Charlene's Recipe

Apple-Pecan Cake

Category: Mountains

2 1/2 cup shortening
5 cups sugar
2 1/2 cup brown sugar
10 eggs
12 1/2 cup sifted flour
10 tsp baking powder
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 tsp salt
5 cup pared, chopped apples
5 cup milk
5 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cup pecan halves

Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease 9x12 inch pan. Cream shortening and sugars; add the beaten eggs. Sift the flour (which should be sifted at the time it is measured) with the baking powder, baking soda and salt; fold into the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Add vanilla and fold in chopped apples. Pour mixture into pans and sprinkle with pecans and a little more brown sugar. Bake until a knife inserted in center comes out clean. Do not overbake. Serve on individual cake plats with whipped cream.