By Kevin Williams
Oh wow, this is some good cake. When my mother asked me for a good Amish recipe to use up some apples and walnuts that she had, I looked through my archives and sent her several. When she chose this one I was just "meh." It just didn't seem that great-sounding. But, oh, it is! SIGH, I am weird, I like my desserts cold. So to make this cake even better is to stick it in the fridge. But if you are a room-temperature cake kind of person, it is amazing like that too.
Enjoy!
Make sure you use fresh walnuts and fresh apples and wait until the cake is cool to cut it, otherwise it'll be crumbly.
Mix it up well
Most Amish will use fresh eggs from their supply of hens.
Add the apples
You know, you can really use any type of apple (gasp, I know, the purists would disagree)... My favorite is honeycrisp for this type of a bread, but you can use gala or even granny smith.
add vanilla
Pour into a pan and pop in the oven
delicious!
Enjoy! This is the cake covered with glaze.
And, SIGH, I enjoyed the cake so much that I forgot to take a photo of a slice that was cut. But it's so good, you won't regret making this!
This recipe comes to us from Fannie Petersheim an Amish woman in Waholding, Ohio, an Amish settlement outside of Columbus. The name Petersheim is a fairly common surname in some Amish communities. Waholding, by the way, is a very progressive Amish settlement in terms of technology.
2 cups granulated sugar
3 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups cubed, peeled apples
1 cup chopped nuts
Topping:
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1/4 cup evaporated milk
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
Directions
Mix together well oil, sugar and eggs. Add remaining cake ingredients and mix well again. Pour into greased 13 x 9-inch pan and bake at 350° for 45 to 55 minutes, starting in a cold oven.
Mix together topping ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Pour on cake while still cake is still warm.
- 1¼ cups oil
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups cubed, peeled apples
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- Topping:
- ½ cup (1 stick) butter
- ¼ cup evaporated milk
- 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- Directions
- Mix together well oil, sugar and eggs. Add remaining cake ingredients and mix well again. Pour into greased 13 x 9-inch pan and bake at 350° for 45 to 55 minutes, starting in a cold oven.
- Mix together topping ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Pour on cake while still cake is still warm.
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