Nearly Dead Apple Cake

I am really excited to be contributing to this fabbo blog and thought that I would share a NON-Christmas recipe first because I am totally in Christmas overload at the moment and couldn't handle the sight of more cloves, cinnamon, ginger, orange yule-tideness. 

This cake is pretty simple to make and stays moist out on a cake plate under a dome for a good while (if I actually lasts that long)! It is a great way to use up those apples lurking in the back of the crisper drawer, hence NEARLY DEAD APPLE cake.  The recipe is a family favourite of mine, my Italian Grandmother inherited it from an old Jewish lady whose house she used to clean.  This is a good, dense, moist, rustic cake. 

Ingredients:

(for apple layer)

4 apples, cored and thiny sliced

1/3 cup white sugar

1 Tbsp cinnamon

(for cake batter)

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

zest of one orange

1 1/2 cup white sugar

3 eggs

2/3 cup vegetable oil

3 Tbsp orange juice

2 tsp vanilla

***Grease and line a springform pan*** (I use a 8" pan, my mum uses a 9" springform tube pan)

PRE HEAT OVEN to 375 f / 190C

-Peel, core and thiny slice apples

-toss apples with sugar and cinnamon

-set aside

-In a small bowl mix together flour, baking powder and salt

-In a large bowl mix orange peel and sugar, add eggs, vegetable oil, orange juice and vanilla, mix to combine.

-Add flour mixture, fold in slowly (don't over mix)

-Pour 1/2 of mixture into base of pan

-Layer apples over top

-Spread leftover batter over apple layer (might not cover completely, that's ok)

Bake middle rack of oven for 1 hour (or until tester comes out clean)

***Let cool completely before taking out of pan***

Enjoy xo