In reorganizing one of my pantries I discovered 2 cans of apple pie filling that I had bought a long time ago for a recipe that I instantly lost. So today I did an Internet search for an apple cake using a cake mix and a can of apple pie filling. Well, you would have thought I was searching for Hillary's lost emails. You now have to 'sign up' on many of the sites and have an email address (so they can later drive you mad), a password (so no one can steal their on line recipes and actually use them.) Of all things a password!!! IDEA: If you don't want your recipes to be used or your homemade (string of )pictures to be used DON'T PUT THEM ON THE INTERNET. What is the big secret? Well, after encountering this multiple times I dug in and was determined to find what I was searching for (before I forgot what I was searching for.) If one is not besieged with barriers of entry, then the ads are so obnoxious that I was screaming before I found this one lovely site Allrecipes which I have used many times with pleasure and will go directly to them from now on. Allrecipes.com
This simple cake is in my oven as I write:
Apple cake III (A really old recipe.)
1 box of yellow cake mix (18.25 ounces) Oh that's the other thing: Why have the cake mixes lost ounces? Mine was a bit over 15 ounces and yet this recipe calls for over 18 ounces?) It's another sneaky way of giving you less for the old price. They believe we didn't notice. It is another way 'they' are giving us less product for the same or more money!
3 eggs
1 can (21 ounces) can apple pie filling
I also added on my own 2 tablespoons of sour cream
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tabls. all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup chopped nuts
Preheat oven to 350 and grease and flour a 9x13 inch baking pan.
In a large bowl mix together the cake mix, eggs and apple pie filling (and in my case the sour cream)
Pour into prepared pan. Combine the brown sugar, flour, butter, cinnamon and walnuts. Sprinkle over the top of the batter.
Bake 35-40 minutes until done according to your oven.
One other simple thing I did was spread some of the batter on the bottom of the baking pan, sprinkle some of the topping all over that layer and then complete the batter pour over that bit of topping. At the end, sprinkle the rest of the topping over the cake and bake. I'll let you know how it turned out and IF you can use this recipe without filing papers along with a picture of your first born.
(Out of the oven and looks and smells great.)
It is delicious.
