German Apple Cake

(from Ryan77’s recipe box)

Source: Joanne Fluke

Categories: Cake

Ingredients

  • 4 cups peeled and sliced apples (4 or 5 medium size apples)
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup oil
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 2 t cinnamon
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (pack it down in the cup when you measure it)
  • Frosting
  • 8 ounce package softened cream cheese
  • 2 t vanilla
  • 1 T lemon juice
  • 4 T melted butter
  • 2 cups powdered sugar

Directions

  1. eheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a 9×13 cake pan.

  2. Peel, core, and slice the apples as you would for a pie. Place the sliced apples on the bottom of the prepared cake pan.

  3. In a medium sized bowl, whisk the eggs with the oil until they’re thick.

  4. Then add the sugar and beat it in. Mix in the vanilla, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Mix thoroughly.

  5. Add the flour in one-cup increments, mixing after each cup.

  6. Scrape down the bowl, give a final stir with a spoon, and then drop the batter over the apples in spoonfuls. (Don’t worry if it doesn’t completely cover the apples-the batter will spread out during baking)

  7. Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes. Cool the cake in the pan on a cold burner or a wire rack.

  8. For the frosting, stir the vanilla into the cream cheese. Then add the lemon juice and the melted butter. Mix until it’s smooth. Beat in the powdered sugar in half-cup increments, checking the consistency after each addition. When the mixture is the consistency of frosting, stop adding sugar. Frost your cooled German Apple Cake.

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