McCurdy's Department Store Apple Cake

Recipe from Sherrie Zebrascky, McCurdy's Department Store Home Economist, as found in the Rochester Junior League Cook Book Applehood and Motherpie

Course Desserts and Sweets

Cuisine Upstate New York Regional Dishes and Local Recipes

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1 10

Servings -12 Servings

Calories 573kcal

Author Jennifer Morrisey

Equipment

Ingredients

Apple Spice Cake

1-1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 cup plain wheat germ
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
2-3 large apples
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 cups sugar
1-1/4 cups oil
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup chopped walnuts

Cream Cheese Frosting

4 ounces cream cheese softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups confectioners sugar
2 teaspoons apple juice

Instructions

Apple Spice Cake

Preheat oven to 350° F.
Combine flour, wheat germ, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Set aside
Pare and shred enough apples to equal 3½ cups. Combine with the lemon juice in a large bowl of cold water.*
Blend sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla thoroughly.
Mix in well-drained apples, nuts, and dry ingredients into the sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla mixture.
Pour into a greased bundt or 9x13 pan.
Bake for 40-45 minutes in a 9x13 pan, or 50-55 minutes in a bundt pan, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Blend Cream Cheese, vanilla, sugar and apple juice until it has reached spreading consistency.
Frost cooled cake.
Garnish with chopped walnuts if desired.

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Notes

Apple Spice cake can be made ahead and frozen before frosting.

*I found it unnessecary to soak the apples in ice water with lemon, if you work quickly, you can get the apples shredded and measured out long before they start to brown.

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