German Apple Cake

• 5 baking or cooking apples
• 5 Tbsp. sugar
• 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 3 c. unsifted all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 c. sugar
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 4 eggs
• 1 c. vegetable oil
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1/3 c. orange juice
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 1/2 c. confectioners sugar
• 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, softened
• 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 to 2 Tbsp. water

1. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube or Bundt pan.
2. Preheat oven to 350u0b0.
3. Peel apples, core and thinly slice.
4. In bowl, toss apple slices with 5 tablespoons sugar and 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; set aside.
5. In large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, salt, eggs, oil, vanilla, orange juice, baking soda and baking powder.
6. With electric mixer, blend together on low speed for 1 minute.
7. Clean down side of bowl with rubber scraper.
8. Increase speed to medium and blend for 3 minutes.
9. You will have a very thick dough.
10. Fill prepared pan with alternating layer of batter and apples, making a total of 3 batter layers and 2 apple layers.
11. Start and finish with batter.
12. Bake for 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours or until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
13. Cool on rack 10 minutes, then invert cake.
14. Remove pan.
15. Allow cake to cool completely on rack.

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Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=365443 (may not work)