CINNAMON APPLE CAKE

Christmas season means finding fruit cake for sale in all the stores. Lots of fruit cake. Actually, any more than zero is too much for me. I don’t like fruit cake. It doesn’t look enticing to me at all. Today is Foodie Extravaganza day and this month’s theme is, you guessed it, the fruit cake.

I thought about bowing out but then I decided that instead of making a traditional fruit cake, I would make a cake with fruit that I would eat. I came up with something so good that it was gone really quickly.

To be fair, I gave a lot of it away, but what I kept, we ate fast. I hope you love this Cinnamon Apple Cake for my FoodieExtravaganza challenge this month. Scroll all the way to the bottom of this post to find 8 other fruit cake recipes.

My friends have this apple orchard at their place. Actually, they grow so many things, apples, peaches, pears, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, green beans, peas, I could go on and on. They brought me apples a couple times this fall. I actually canned apples using their apples. They are so good. The last batch they brought me went into this cake. Actually, only a few of that last batch because they brought me a big bag.

When I was making it, I decided that I would use these cute little loaf pans and give them to the ladies I visit teach. I’m hopeful that they loved the cake. I also used 2 small cake pans, 6 inches, for part of the batter. You could use a 9×13 inch pan though or a bundt pan would be lovely as well.

Whatever you decided to do, I hope you will enjoy the cake. It’s re