Layered Apple Coffee Cake    
Posted by: Elaine Wed, 25 Feb 2004, at 2:03 p.m.


Ingredients:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 cups white sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1/2 cup orange juice
4 apples - peeled, cored and sliced
5 tablespoons white sugar
5 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon


Directions:
Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Lightly grease a 10-inch tube pan.

In a large bowl, stir together flour and baking powder. In a separate bowl, beat together 2-cups sugar, vegetable oil, eggs. Stir egg mixture into flour mixture, alternately with orange juice, until smooth. In a small bowl, combine 5-tablespoons white sugar, 5-tablespoons brown sugar and 2-teaspoons cinnamon.

Pour 1/2 of batter into prepared pan. Add 1/2 of the apples then 1/2 of the cinnamon sugar mixture. Repeat laying with remaining ingredients.

Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about 50 to 70 minutes. Let cool for 15 to 20 minutes, invert on a plate and serve.

Recipe makes eight servings.