My daddy

is the baby of nine and because of that I have 52 first cousin.  My husbands dad is the 2nd of six.  He has lots of first cousins.  When we first started dating we had a family reunion every couple of weeks or at least that’s how it felt.  It was at one of these family reunions that I tasted the best fall cake ever.

The Wildes,

my husbands fathers, mothers side of the family, has a Christmas reunion every year on Thanksgiving.  In 1987, I was invited for the first time.  They had ordered fried chicken from town and then all the families invited brought a veggie and a dessert.

After going through the serving line and getting my chicken leg and a dab of all the veggies, I went back for dessert.  I’m not a cake eater.  I am a cookie and pie kinda girl so, I grabbed a couple cookies and was fixing to go back to my table to have a seat, when I thought “why not,” and grabbed a piece of cake.

I am not lying when I say…

I did not leave the dessert table for several hours waiting for the owner of the cake plate to come back an claim her dish.  It was that GOOD.  I was a cake plate stalker.

When Anna Marie Kubenka

came back for her dish, I was there. She had no idea, who I was or where I was from but, she was going to find out. I NEEDED that cake recipe.  Did I tell you I don’t really like cake?  So, for me to need it should explain how delicious it was.  She was so gracious and shared with me where her yummy “Fresh Apple Cake” recipe could be found.

I call it my no fail fall

“Fresh Apple Cake”because it is so easy.  I always have the ingredients on hand and its that cake you make when your apples are not supper crisp but you hate to throw them out, cake.

 

The only mistake

one can make is to over stir it.  When it says mix by hand that means with a spoon or spatula until the ingredients are incorporated.  Over stirring will give you a bread like consistency and that’s not what you want.  Also, I cube my apples into half inch pieces because they make the cake super moist.

The recipe can be found in the Wall Catholic Daughters Cookbook with the yellow binding.