Diana's Apple Butter Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 3 tablespoons orange juice
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup apple butter (store-bought or homemade)
• 2 1/2-3 cups apples, peeled and chopped
• 1 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 -3 tablespoons apple butter (store-bought or homemade)
• whipped cream or vanilla ice cream

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 grease and flour a 9 or 10-inch bundt pan.
• 3 with an electric mixer beat vegetable oil and sugar together.
• 4 add eggs one at a time.
• 5 sift together dry ingredients and blend into egg mixture.
• 6 by hand, stir in vanilla, orange juice, apple butter, apples and walnuts.
• 7 stir until well combined.
• 8 pour batter into prepared bundt pan.
• 9 bake in preheated oven for 65 to 75 minutes or until cake tests done by inserting a cake tester or wooden skewer into cake and comes out clean. remove from oven and let cool 10-15 minutes on a wire rack.
• 10 then invert cake and remove from pan onto a serving plate.
• 11 glaze:
• 12 prepare glaze by combining apple butter and confectioners' sugar. pour over top of cake.
• 13 serve slices of cake topped with whipped cream, non-dairy whipped topping or serve with vanilla ice cream on the side, if desired.