fresh apple cake with praline icing (sallye)

How To Make fresh apple cake with praline icing (sallye)

• Step 1
  Preheat oven to 350 degrees Grease and flour bundt or tube pan
• Step 2
  Using medium speed on electric mixer, beat apples, sugar, oil and eggs together in a large mixing bowl, set aside for 30 minutes. Leave apples chunky. NOTE: You can use Granny Smith or other kinds of apples if desired
• Step 3
  Sift together flour, soda, salt, and cinnamon in a mixing bowl Add pecans and stir to coat the pecans
• Step 4
  After apple mixture has set for 30 minutes, gradually add flour mixture to the apples, and mix well using low speed on electric mixer. Leave the apples a little chunky. Continue mixing as you stir in vanilla extract.
• Step 5
  Pour into bundt or tube pan, and cook for 55 minutes. Test with toothpick inserted into thickest part of cake, if it comes out clean remove from oven; if not cook another ten minutes Turn out from pan onto serving dish and cool
• Step 6
  Making icing: Bring sugar and milk to a boil, stirring constantly. When boiling, cease stirring and cook gently until a drop forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water Remove from fire Add butter and vanilla, cool ten minutes Beat with electric mixer until creamy, add nuts and spread over cake NOTE: This is a tricky icing, if it starts to get hard before you spread it, add warm milk by tablespoons until desired consistency for spreading. (it will set up again on cake within a few minutes.
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