessert, it was quick and easy to do and found it very moist.
I added 1 tablespoon canola oil and 2 tablespoons of applesauce. I omitted the walnuts due to family's allergies. I used about 3 cups of shredded McIntosh apples. It took longer than 30 minutes to bake but the cake turned out very moist. Poured carmel sauce over cake about 5 minutes after removing it from oven. Everyone loved it. I plan to use the carmel sauce for other cakes.