Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Icing

Ingredients

For the Cake

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1-1/2 cups canola oil
• 3 eggs
• 2-1/4 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups chopped pecans
• 3 cups finely chopped apples (peeled)

For the Brown Sugar Icing

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/4 cup milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. (Do not mistake a 10-inch tube pan for a Bundt pan; this recipe will overflow a Bundt pan.)
3. Combine flour, baking soda and salt.
4. Stir well, and set aside.
5. Combine oil, eggs, sugar and vanilla.
6. Beat at medium speed for 3 minutes.
7. Add dry ingredients at low speed. Batter will be thick.
8. Add pecans and apples at low speed.
9. Pour batter into prepared tube pan, and bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean when inserted in center of cake.
10. While cake is baking, make the icing by combining butter, brown sugar and milk in a heavy saucepan
11. Over medium-high heat, bright mixture to a full boil
12. Cook, stirring constantly, for 3 minutes
13. Let cool
14. Remove cake from oven and cool in pan for 10 minutes, then invert onto a serving plate and remove pan.
15. Drizzle Brown Sugar Icing over warm cake.

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• Catsrecipes Y-Group