Apple Spice Cake the Recipe

• Finally, the recipe I used for that delicious apple spice bundt cake that tasted just like pie.
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• 4 apples (I used gala)
• 5 tablespoons plus 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
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• 4 large eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

dash nutmeg, cloves

Preheat oven to 350°F. Cut apples into small thin pieces. Mix apple pieces, 5 tablespoons sugar and ground cinnamon in medium bowl. Combine 2 1/2 cups sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, orange juice and vanilla extract in large bowl; whisk to blend. Stir flour, baking powder, cinnamon, other spices and salt into egg mixture. Fill the bottom of the ban with 1/3 of the batter and top with half of the cinnamon apple mixture, cover with more batter, add the remaining apple mixture and top with the rest of the batter.

Bake cake until top is brown and tester inserted near center comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 1 hour 30 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack 15 minutes. Run knife around sides of pan to loosen. Turn cake out onto rack. Cool at least 45 minutes.

You can just cover the cake with powdered sugar or I made a simple powdered sugar glaze to drizzle over the one I made. Of course, if you can stand waiting, this cake is so much better the next day.