Applesauce Coffee Cake

• Apple Cider Applesauce
• 1 pound juicy apples (Macintosh work very well) peeled. cored and cut into quarters
• 1/4 cup apple cider
• 1 tablespoon Sugar (white, turbinado or brown any will work)
• pinch of salt
• The Crumble Topping and Cake
• THE CRUMBLE TOPPING
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar packed
• 1/4 cup old fashioned rolled oats
• 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup toasted pecans chopped (If you have a nut allergy the nuts can be omitted)
• THE CAKE
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon cloves (OPTIONAL, I omitted I do not like cloves)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 tablespoons 1 stick unsalted butter softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar packed
• 4 large eggs at room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups apple cider applesauce
• 2 small juicy apples (Macintosh work very well) peeled and sliced
• 1/2 cup toasted pecans chopped OPTIONAL

1. Clean, peel, core and quarter the apples. Add to a medium saucepan. Add the cider, sugar and salt and boil until apples are soft. Remove from heat and mash (I used a potato masher) keep some small chunks of apples. Set aside to cool.
2. Make your crumble topping. In small bowl combine the butter, sugar, oats,flour, cinnamon, salt and pecans mix with fork or by hand to combine. Set aside.
3. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Coat your tube pan with cooking spray or vegetable oil. (I recommend using a non stick pan)rnSift flour, salt, baking soda and spices. Cream butter and white and brown sugar in your electric mixer until smooth about 3 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time make sure egg is incorporated before you add another one. With mixer on low add the applesauce and then the flour mixture. Mix just until combined. Add the optional chopped pecans and fold in.
4. Pour batter into oiled pan. Place apple slices on top of cake tucking some into the batter,sprinkle on the crumble topping.rnBake for 60-70 minutes check by inserting cake tester (I used a bamboo skewer) near the middle of the cake and it should come out clean. Remove from oven and let cake cool in pan on wire rack.
5. Remove from pan and if you do not serve immediately wrap in plastic wrap and store at room temperature until ready to serve.rnNOTE: if you make in a bundt pan like I do it could take some coaxing to get it out of the pan when cooled.It could be easier to remove from a tube pan because it does not have all the grooves that a bundt pan does.

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Taken from food52.com/recipes/14461-applesauce-coffee-cake (may not work)