Best Apple Cake Ever

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 4 medium golden delicious apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
• 5 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 4 large eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 tablespoon orange zest, grated
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• confectioners' sugar, for dusting cake

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f
• 2 grease and flour a 12-cup bundt pan.
• 3 mix the apples, 5 tablespoons sugar and ground cinnamon in a large bowl.
• 4 combine 2 1/2 cups sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, orange juice, orange peel and vanilla extract in another large bowl; whisk to blend.
• 5 stir flour, baking powder and salt into egg mixture.
• 6 spoon 1 1/2 cups batter into prepared bundt pan.
• 7 top with half of apple mixture.
• 8 cover with 1 1/2 cups batter.
• 9 top with remaining apples, then with remaining batter.
• 10 bake cake in preheated oven until top is golden brown and tester inserted near center comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 1 hour 30 minutes.
• 11 cool cake in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes.
• 12 run knife around sides of pan and center tube to loosen.
• 13 turn cake out onto rack.
• 14 cool for 1 hour.
• 15 dust cake with confectioners' sugar.
• 16 serve slightly warm or at room temperature with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, non-dairy whipped topping or whipped cream.
• 17 store any leftover cake covered at room temperature.