Apple Walnut Supreme Cake

My refrigerator is about to explode from all the baking apples I have right now. I forget and keep adding them onto various grocery lists. I keep coming up with a myriad of plans to make delicious fall recipes, both sweet and savory but my motivation and strength are failing me. My brain is a whirling picture show of pork with apples, apple pie, baked apples etc. Steeling my mind to do it, I’ve decided I’m going to do it today. I’m going to make an Apple Walnut Supreme Cake.

Apple Walnut Supreme Cake is a cozy home-style cake. It is extremely moist from the apples and stands on it’s own with no topping or glaze. If I had to assign it a cake category, I would put it in the snack cake group. I found the recipe originally in one of my mother’s Armenian church cookbooks. It is not, however, an Armenian recipe, but must have appealed to the women who used this cookbook. I’ve made this cake since the  1980’s and have given this recipe out many times to people that requested it.

I haven’t made this cake since I have been wheelchair bound and it looks like I can change up the tools and still be able to make it. Instead of using a hand mixer and doing the rest by hand, I think I can use my stand mixer on medium for the eggs and on low for the rest. My motivation remains high. I am going to do this. This cake is too good of a cake for me to go a whole fall without making it. The world needs more Apple Walnut Supreme Cake and I need it too.

*** I don’t know how old this recipe is, but I got it from, Favorite Family Recipes from the Women’s Guild of St James Armenian Apostolic Church in Watertown, Massachusetts, 1983.

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Apple Walnut Supreme Cake

An extremely moist cinnamon apple snacking cake with pieces of apple.

Prep Time30 minutes mins

Cook Time50 minutes mins

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Apple, Cake, Walnut

Servings: 8

Equipment

• Stand Mixer or Handheld Mixer
• Peeler

Ingredients

• 4 cups coarsely chopped, peeled apples
• 1 ¾ cups Sugar
• 2 large Eggs
• 1/2 cup neutral Cooking Oil I like Crisco Vegetable Oil for this.
• 2 teaspoons Vanilla
• 2 cups All Purpose Flour
• 2 teaspoons Baking Soda
• 2 teaspoons ground Cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon table Salt
• 1/2 cup coursely Chopped Walnuts

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Combine apples and sugar and set aside.
  
• In a large bowl, mix the eggs, oil and vanilla. Beat for one minute on medium speed.
  
• Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Alternate adding the dry ingredients and the apple mixture to the egg mixture.
• Stir in the walnuts.
  
• Pour into a greased 13×9 pan.
  
• Bake in the middle of an oven for 45-50 minutes. Test with a toothpick. Do not under bake.
  

Modifications

Peeling the apples and cutting them is probably the most muscle fatiguing part of this recipe for me. Find a comfortable place and take as many breaks as you need to not exhaust yourself.

I couldn’t use a stand mixer because the whips would break and mash the apple pieces. I used the stand mixer on medium to beat the egg mixture and after that I used the lowest speed which was “Stir” to incorporate all the rest of the ingredients. It worked beautifully and didn’t cream ingredients that just needed stirring in.

As often as possible, I use bowls that have a pouring spout as well as a rubber ring on the bottom. They are easier to transfer the ingredients from as well as being more stable on the counter.