German Apple Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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

Preparation

Grease and flour a 10-inch tube or Bundt pan.
Preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
Peel apples, core and thinly slice.
In bowl, toss apple slices with 5 tablespoons sugar and 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; set aside.
In large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, salt, eggs, oil, vanilla, orange juice, baking soda and baking powder.
With electric mixer, blend together on low speed for 1 minute.
Clean down side of bowl with rubber scraper.
Increase speed to medium and blend for 3 minutes.
You will have a very thick dough.
Fill prepared pan with alternating layer of batter and apples, making a total of 3 batter layers and 2 apple layers.
Start and finish with batter.
Bake for 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours or until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool on rack 10 minutes, then invert cake.
Remove pan.
Allow cake to cool completely on rack.