While looking for a dessert recipe for our staff luncheon/meeting I found a recipe titled "One Bowl Apple Cake." For starters, the menu mapped out with mixing sugar, cinnamon, egg and oil together, then adding the apples. Then it instructed me to mix the flour and the baking soda prior to adding it to the first mix.......what happened to one bowl? Where was I going to mix this without a second bowl? On the counter top? So I drag out a second bowl, do the mix, then work my arm to death adding the flour mixture to the sugar/oil mixture. Why didn't they mix all the dry ingredients together, add the oil and eggs.....do this with a MIXER and then add the apples? Then I questioned why there was no baking powder, salt or milk or water. Then the cook time was 55 minutes on 350. I thought this must be a yummy and dense cake.
NOT
It looked awful. Nonetheless, I cut a square to taste test. It was almost burned. It was dry. It was tasteless. I was mortified to bring it to work. Not even a shot of whiskey would have redeemed it.
So -- if you click on this recipe -- steer clear. I wasted six yummy Gala apples last night. I have even deleted it from my hard drive after copying it for this post.
One Bowl Apple Cake Ingredients:
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar (adjust sugar to your liking)
2 heaping teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 cup oil
6 medium Gala or Fuji or Honey Crisp apples
2 cups plain flour
2 teaspoons baking soda (Sodium bicarbonate)Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, mix the eggs, sugar, cinnamon and oil. Peel and slice the apples and add to mixture in bowl (coating as you go to keep apples from turning brown.) Mix together the baking soda and flour and add to the ingredients in the bowl. Mix well (best with a fork) until all of the flour is absorbed by the wet ingredients. Pour mixture into a greased one 9x13 or two 9″ round pans. Bake for approximately 55 minutes.
