Apple Walnut Cake With Apple Cider Glaze

Ingredients

350 ml vegetable oil
400 gr granulated sugar
3 eggs
250 gr unbleached all-purpose
3 gr cinnamon
1 gr mace
5 gr baking soda
1 gr salt
130 gr wheat flour
475 gr shelled walnuts
120 gr coarse chunks of
90 gr applejack
55 gr sweet butter
28 gr brown sugar
75 gr granulated sugar
60 gr sweet cider
30 ml orange juice
30 ml cream

Instructions

Preheat oven to 160ÂșC . In a large bowl, beat vegetable oil and sugar until thick and opaque. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift together flour, cloves, cinnamon, mace, baking soda and salt, then stir in whole-wheat flour. Add to oil and egg mixture and mix until well blended. Add walnuts, apple chunks and applejack all at once and stir batter until pieces are evenly distributed. Pour batter into a greased 25 cm round cake pan. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. APPLE CIDER GLAZE: Melt butter in a small saucepan and stir in both sugars. Add remaining ingredients, stir, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat slightly and cook for 4 minutes. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Pour while still warm over warm cake. Makes 1.5 cups glaze. From the San Francisco Chronicle, 0. 78.125.