Preheat oven 325*F
Butter and flour a 10” tube pan
1 ½ cups vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
3 cups Macintosh apples, peeled and chunked
1 tablespoon Spiced Rum
In the bowl of your stand mixer using the beater bar, beat oil and sugar until thick – about 3 minutes
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one.
Sift together flour, spices, baking soda and salt.
Add to egg mixture and blend well.
Add nuts, apples and Spiced Rum and blend well.
Pour batter into tube pan and place in preheated oven.
Bake cake 1-1/2 hours – use the toothpick test to make sure it’s cooked
Remove from oven to a cooling rack. After 10 minutes, remove the cake from the tube pan and allow cake to cool completely.
Chunky Apple and Walnut Cake
Glaze:
¼ cup butter, cut in pieces
½ cup light brown sugar, tightly packed
¼ teaspoon salt
1/3 cup milk or cream
1 cup icing/confectioners’ sugar
In a sauce pan over medium heat, place butter, brown sugar, cream and salt.
Bring to a full, rolling boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil hard for 1 minute.
Remove from heat and leave to cool for 7 minutes.
Beat in icing sugar until smooth.
Immediately pour the glaze over the cake.
THE LOVE: Make sure that your cake is completely cooled or the glaze will run off. Spoon the glaze over the cake to ensure that you cover as much of the cake as possible.