Fall is apple season here in the Carolina's and this is one of our favorite things. Bee sure to surprise your guest with this delicious treat.
Honey-Apple Cake
Makes 1 10-inch cake
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup pecans, chopped and divided
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup canola oil
1/4 cup of our Upcountry wildflower honey
3 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups Golden Delicious apples, chopped
Honey sauce (recipe follows)
1. Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan and sprinkle the bottom of the pan with 1/4 cup pecans. Set aside.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer or a medium mixing bowl, beat the sugar, oil, and honey at medium speed until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended.
3. In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. Gradually add to sugar mixture, beating at low speed just until blended. Stir in vanilla, remaining 3/4 cup pecans, and apple. Spoon over pecans in Bundt pan. Bake for 55-60 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove from pan and place on a rack over wax paper. Pour 1/2 cup honey sauce over warm cake. Allow to cool. To serve, heat the remaining honey sauce and, if desired, serve with the cake and ice cream.
Honey Sauce:
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup of our Upcountry wildflower honey
1/4 cup milk
1. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring all the ingredients to a boil, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes
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