Fresh Apple & Spice Cake

                                                                             

This is a very good spice cake with fresh apple to make it moist & tasty! The frosting is a nice touch that adds the right amount of creamy sweetness!

CAKE:

3 Cups Flour

1 Cup Sugar

1 Cup Brown Sugar

1 Tsp Ginger

2 Tsp Cinnamon

1 Tsp Ground Cloves

1/2 Tsp Ground Nutmeg

2 Tsp Baking Soda

1 Cup Vegetable Oil

4 Eggs

1/2 Cup Milk

2 Tsp Vanilla

2 Cups Peeled, Cored,  & Shredded Granny Smith Apples

1 TBS Lemon Juice

Grease & Flour a 10 inch tube pan. Preheat oven to 325. Prepare apples, Place the lemon juice in your food processor & then the quartered apples. Shred by using the pulse button you want fine but not mushy apple pieces! Set aside. Mix all the dry ingredients together. Now add all the wet except the apples. Mix until everything is combined! Then stir in the apples! Spoon into the prepared pan. Bake 1 & 1/2 hours! Once baked let cool 10 minutes then loosen the side & the middle by running a knife down the edges. Turn over & dump out on your plate. Let cool. Frost with the following frosting.

FROSTING:

4 TBS Softened Butter

1/2 Cup Shortening

4 Cups Powdered Sugar

Dash of Salt

2 Tsp Vanilla

Milk

Beat butter & shortening, Add sugar salt & vanilla. Beat in enough milk to get the spreading consistency you desire! Spread on the sides, top & down in the center of your cake! DELICIOUS!