Apple Spice Cake

Apple Spice Cake

4 large apples
1 tablespoon cinnamon
5 tablespoons sugar
2 3/4 cups white whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 stick butter
1/2 cup apple sauce
1 3/4 cups brown sugar
1/4 cup boiled down apple juice/cider
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour bunt pan. Peel, core and chop apples into chunks (square centimeter). Toss with cinnamon and sugar and set aside.

Stir together flour, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, melt butter and mix with apple sauce, juice, sugar and vanilla. Mix wet ingredients into the dry ones, then add eggs, one at a time. Scrape down the bowl to ensure all ingredients are incorporated. Fold apples in with batter.

Bake for about 1 1/2 hours, or until a tester comes out clean.