Patti Katter

Dear Diary,

I have quite a few frozen apples in my freezer from this past fall and realized I better get-a-cookin! Tonight, I doctored up an old Apple Cake recipe, changed a few things here and there… wah-lah… I came up with Pattis All American Apple Cake recipe.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease and flour pan… set it aside.

Take apples, sugar and cinnamon and set aside.

• 6-7 apples – cut/peeled and cored
• 3 teaspoons cinnamon
• 5 teaspoons sugar

Then… in a separate bowl mix:

• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 teaspoons baking powder

Add the following to the flour mixture:

• 1/4 cup orange juice (I use freshly squeezed, its about one orange)
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup of melted butter

Last but not least, throw in:

• 1 cup broken walnuts

Pour half of batter in cake pan (or tube pan).  The batter is thick! Add about half of the apples to the first layer of batter.  Pour remainder batter on top of first layer of apples, then top cake with the rest of the apples.  Bake at 350 degrees for aprox 40 minutes.