Grammy's Recipe Book Desserts

Hunter Mountain German Apple Cake

350°F ovenone tube pan

Prep
35 min
Cook
1 hr
Rest
30 mincool
Total
2 hr 5 minstart to eating

Times are our estimates for Grammy's recipe, with unhurried prep.

Grammy's handwritten page for Hunter Mountain German Apple Cake
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As written

Word for word from her page, with her spelling and line breaks. [?] marks a word we couldn't read.

Hunter Mountain German Apple Cake

350° oven - tube pan

In a large bowl mix:
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup veg. oil
1/2 tsp vanilla

Add: 2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon

Fold in: 5 cups sliced apples
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Batter will be very heavy. Spoon
into greased tube pan and
bake 1 hour.

Grammy's recipe

Her recipe, typed out to cook from: her amounts and her words, with abbreviations spelled out and the steps numbered.

Ingredients

Mix

  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cups sugar
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla

Add

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Fold in

  • 5 cups sliced apples
  • ½ cup chopped nuts

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 350° and grease a tube pan.
  2. In a large bowl, mix the eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla.
  3. Add the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
  4. Fold in the apples and nuts. The batter will be very heavy.
  5. Spoon into the tube pan and bake 1 hour.

Modernized

A present-day cookbook version, with missing steps filled in. These are suggestions, not her words.

Ingredients

Batter

  • 3 large eggs
  • 1¾ cups sugar
  • ½ cup neutral oil
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Fold in

  • 5 cups peeled, thinly sliced apples (about 5; a mix of Granny Smith and Honeycrisp)
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans, toasted

To finish

  • Confectioners’ sugar

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube or Bundt pan.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla until thick.
  3. Stir in the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. The batter will be very thick.
  4. Fold in the apples and nuts until every slice is coated.
  5. Spoon into the pan and press it level. Bake 60–70 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
  6. Cool 20 minutes in the pan, turn out, and dust with confectioners’ sugar.

Ideas to play with

Twists and variations to try. Suggestions, not hers.

  • Caramel drizzle

    Pour the caramel sauce from the Apple Cake with Caramel Sauce recipe over it.

  • 9×13 sheet cake

    Bake in a greased 9×13 pan for 45–50 minutes and serve in squares.

  • Pears

    Use firm pears, or half pears and half apples, with a little ground ginger.

  • Cinnamon sugar top

    Sprinkle 2 tablespoons cinnamon sugar over the batter before baking for a crackly crust.