Fresh Apple Cake and a Brown Paper Bag!

Bunko was great at my friend’s home last Friday, November 18, 2011.  For dessert my friend offered us an Apple cake baked in a Bundt pan along with a brown paper bag.  The apple cake is baked in a Bundt pan and when the cake is done, straight from the oven you place the Bundt pan and hot cake into a brown paper bag, folding over the sides until the next morning.  Remove from the pan and enjoy! 

Okay I went through my recipes which date back forever, and when researching the recipe anything involving a brown paper bag is not environmentally friendly at this point in our lives.  So my oldie but goodie recipe books found a recipe which could be much like my friends.  I changed the recipe making it my own by using half oil and half butter.  Forget the half oil and 1 stick of butter, use 2 sticks of butter.  The apple cake will taste like an apple streudel! Delicious! Enjoy! Have Fun!
Butter makes everything better!

Place in a bowl and following these instructions;

Mix by hand
2 cups of granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
(Please make sure to always use fresh spices, do not use spices which were used last year and placed in your pantry until you use again a year later.  Always freeze your spices once the winter months are over and use again the next fall)
½ teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon cloves
½ teaspoon ginger
2 sticks of butter room temperature
2 cups flour
3 eggs
2 teaspoons of vanilla
1 cup of sliced toasted pecans
3 granny smith apples, peeled cored and sliced
And 1 large grocery brown bag. 
Okay I was at HEB Sunday, and when checking out I could find a brown paper bag.  Spec's is a great resource for acquiring large brown paper bags. 

Mix all ingredients by hand and pour into a greased and lightly floured Bundt pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour, no longer.  While the cake is still hot from the oven, place the whole cake with the Bundt pan and place into brown paper bag, fold under the top of the bag and let cool over night.  The cake will continue baking, so please just bake for an hour.

Now when I looked at the Bundt this morning, (bringing the cake to celebrate someone in my office their birthday), I thought, this cake is not going to come clean from the Bundt pan.  I was wrong, once I turned over the cake the cake come out effortlessly onto my serving dish.  Enjoy and remember “Let’s Have Some Fun”!