Apple Cake with Caramel Sauce

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Apple Cake The perfect fall dessert

Ingredients

Cake:

• Butter, for greasing pan

• 2 cups sugar

• 3 eggs

• 1 1/2 cups butter

• 1/4 cup orange juice

• 3 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

• 3 cups peeled and sliced apples

Sauce:

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

• 1 cup brown sugar

• ½ cup cream

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Generously grease a tube pan.

2. For the cake: in a large bowl, combine the sugar, eggs, oil, orange juice, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and vanilla extract; and mix well. Fold apples into batter.

3. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a tester comes out clean, about 1 hour.

4. Shortly before the cake is done, make the sauce: Melt the butter in a large saucepan, stir in the sugar and bring to a good rolling boil, stirring constantly. Boil for 1 minute. Add cream and return to boil.

5. Let the cake cool about an hour before taking it out of the pan.

6. Pour the sauce over the cake and serve.