Shelly's Recipe

APPLE-NUT CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR GLAZE

Category: Cakes

1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3 large eggs
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups peeled, diced cooking apple (about 3 large)
1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

Brown Sugar Glaze
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup whipping cream
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Beat first 3 ingredients until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition.

Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; stir into sugar mixture. Stir in vanilla; fold in apple and walnuts. Pour into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan or 12-cup Bundt pan.
Bake at 325 for 1 hour and 30 to 35 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 20 minutes. Remove from pan, and cool on wire rack. Drizzle with warm Brown Sugar Glaze.

Brown Sugar Glaze: Combine first 4 ingredients in a heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly; boil 1 minute. Stir in vanilla.