Apple Cake

This moist cake is great as coffee cake or dress it up for dessert with a scoop of vanilla or cinnamon ice cream. Adapted from Perfect Cakes by Nick Malgieri.

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Ingredients:

• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 large eggs
• 6 large Golden Delicious apples (about 3 lbs), peeled, halved, cored, coarsely grated, and sprinkled with 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1½ tsp vanilla extract
• Confectioner’s sugar, for finishing

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350º F. Line a 9x13-inch baking pan with buttered foil that extends an inch or so above the rim of thepan. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl, mixing well. In a separate large bowl, whisk the eggs to breakthem up, then whisk in 3/4 cup of sugar, oil, and vanilla. Using a rubber spatula, stir in the flour mixture.

Place half of the mixture in the prepared pan. With a floured hand, press it into an even layer. Cover the remainingmixture and chill in the freezer, for about 20 minutes, until firm.

Meanwhile, combine the 1/2 cup of sugar and cinnamon, mixing well. Sprinkle the apples with half of the cinnamonsugar and spread them evenly over the cake in the pan. Grate chilled cake mixture through the coarse holes of a boxgrater over the apples. Avoid pressing down or moving the mixture around too much to avoid compressing it. Sprinklethe top with remaining cinnamon sugar.

Bake for about 1 hour, or until the top of the cake is crisp and deep golden and the apples are bubbling. Cool in the panon a cooling rack. To unmold, lift the cooled cake by the foil onto a cutting board, then slide the foil out from under thecake. Cut the cake into two-inch squares, and just before serving dust with confectioner’s sugar. Leftovers are best re-heated and cooled before serving. This cake also freezes well. Makes 24 servings

Per serving: 176 calories; 26% calories from fat; 5g total fat; < 1g saturated fat; 18mg cholesterol; 85mg sodium; 30g carbohydrates; 3g protein