Comfort Me with Cake
If hours in the kitchen are an ebb and flow, it's ebb time around here. Burritos, rice, tuna melts, an apple distractedly cut and distributed, groceries ordered online at midnight. Thankfully, miraculously, I'm busy with work. When I'm not doing it, I'm thinking or dreaming about it.
Or taking a cake-baking break . Baked this for a fundraiser last weekend, and it was sold in minutes. (Horn-tooting! My own horn!) Then I came home and regretted not having any for myself. So I made this version, kid-friendly, without nuts or chai or those meddlesome dried fruits. Now I'm working in the library, dropping crumbs all over my keyboard, scheming about getting back to the kitchen. It comforts me just to think about it.
Apple Bundt Cake with Cinnamon Glaze
Fall in a slice. Gone in a flash.
For cake:
3 c. flour
1 ts. baking soda
1/2 ts. salt
1 ts. cinnamon
1 ts. ground ginger
1 c. sugar
1 c. brown sugar
1 1/2 c. vegetable oil
3 eggs
4 Tb. brandy or dark rum
3 large or 4 medium apples, cut into 1/4″ dice
For glaze:
1 c. sifted powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 Tb. milk or cream (+ a little more if needed)
Preheat oven to 350. If you have a convection oven (I do. How I adore it.), bundt cakes are good things to use them on so the outside doesn’t get a lot more done than the inside. If you don’t have convection, just watch it carefully.
Butter and flour a bundt pan.
Mix flour, soda, salt, and cinnamon together in a medium bowl.
In a large bowl, mix sugars, vegetable oil, eggs, and brandy. Add flour mixture and mix until just combined. Add apples and stir until just combined.
Spoon into bundt pan and bake for about 60 minutes (maybe longer, depending on your oven), or until an inserted skewer comes out with a few moist crumbs on it. Let cool in pan for 20 minutes, then turn out onto a plate.
For glaze, whisk powdered sugar and milk together, adding a little more if needed. You want it so it's just barely pourable. Spoon over cake after cake has cooled.
October 5, 2010
Reader Comments (10)
Ooh, I made your Apple Chai Spice Cake yesterday, to rave reviews all around. Funny thing is that I totally used babysitter time to make it - I was FRIED from work (I'm a freelance writer, working from home) and decided baking might help rejuvenate me. And indeed it did. ;)
Sarah,
I was planning on baking your chai apple spice cake from last fall, but I think I will make this today instead!
I love a good apple bundt cake!
Sarah! This looks so divine. It's rainy and cold here in Southern CA and this is going to warm my kitchen right up!!
Yum. This looks so fall. Good luck tomorrow and friday Sarah-I'll be thinking about you.
This sounds delicious! Could I make this without a bundt pan? I don't have one. :(
You know, I was about to write "better than apples, any day". Then you had to go throw in apples.
THEN I had to applause, madly, because I'm drowning in apples at the moment, and this is a prayer, answered.
Danke!
What would you suggest if I don't have the liquor?
I'd love to make this cake but don't want to go to the store just for booze ;-)
So, I made this yesterday. Instead of one big ole bundt cake, I made four mini bundts and five cupcakes. I then delivered a few mini bundts. Yummy! I only had light rum but it still turned out great. Thanks for the harvest recipe. :)
By the way, your dad delivered an awesome sermon today.
Mini bundts? So cute. I'll have to make sure and meet you next time I visit my dad's church.
Just leave it out!