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Cooking Recipes
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Desserts
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Honey Apple Cake
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| Ingredients: |
- 1/2 cup Dried apples,chop coarsely
- 1/2 cup Dried pears, chop coarsely
- 1/4 cup Apple cider
- 1 lg Orange,juiced & rind grated
- 3 Extra large eggs
- 1 cup Granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup Vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup Orange blossom honey
- 1/2 cup Strong coffee
- 3 cup All-purpose flour, measure after sifting
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 2 tsp Baking powder
- 1 tsp Ground cinnamon
- 1 cup Golden raisins
- 1 cup Pecans, coarsely chopped
- Confectioners' sugar
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| Directions: |
- Makes one 9 x 13-inch cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees with the rack in the center position of oven. Grease and flour a 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan. Place the dried apples and pears, the apple cider, the orange juice and grated rind in a small saucepan and simmer until the apples have absorbed most of the liquid. Set aside to cool slightly.
- In the work bowl of an electric mixer or by hand beat the eggs and sugar until thickened and pale yellow. Beat in oil and honey and then coffee. Sift together dry ingredients (including cinnamon) and mix into batter, mixing only until blended. Add the apple mixture, raisins and nuts.
- Bake for 1 hour until the center is firm and tester comes out dry. Cool on a rack and then either invert onto a plate or cut into squares in the pan. Dust with sifted Confectioners' Sugar.
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