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| Apples take center stage in the ingredients for all three dessert recipes. |
Certain foods have special meaning to us because we associate them with special events or people in our lives. Apples and these three apple dessert recipes do just that! They bring lots of wonderful memories flooding back – filled with special family, great friends and, of course, apples.
Fresh Apple Cake
While this dessert wasn’t one of my favorites, it sure had a special place in Grandpa’s heart. This fresh apple cake was a staple food in my grandparent’s house. Though the neatly typed recipe lists the title as “Fresh Apple Cake,” they always called it “Raisin Cake,” obviously choosing to include the optional ingredient, raisins. Apparently Grandma thought it needed more apples too. Where the recipe once read 1 1/2 cups of apples, she revised it to read 3 cups. Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 cup Crisco
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3 cups self-rising flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup chopped nuts
1 cup raisins (optional)
3 cups thinly sliced fresh apples Cream sugar and Crisco, add eggs and blend well. Add vanilla, and sift in dry ingredients. Blend well. Fold in nuts, raisins and apples. Bake in greased and floured tube pan for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes at 350 degrees F. Glaze:
1 cup brown sugar
1 stick margarine
4 tbsp. evaporated milk Bring to a boil for 3 minutes. Pour over hot cake.
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