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Maya’s Apple Cake

Submitted by Jodi (Rubtchinsky) Smith ’90

INGREDIENTS DIRECTIONS

Prep Time: 20 mins 1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
Cook Time: 35 mins 2. Lightly grease and flour a 9 x 13 cake pan (or 2
Serves: 8 rounds).
2 eggs 3. Beat eggs, butter, and oil together first, then add
½ cup butter (softened or melted) all other ingredients, except the apples, and mix
½ cup vegetable oil well.
1 cup white sugar 4. Add the diced apples and stir to incorporate.
1 cup brown sugar 5. Pour into pan and bake for 30 - 40 minutes.
2 cups all purpose flour 6. Cool in pan for 10 minutes before serving.
2 t cinnamon
1 t nutmeg or all spice
1 t baking soda
1 t vanilla extract
4 cups diced apples (with or without peel)

“A few years ago, after a very bountiful apple
picking expedition, I was chatting with my sister.
She, along with her husband and four children,
had recently moved to the other side of the planet
and I was missing her terribly. While she listed
off the uses of extra apples (apple sauce, apple
pies, baked apples, apple butter…), my 12 year
old niece wandered by the conversation and
added to her mother’s list shouting out, ‘apple
cake.’ My sister put my niece, Maya, on the
phone so that she could share the recipe with
me. That fall, making Maya’s super easy apple
cake, made me feel closer to my niece. Every fall
since then, when we return from apple picking, I
make Maya’s apple cake and think of her.”

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