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Apple cake.
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Mom’s Apple-Walnut Cake Recipe

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A simple, classic apple cake recipe for Rosh Hashanah.

  • Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
  • Yield: 2 cakes

Ingredients

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  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup canola oil
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 cups Golden Delicious or Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and chopped
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • turbinado sugar, for sprinkling on top

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Combine flour, salt, cinnamon and baking soda in a medium bowl and set aside.
  3. In a second bowl, mix together sugar, oil and vanilla. Add eggs one at a time and stir to combine. Pour wet mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until thoroughly combined. Fold in apples and walnuts (the batter will be thick).
  4. Grease two loaf pans and spread half of the batter into each pan. Sprinkle the tops of each loaf with a little sugar and bake for approximately 1 hour, or until a toothpick stuck in the middle of the cake comes out clean.

Notes

  • This moist, hearty cake also works really well poured into muffin cups.
  • If you prefer to serve it as a healthy breakfast or brunch cake instead of dessert, replace one cup of flour with whole wheat flour and fold 1/4 cup finely ground flax seeds into the batter along with the apples and walnuts.
  • Author: Leah Koenig
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 1 hour
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: Holiday