Shelly's Recipe

NUTTY APPLE SPICE CAKE

Category: Cakes

Cake:
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
3 cups diced Granny Smith apple (about 3/4 lb)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans, toasted
Cooking spray

Sauce:
1/3 cup golden raisins
1/4 cup dark rum or apple juice
1 (12.25-oz) bottle fat-free butterscotch topping

Preheat oven to 350. To prepare cake, beat sugar, oil, and eggs at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 4 ingredients (flour through nutmeg) in a small bowl. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture, beating just until blended. Fold in apple and walnuts.

Pour batter into a 13 x 9-inch baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake for 55 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Run a knife around outside edge; cool.

To prepare sauce, combine raisins and rum in a microwave-safe bowl; let stand 5 minutes. Stir in butterscotch topping; microwave on high 45 seconds or until hot. Serve cake with sauce.