Apple Cake with Rum Sauce

Food is a fickle thing.

  It is a common habit of mine to bake or cook something that I have made before and then think to myself... "this tastes like dog food, I must have been really hungry last time I ate this stuff".  Don't get me wrong... most everything I eat can be categorized under the "this will do," portion of my recipe box.  But when I'm feeling fancy and want to impress, I bring out the big guns.  This Apple Cake With Rum Sauce is definitely categorized under the

  "LICK YOUR PLATE CLEAN" 

portion of my recipe box.

A warm spice cake with apple bits and pecans, topped with whipped cream and HOT rum sauce.

Serve the cake hot out of the oven so the cool whipped cream melts a little as you devour this devilish dish.

The "LICK YOU PLATE CLEAN" type recipes are not easy to come by in my book, but here are a few tried and true recipes we will swear by.

Magnolia's Bakery Whoopie Pies

Cinnamon Cream Coffee Cake

Fresh Apple Cake

Strawberry Puff &

Melt In Your Mouth Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 c butter, softened

2 c sugar

2 eggs

4 Tbs. hot water

2 tsp. vanilla

2 c flour

2 tsp of each: cinnamon, nutmeg, and baking soda

1 tsp. salt

5 c GREEN apples, peeled, cored and CHOPPED into small cubes

1 c pecans, chopped

RUM SAUCE:

1.5 c packed brown sugar

1/2 c heavy cream

1 c butter

2 tsp. rum extract

Directions:

In an extra large bowl, cream butter and sugar until smooth (1-2 min). Beat in eggs, then hot water and vanilla. In a separate bowl sift together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda and salt.  FOLD flour mixture into butter/cream mixture.  FOLD in apples and pecans. Bake in 9X13 inch pan at 350 degrees for 60-65 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

RUM SAUCE:

In medium saucepan over medium heat, dissolve brown sugar in melted butter.  When mixture comes to a boil, continue on low boil for 1 minute.  Add the heavy cream and return to a boil until clarified (a few seconds).  Remove from heat then stir in extract.

* Assemble a slice of cake with a heaping spoonful of homemade whipped cream (heavy cream, whipped with an electric beater; add powdered sugar and vanilla to taste).  Drizzle the rum sauce on top and just go at it. 

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