RECIPE COURTESY OF PAULA DEEN
Level: Easy
Total: 3 hr
Prep: 30 min
Inactive: 1 hr
Cook: 1 hr 30 min
Yield: 16 to 20 servings
Ingredients
Cake:
- Butter, for greasing pan
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
- 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 finely chopped apples
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Sauce:
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
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, coconut, and pecans into batter.
3.) Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a tester comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours.
4.) Shortly before the cake is done, make the sauce: Melt the butter in a large saucepan, stir in the sugar, buttermilk, and baking soda, and bring to a good rolling boil, stirring constantly. Boil for 1 minute.
5.) Pour the sauce over the hot cake in the pan as soon as you remove it from the oven.
6.) Let stand 1 hour, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.
This recipe is courtesy of Paula Dean via The Food Network.
