Apple Pound Cake – and Being the Person You Need :)
You ever have one of those days where you just feel a little bit defeated, a little bit battle weary, and you kinda just want to hide in a hole but life won’t let you? We all have those from time to time, they’re par for the course of us being humans. I’m grateful for those days, though, because going through them helps me to be able to recognize when someone else is there – and that is when I can be the most helpful.
You know the great thing about that? It takes so little to perk someone right up. A sincere smile with eye contact, someone taking the time to give you a hug and say “Hey, hang in there, this too shall pass.”
The tiniest gesture from a good hearted person can shine through like a solar flare when you’re feeling a little darkness in your heart.
In the past years I’ve come to realize that sometimes God shows us our own needs to help us realize that they are other people’s needs as well. So if you’ve ever needed someone to comfort you, to tell you that you’re doing great, to give you a hug and tell you they’re proud of you…that is your cue to do that for someone else.
Be the person you need for someone else today.
P.S. Christy G from DotMom, you are awesome (call me soon!) and Beth, I’m thinking of you today!
And now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, on to apples 
This is an old fashioned cake that really has the texture and taste of a pound cake with apple-y goodness tossed in. Although the traditional ingredients for pound cake aren’t there – there is far less sugar and no butter, you’ll still get the feel and taste of pound cake with the dense moistness.
The cake itself is clean and simple in flavor, just slightly sweet and not enough to fight with the apples for the main attraction. This is a great treat to have with coffee or as an afternoon snack. Oh who am I kidding? It has fruit so it can TOTALLY count as a breakfast, too!
You’ll need: Sugar, vegetable oil, orange juice, baking powder, vanilla, eggs, all purpose flour, cinnamon, and about five apples.
I’m using a mix of Gala and Granny Smith but whatever you have will work just fine.
Place sugar, flour, eggs, baking powder, oil, vanilla, and orange juice in a large mixing bowl.
Blend with an electric mixer until smooth and well blended.
In a small bowl or cup, combine sugar (see exact amounts at bottom of this recipe) and cinnamon.
Stir them together until they’re mixed up good.
Grease the living daylights out of your bundt pan.
Last week my friend Jyl got her first ever bundt pan and called to tell me about it. I was kind of suprised she hadn’t had one before because I think they’re just the bees knees. She asked if I greased mine with shortening and flour or if I just used cooking spray. I replied “I never use cooking spray in my bundt pan, I always use crisco and flour to make sure it comes out of the pan easily.” I really truly thought I was telling the truth because in my head, that is what I do. Then I started doing this tutorial and reached for the baking spray and sprayed this pan until it cried uncle – and I felt bad because I realized that I hadn’t been truthful with Jyl, although I didn’t mean to.
So Jyl, I’m sorry. I was telling you the best way to do it – I just prefer the lazy way
Oh Wait, do y’all watch Duck Dynasty? I know a lot of you do. Mama and I had lunch with Kori Robertson and her Mama this past weekend so I thought I’d share the photo in case you missed it on the Southern Plate Facebook Page. They are what Southerner’s refer to as “plain old people” which is one of the highest compliments you can pay to someone who is “famous” and “known”. It means that they are good hearted and hold others in higher regard than themselves, and that they don’t put on airs. They are both as friendly, gracious, and kind as the day is long. I can’t say enough good things about them.
My brother and sister were having cow fits wanting us to get something autographed for each of them so I hooked them up, how do you like this? ~giggles~
Anyone with siblings will get a giggle out of this one. I haven’t decided which one I’m going to give it to yet…
Back to the cake
Pour in half of your cake batter and top with half of your chopped apples.
Generously sprinkle those with half of the cinnamon sugar mixture.
Then top with the rest of your cake batter.
Now add the rest of your apples to the top and sprinkle them with the remainder of the cinnamon sugar mixture.
Bake at 350 for about an hour to an hour and ten minutes.
This is what it looks like after about fifteen minutes.
It was pretty cool looking so I took a photo in case any of y’all are as easily amused as I am
While that is baking let me tell you what Mama and I were up to this past weekend!
We went to the Lifeway DotMom conference in Birmingham, Alabama and I wish all mothers could go to one of these! It was SO encouraging and just gave mothers a weekend of being built up, enriched, and encouraged.
Whoops! Is that the oven timer?
Our cake is done!
Allow to cool in pan for ten minutes before turning out to cool completely.
Before serving, dust with confectioner’s sugar.
Enjoy this dense, moist, and lightly sweet cake
Please note: This is not a really sweet cake, it is more filling like a coffee or pound cake. If you’re looking for a sweeter apple cake, I suggest trying Apple Dapple Cake. Actually, the best thing you could do is make both! heehee!
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Ingredients
- 3 cups all purpose (plain) flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 4 eggs
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cinnamon
- 5 medium apples, peeled and chopped
Instructions
- Generously grease a bundt pan and preheat oven to 350.
- Combine all cake ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix with electric mixer until well blended and smooth.
- Pour half of batter into bundt pan. Top with half of chopped apples.
- Stir together 1/2 cup sugar and 3 tablespoons cinnamon. Sprinkle 1/2 of this over the apples.
- Pour remaining batter over apples and top this with remaining apples and remaining cinnamon sugar.
- Bake at 350 for 1 hour to 1 hour, 10 minutes. Allow to cool in pan for ten minutes before turning out to cool completely.
- Dust generously with confectioner's sugar before serving.
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on Sep 24 2012. Filed under Cake.
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wow that looks great!
Man that Pound cake looks great! Thank ya kindly Christy! Gotta make this for home teams at church.
just wondering if you have ever made it with applesauce instead of some (or all) of the oil???
I think i will make this today if baby girl will let me!
the only orange juice I have has pineapple in it, what do ya’ll think, will it throw off the flavor too much?!
Nope. I think it’d be great!
you always make me smile, christy!
Your Apple Dapple cake was wonderful! I’ve never made a cake that was eaten so fast. Took some to a friend and after eating a piece for evening and then breakfast asked for more. There is one sliver left. Just like I remember when I was a child and mother would make it. I remember many saying they had a good apple cake recipe. I always answered but this is an Apple Dapple cake!
My cake has been in the oven for 9 minutes now!! Can’t wait to sink my teeth into it…
The apple pound cake looks yummy! I am going to make it for my family and friends. Thanks for sharing!
Its in the oven and smells wonderful! Thanks Christy!
Christy, I have one word for this. YUMMY!!!
can this be frozen??
I sat right behind Willie, Corey and their family at church a few weeks ago. I also met Corey’s mom. I was visiting the church and they were truly gracious. How fun that you got to meet and visit with them!
One time I would like to visit this page and say “nah i am not going to try that recipe.” ; ) I am an addict and this will be had. I need to get to Scott’s and get apples.
I am so jealous Christy Jordan!!!! I LOVE Duck Dynasty. My husband thinks that it is hilarious that I am so in love with this show. I am so glad to know that the Robertsons are as advertised. And this cake looks great by the way. I can’t wait to try it.
would love to be able to make these with my overflow of apples and throw it in the freezer, have you ever tried freezing it anyone? Did it change the texture of the apples??
I made this cake right after dinner. Easy and straight-forward. It’s past midnight now, where I am… The kids and the mister are asleep. I couldn’t wait to have it for breakfast. So I did what every sane mum would do…I snuck into the kitchen and cut myself a slice. You know, for testing purposes. After the first bite, my eyes nearly rolled all the way back and my knees nearly gave way under me. This cake is THAT good!!! Thank you for sharing this recipe
This sounds so good I’m taking it to the potluck at church tomorrow. Love the autograph too. My husband and his buddies used to hang around with David Hasselhoff. Met up with him one afternoon and asked him to autograph a photo for an adoring fan girlfriend of mine – so he signed, “Thanks for last night, Chickie”. (David’s naughty streak came out – tee hee). Gotta’ say she loved it!
I made this cake and it is so yummy but some of the first layer of apples and cinnamon sugar sank to the bottom and caramelized making it hard to get out of the pan. It left big chunks in the bottom. Still tasted great tho. Just not as pretty as I had hoped it would be.
Yummo! Looks good. I really love apple cake actually. It just bakes so well. I don’t have a bundt pan either! So Jyl was not alone with that one.
My fridge is full of ripe pears, could I sub out the apples for the pears do you think???
At first i was going to make this cake, but soon realized i didn’t have orange juice. I had everything for the apple dapple cake. WOW!!! It was so-o-o good.mmmm.
I am so glad to hear that you liked it Evon!! It is one of my favorites!!
I just finished making my second cake. The first one I made a little over a week ago and it was a big hit at my office. Now I made one for the family! I can’t wait to cut into it tomorrow!!! Thank you for an awesome, easy recipe!
I am so glad to hear it was such a hit, now I hope you get to sit back and savor yours!!
[...] apple cinnamon pound cake (Recipe based on one I found at Southern Plate, but I modified it quite a [...]
I used your recipe as base for an apple cake, thanks! It turned out delicious, even though I tweaked it quite a bit
Here’s my post on it:
http://petitedecadence.com/2012/10/29/peace-and-quiet-apple-cinnamon-pound-cake/
[...] Apple Pound Cake from Christy Jordan’s Southern Plate–If you want to find a new recipe, it’s hard to go wrong with something from Christy Jordan. I made this apple pound cake for a potluck dinner, and it was wonderful. I followed the cake recipe exactly as written, but I did make a brown sugar glaze to put on it instead of powdered sugar (1 cup brown sugar, 4 tablespoons margarine, 2 tablespoons milk, stir together over medium heat and boil for about 3 minutes). If you like apple desserts, this cake is definitely worth your time! [...]