Apple Cake

From Smitten Kitchen, this is an easy and cinnamon-y apple cake.

Ingredients

6 apples, cored and chopped into smallish pieces

1 T cinnamon

5 T sugar

2.75 c flour

1 T baking powder

1 t salt

1 c vegetable oil (or melted butter)

2 c sugar

1/4 c orange juice

2.5 t vanilla

4 eggs

1 c chopped walnuts (optional)

Instructions

1) Preheat the oven to 180.  Toss apples with cinnamon and 5 T sugar and set aside.

2) Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl.

3) Combine oil, orange juice, sugar, and vanilla.

4) Mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients, then add the eggs one at a time.

5) Grease a pan, pour 1/2 the batter, then cover with 1/2 the apples, then pour the other 1/2 of the batter and layer the top of the cake with apples.

6) Bake ~1.5 hours, until a tester comes out clean.