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Margaret's Cantina Apple Walnut Cake with Caramel Sauce
1 1/4 C. walnut pieces
3 C. unbleached all purpose flour
1 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
2 t. cinnamon
1 t. freshly grated nutmeg
Juice of 1 lemon
3 medium tart apples (see Note)
2 C. sugar
1 1/2 C. canola oil
3 eggs
1 1/2 t. vanilla
Caramel Sauce (recipe below)
Whipped cream, optional
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Coat a Bundt pan with Baker's Joy spray, or lightly grease and flour pan.
Spread walnut pieces on a cookie sheet or shallow ovenproof pan. Toast walnuts
in oven, stirring occasionally to brown evenly, about 10 minutes, until lightly
browned. Set aside.
In a bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg; set
aside.
In a large nonreactive bowl, combine lemon juice and 3 or 4 cups cold water.
Peel apples and cut into 1/2-inch dice, then put in lemon-water solution to
prevent browning. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, cream together sugar and oil with an electric mixer. Add eggs
one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Add vanilla, then add flour mixture, and mix until it is mostly incorporated.
When batter begins to get stiff, remove whip or beaters and finish mixing with a
rubber spatula. Drain apples well and fold into the batter along with the
walnuts.
Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan and bake about 45 minutes until a toothpick
or knife blade inserted near the center comes out clean. Remove cake from oven
and let cool in the pan for 10 to 15 minutes before inverting onto a platter.
With a paring knife, cut deep slits all over the cake. Ladle Caramel Sauce
generously over the cake so that it soaks into the slits and glazes the outside.
Serve cake warm with additional Caramel Sauce and, if desired, whipped cream.
Cake keeps well at room temperature.
Margaret Lundy most often uses an heirloom apple called Arkansas black, but any
tart variety such as Stayman or Granny Smith may be substituted.
Makes 12 servings.
Caramel Sauce
1/2 lb. unsalted butter
1 C. sugar
1 C. brown sugar
1 C. heavy whipping cream
Pinch salt
1 t. vanilla
In a heavy saucepan, melt butter, sugar, brown sugar and cream over medium heat,
whisking as it comes to a boil. Boil for about 1 minute, then remove from heat.
Stir in salt and vanilla.
Store covered in the refrigerator. Sauce may be reheated in a microwave oven.
This sauce is also great on vanilla ice cream.
Makes 3 1/2 cups.
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