Scandinavian Apple Cake

Apple Cake

from Country Home March/April 1997

4 cups peeled, cored, and finely chopped cooking apples

1 cup sugar

1 cup chopped walnuts

2/3 cup butter, melted

2 eggs, slightly beaten

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

3/4 tsp ground allspice

1/4 tsp ground cardamom

1/8 tsp salt

powdered sugar for top

In a large mixing bowl combine apples, sugar, walnuts, and melted butter. Stir in eggs and vanilla. In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, soda, allspice, and salt. Add dry ingredients to apple mixture, stirring just until combined.

Spread the batter into a greased and floured 13X9 pan or a 10-inch fluted tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees F about 30 minutes for 13X9 pan or 50 minutes for tube pan. Sprinkle warm cake with powdered sugar. Serve warm. Makes 12-16 servings.