Recipe: Maine Apple Cake

This is a recipe for Maine apple cake. If you are lucky enough to live in Maine, then you can make a real Maine apple cake using Maine apples! But if you don't have access to Maine apples, you can use any apples and this cake will be almost as good. This delicious and super moist apple cake is a hit any time of the year. Maine apple cake is the perfect home style dessert to serve after any holiday meal. Maine apple cake is also a wonderful dessert to bring to parties or barbecues since it stays in the pan and is topped with glaze. There is no messy frosting to worry about! And this recipe is very easy to make. You just throw everything together and you have a cake!

Ingredient List for the Maine Apple Cake:
1+1/2 cups oil
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups peeled and chopped Maine apples (or any apples)
1 cup of walnuts

Ingredient List for the Glaze:
1+1/2 brown sugar
1 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup butter

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Combine the first 8 ingredients in the ingredient list for the cake and mix well. After mixing the batter, stir in the apples and the walnuts.

Pour the batter into a greased 9x13 pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes then let the cake cool directly in the pan. While the cake is cooling you can make the glaze.

Make the glaze by combining the 3 glaze ingredients in a saucepan and heating the mixture just until it boils. Pour the hot glaze over the cooled cake and let the glaze cool before serving (you can also serve while the glaze is warm but make sure it's not too hot).

Store any leftover Maine apple cake in the refrigerator. You can also freeze it. If you want to freeze individual servings, an easy trick is to cut the portions in the cake pan but do not take them out. Then freeze the entire pan until frozen. Then pick up the frozen squares and wrap them individually. By freezing the squares in the pan before you remove them and wrap them, they will not fall apart and they are much easier to wrap.

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