Apple Dapple Cake w/ Brown Sugar Glaze
By msippigrl
Moist apple cake with fresh apples and pecans and a sweet praline-like drizzle.
Ingredients
- Cake batter:
- 1 1/2 cups sugar (up to 2 cups if using tart apples)
- 3 extra-large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable or canola oil (I used canola)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups self-rising flour
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 3 cups peeled and chopped apples (about 3 medium)(I used Honey Crisp variety)
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
- 8 pecan halves for pan, optional
- Glaze:
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
- 1 cup packed brown sugar (I used dark)
- 1/4 cup whole milk or half-and-half
Preparation
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Generously butter and flour a 12-cup Bundt cake pan. Arrange pecan halves (upside down) in the bottom of the pan, if desired. Set pan aside.
In a large mixing bowl and using a mixer, beat together the sugar, eggs, and oil until creamy, 3-4 minutes. Beat in the vanilla. Sift the flour over the egg mixture in the bowl; add cinnamon and nutmeg and combine well. (I used a rubber spatula first (to reduce the flour dust) then used the mixer to finish combining.)
Peel and chop the apples; then gently fold apples and pecans into the batter with a spatula. CAREFULLY spoon (so the pecans don't shift) a heaping tablespoon of the batter over each pecan half in the pan. Pour the remaining batter into the pan.
Bake in the center of the oven for 50-60 minutes, or until center tests done with a toothpick. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then loosen the cake from the pan and turn out onto a serving plate, pecan side up.
In the meantime, make the Glaze:
Melt the butter in a medium non-stick saucepan over medium heat; add the brown sugar and milk and bring to a boil, at first bubble cook for exactly 2 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat and whisk for 2-3 minutes to cool slightly.
If you haven't done so already, turn the cake out onto a serving plate. Slowly drizzle the glaze over the cake. Use any leftover glaze to drizzle over individual slices at serving.
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