Since I can prepare this lovely, moist cake during apple season, I always look forward to it. The dried cranberries make it ideal for autumnal festivities. The last flourish is the salted caramel glaze!
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 2 hrs |
| Total Time: | 3 hrs 25 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 tube cake |
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 ½ cups vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 ½ cups diced apples
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- ¾ cup dried cranberries
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- ½ cup butter
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a tube pan.
- Place flour, white sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla extract, baking soda, and salt in a mixing bowl. Beat using an electric mixer until smooth. Stir in apple, pecans, and cranberries until well blended. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and set aside.
- Combine brown sugar, butter, and milk in a small saucepan. Bring mixture to a rolling boil over high heat; continue to boil, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla extract and salt.
- Pour glaze over the hot cake. Let cake sit in the pan to cool and for glaze to set, about 2 hours.
- Remove cake from the pan. Place onto a plate, top-up; the glaze may puddle around the bottom edge of the cake. Serve when completely cool.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 744 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 87 g |
| Cholesterol | 67 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Saturated Fat | 10 g |
| Sodium | 476 mg |
| Sugars | 60 g |
| Fat | 43 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Absolutely delicious! I was worried that it would not turn out since the batter was extremely thick and sticky. Glad I wrong. I chose to poke holes in the cake and pour the glaze over the cake. This resulted in a very moist cake. I could not however taste the salt in the caramel. Next time I will up the salt to 1 tsp. Thanks for sharing this great recipe!