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Apple cake

Apple Cake

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You can't argue with tasty apples in nice, warm cake!
Course Dessert
Cuisine Canadian
Keyword apples, cake, dessert

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter - soft
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 egg - beaten
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 4 apples - peeled, cored, and chopped

Vanilla Glaze

  • 1/4 cup butter - softened
  • 1 1/2 cup icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp hot water

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 325F (150C).
  • Grease an 8" x 8" square Pyrex dish with butter.
  • Cream together butter, salt and sugar. Beat in the egg and mix well. Add dry ingredients (which have been mixed together) and mix well. Add chopped apple. Mixture is quite thick and very apple-ly. Spread evenly in dish.
    Apple cake mixture spread in baking dish
  • Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean.
    Apple cake baked but not iced
  • While still warm top with a vanilla glaze (see below).
    Apple cake baked and iced

Vanilla Glaze

  • Melt butter in saucepan. Stir in the icing sugar and vanilla. Then add the water, 1 tbsp at a time, until glaze is of proper consistency.