This apple cake brings together the flavors of apple, cinnamon, orange, and vanilla for a wonderful taste experience and is a perfect treat for Hanukkah. This seemingly simple cake is a truly extraordinary dessert. It layers sweetened apples with a hearty, textured cake.
It’s a dessert that can be served at many Jewish holidays, as it contains oil instead of butter and no dairy. For Rosh Hashanah the serving of apples symbolizes a sweet new year.
You can use prepared orange juice in this recipe, but freshly squeezed is always better. To get the most juice from oranges, let them sit on a counter until they are room temperature. Place your palm over the top of each orange and, as you firmly press down, roll the orange around just a bit. This will release the juice from the pulp and you will get more juice per orange.
Jewish Apple Cake Recipe
Ingredients for Jewish Apple Cake:
Cake:
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 5 – 6 apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced (6 cups)
- 3 cups flour
- 2 ½ cups white sugar
- 3 tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
- 1 cup cooking oil
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 4 eggs
Glaze:
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 4 tablespoons orange juice (or enough to create a glaze that can be drizzled)
Directions for making Jewish Apple Cake:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour the bottom only of a 10-inch tube pan; set aside.
In a large bowl, stir together the 1/3 cup sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. Add the apple slices; toss to coat and set aside.
In another bowl, stir together the flour, the 2 ½ cups sugar, the baking powder and salt until well-blended. Add the cooking oil, orange juice, vanilla, and eggs – stir until smooth.
Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan, layer half of the coated apple slices over the batter, spread the remaining batter over the apples, then layer the remaining the apples slices in the pan.
Bake for 90 – 120 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool for 30 minutes prior to inverting the cake on a serving plate. Let the cake set for two hours.
Just prior to serving, drizzle with the glaze (made by stirring together the ingredients listed above).
(adapted from Homes & Gardens Best-Loved Community Recipes)
Another delicious Hanukkah recipe:
Potato pancake recipe – these latkes are so delicious
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