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| Let me begin by saying I have never tasted this cake....only made it once for a friend....but it sure smelled wonderful... After posting a picture on Facebook I was asked for the recipe so here it is..... Of Course my middle name is "Sandra Lee" so You know that a box mix had to be involved.... |
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| I started with this box of Pillsbury Caramel Apple Cake Mix... Walmart seems to have every possible variation of cake mixes on the Planet....My friend who got to eat the cake (and who I asked to critique it) Thought it was Spice Cake....but I can assume that somewhere it had the taste of apple... |
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| I dragged out these ingredients with the thought of sautéing some wonderful "Mutsu" apples I had just gotten at the local farmers market... I love Mutsu apples for baking and they are exceptional in apple strudel if you ever come across them... The Apple Strudel...BTW....I do make from scratch... I'm not totally lazy.... Back to the Apple...A Mutsu is also called a "Crispin" apple....it's half a Golden Delicious that's been bred with some Japanese apple....In any case it's wonderful....If you have never tried them and you ever see them.....buy some.... |
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| When baking something that you want people to think you made by scratch it always helps to use a fancy pan.... This is the MaryAnn pan from Williams Sonoma.. Daughter gave it to me years ago and I can't tell you all the wonderful cakes I have baked in it... Certainly worth buying one...You will use it Over and Over.... You can fill that top part with all kinds of stuff.... Think flavored whipped cream and strawberries in the summer.... Hershey's Chocolate pudding mixed with Real Whipped Cream on top of a Devils Food Cake for the Winter.... And sautéed apples for the Fall... So I made the cake according to the box... This pan does need a good spraying of cooking spray.. I use the baking kind that has the flour in the spray... Let the cake cool before you flip it out....it can be Tricky... |
I sautéed two large apples in Good
Butter...
Cut in to slices....
I added a genorous sprinkling of
Cinnamon....and some brown sugar...
about 1/2 cup...and cooked them
until very tender....these apples break down
pretty fast so this did not take long at all...
I pre-cook apples when I make pies and
strudels also...it prevents the dough
from over baking and the apples cooked
perfectly...
I then chopped up some walnuts for a
fabulous topping I planned to use....
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| A bit blurry.... But this is a crumb cake mixture that is similar to the Jersey Crumb cake recipe and I added the Walnuts... Here's how you make this... |
