Cinnamon Sugar Apple Cake

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall. 

Oscar Wilde

Cinnamon Sugar Apple Cake

Cook's Notes: Gorgeous fall weather begs for another apple dessert. Fall flavors are captured and you will find this to be more of a dense cake rather than one light and fluffy but very moist. Recipe adapted from pinchofyum
Apple Cake:

• 1 large egg
• 1- 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1/3 cup oil
• 1 cup buttermilk (or 1 cup milk + 1 tablespoon white vinegar)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. each apple pie spice and ground cinnamon
• 2- 1/2 cups flour
• 2 1/2 cups chopped apples (I used 2 granny smiths and 1 Macintosh apple)

Cinnamon Sugar Topping Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon Saigon cinnamon
• 3/4  cup chopped walnuts
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 x 9 glass pan. Whisk one egg and then mix it in with the rest of the ingredients in order given, stirring until just combined.
• Pour batter into a prepared pan.
• Combine the last 4 ingredients to make a topping. Sprinkle mixture evenly over the batter.
• Bake for 35 -40 minutes or until apples are done. Cake best served warm with little ice cream or whipped cream and a drizzle of caramel over the top. 
  

Another way to present the apple cake is to use a fun glass and prepared caramel topping.