½ cup butter (1 stick)
1¾ cups sugar
½ cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
3 cups flour
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp nutmeg
1 TBL cinnamon
1 cup buttermilk
2-3 apples (250g)
1 cup walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease two 9″ (or three 8″) cake pans and line the bottoms with parchment paper. Flour the sides of the pans.
In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together
- 3 cups flour
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- 1 TBL cinnamon
- ½ tsp salt
In a stand mixer, mix until smooth
- ½ cup (1 stick) butter, slightly softened
Add
- 1¾ cups sugar
and mix at medium speed for 3-5 minutes or until light & fluffy. Add
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp vanilla
and mix until blended. One at a time, add
- 3 eggs
mixing until the yellow of the yolk disappears. Alternately add the flour mixture and
- 1 cup buttermilk
Begin and end with the dry ingredients (3 additions of dry and 2 of wet). At middle speed, mix until just combined, do not over mix.
Peel then grate on large holes of a box grater
- 2-3 apples (250g)
By hand, mix the apples into the dough along with
- 1 cup walnuts (125g), chopped
Pour into the prepared pans and smooth the tops. Bake at 350°F for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached. Let cool 10 minutes, then turn out of pans.
Frost with a maple syrup version of the Cooked Flour Cake Frosting and top with maple syrup glazed walnut halves, or whatever frosting you want.
Adapted from mycakeschool.com