Old Fashioned Apple Chunk Cake with Perfect Butter Sauce
Moist, delicious fall dessert. Steaming spicy cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream topped with smooth butter sauce equals autumn in a bowl.
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup canola oil
- 4 cups apples, peeled and diced
- ½ cup nuts, chopped
Butter Sauce
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup cream
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
Cake
- Whisk all the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Set aside.
- Peel and dice apples, then add the oil and eggs. Mix well. Add to the dry ingredients and stir until incorporated. Pour into 9" x 13" pan. Top with nuts if desire.
- Bake at 350° F for 35 to 40 minutes.
Butter Sauce
- Mix ingredients and boil 1½ minutes. Serve over cake.
Notes
Make sure all the sugar crystals are dissolved in the cream before heating the syrup. Scrape the sides often and stir constantly while bringing to a boil. It only takes one stray sugar crystal to ruin a good thing.