Grammy's Recipe Book Desserts
Apple Cake with Caramel Sauce
- Prep
- 30 min
- Cook
- 1 hr 15 min
- Rest
- 30 mincool, then pour on the caramel
- Total
- 2 hr 15 minstart to eating
Times are our estimates for Grammy's recipe, with unhurried prep.
As written
Word for word from her page, with her spelling and line breaks. [?] marks a word we couldn't read.
Apple Cake Linda Martin / Nude[?]
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups veg oil
2 TSP of vanilla
3 cups flour
1 TSP salt
1 TSP. baking soda
3 cups chopped apple's
1 cup chopped pecans
Mix in above order
1 hr 15 min
tube pan
[in red ink]
Caramel Sauce
1/4 cup butter
1/4 milk
1 cup packed brown sugar [?]
Combine all ingredients in saucepan
boil 3 minutes stir constantly
cool slightly and pour over cake
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups veg oil
2 TSP of vanilla
3 cups flour
1 TSP salt
1 TSP. baking soda
3 cups chopped apple's
1 cup chopped pecans
Mix in above order
1 hr 15 min
tube pan
[in red ink]
Caramel Sauce
1/4 cup butter
1/4 milk
1 cup packed brown sugar [?]
Combine all ingredients in saucepan
boil 3 minutes stir constantly
cool slightly and pour over cake
Grammy's recipe
Her recipe, typed out to cook from: her amounts and her words, with abbreviations spelled out and the steps numbered.
Ingredients
Cake
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 1½ cups vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 cups chopped apples
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Caramel sauce
- ¼ cup butter
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
Method
- Mix the cake ingredients in the order listed.
- Bake in a greased tube pan for 1 hour 15 minutes.
- For the sauce: combine the butter, milk and brown sugar in a saucepan and boil 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Cool the sauce slightly and pour it over the cake.
Modernized
A present-day cookbook version, with missing steps filled in. These are suggestions, not her words.
Ingredients
Cake
- 3 large eggs
- 1¾ cups sugar
- 1¼ cups neutral oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 cups (375 g) all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 cups peeled, chopped apples
- 1 cup chopped pecans, toasted
Caramel sauce
- ¼ cup butter
- ¼ cup milk or heavy cream
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- Pinch of salt
Method
- Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube or Bundt pan.
- Beat the eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla until combined.
- Stir in the flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon, then fold in the apples and pecans. The batter is thick.
- Spread in the pan and bake 1 hour 10–15 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
- Cool 20 minutes in the pan, then turn out.
- Caramel: boil the butter, milk, brown sugar and salt for 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Cool slightly and pour over the cake.
Ideas to play with
Twists and variations to try. Suggestions, not hers.
Warm with ice cream
Serve slices warm with vanilla ice cream and extra caramel.
Salted caramel
Sprinkle flaky salt over the caramel once it’s poured.
Mini Bundts
Bake in mini Bundt pans for 30–35 minutes for individual gifts.
Apple cider caramel
Reduce 1 cup cider to ¼ cup and use it in place of the milk.