Apple Cake
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Desserts
Ingredients
- Butter, for greasing the pan
- 2 cup Sugar
- 3 Egg
- 1 1/2 cup Vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup Orange juice
- 3 cup Flour, all-purpose
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Cinnamon, ground
- 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
- 3 cup Apple, peeled and finely chopped
- 1 cup Coconut, shredded
- 1 cup Pecans, chopped
- 1/2 cup Butter, 1 stick, for the sauce
- 1 cup Sugar, for the sauce
- 1/2 cup Buttermilk, for the sauce
- 1/2 tsp Baking soda, for the sauce
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F and generously grease a tube pan.
- In a large bowl mix the sugar, eggs, oil, orange juice, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and vanilla well. Fold in the apples, coconut and pecans.
- Pour into the pan and bake until a tester comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours.
- Shortly before the cake is done, melt the butter in a large saucepan, stir in the sugar, buttermilk and baking soda and bring to a good rolling boil, stirring constantly. Boil 1 minute.
- Pour the sauce over the hot cake in the pan as soon as it comes out of the oven. Let stand 1 hour, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.