Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Honey Apple Cake

I'd like to not think about how many calories this cake is, but oh my, it is so worth it!

1 cup chopped pecans, divided
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup honey
3 large eggs
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups chopped apple
Honey Sauce

Grease and flour a bundt pan. Sprinkle bottom of pan with 1/4 cup pecans.
In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar, oil, and honey until well blended. Add eggs until just blended.
Combine flour and next 4 ingredients. Gradually add it to the sugar mix until blended. Stir in vanilla, rest of pecans and apples. Spoon in over pecans in pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. After cooling remove from pan and pour honey sauce over cake.

Honey Sauce:
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup honey
1/4 milk
Bring all ingredients to a boil in medium saucepan over med-high heat, stirring constantly; about 2 minutes.


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