Happy Birthday, Funky!

Thank you all! I had a nice day! ❤️😎

I won't be celebrating until Friday but then I am a Birthday WEEK kind of gal!

I hope your day was filled with love and joy!

I've made that cake, but it's been years ago. As I recall it is a very moist cake and delicious. I pulled my older cookbooks and found a number of recipes for Raw Apple Cake, with a few variations. My recipe:

Raw Apple Cake

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup shortening

2 eggs, beaten

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. allspice

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

2 cups A.P. flour

2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

4 cups raw, peeled, tart apples- diced or chopped small

1/2 cup chopped nuts

Cream sugar and shortening, then add beaten eggs. Sift all dry ingredients together, then add to wet mixture. Add apples last, then pour into a greased 9 x 13 pan and bake @350 degrees for 40-45 minutes.

Some of these recipes used the same amount of vegetable oil instead of shortening. Some also frost this cake, but I don't think it's necessary. Your recipe is pretty similar, but half size. Hope this helps.

ETA:I just noticed that your recipe uses the same amount of butter for the

8" x 8" size as mine (shortening) does for the 9" x 13".

This is nothing like what I know as a pound cake.

Sorry, FOS! I didn't catch that. That does sound like a pound cake.

OP states it's already very moist, so wouldn't adding an egg make it goopy?

How finely are the apples chopped? What about grating them instead?

FWIW, I make a cottage pudding type 'cake' that directs beating the egg and sugar until light and fluffy, then adding the flour/dry ingredients and beating well before adding the chopped fruits. I feel like that develops some gluten and binds things better.

Perhaps try ordering the steps differently to see if that helps?

Hmm - just came across this in my feed - looks similar, but steps are different than described above...

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/french-apple-cake

Ingredients

• Cooking spray
• 1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. kosher salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 c. (1 stick) butter, melted and cooled
• 3/4 c. plus 1 tbsp. granulated sugar, divided
• 3 tbsp. dark rum
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 3 medium sweet-tart apples (such as Granny Smith or Honeycrisp), peeled, cored, and chopped

Directions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350° with a rack in the middle position; lightly coat an 8” round cake pan with cooking spray. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.

Step 2

In a large bowl, whisk eggs until foamy. Add melted butter, 3/4 cup sugar, rum, and vanilla and whisk to combine. Add dry ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula until evenly incorporated. Fold in apples. Transfer batter to prepared pan. Sprinkle top with remaining 1 tablespoon sugar.

Step 3

Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Let cool 15 minutes before inverting onto a cooling rack to cool completely.

Yields: 8 Servings Prep Time: 15 mins. Total Time: 1 hr. 30 mins. Cal/Serv: 336

lizbeth-gardener, That looks like a recipe I would like to make - thanks for sharing!

I've been keeping dehydrated cream on hand for baking, and so I have all of the ingredients for that - except for the strawberries and whipping cream, which I can easily buy when I decide to make it.

Note: BH&G has updated their recipe, but it does not look like an improvement.

Normally, when I find strawberries, I make strawberry ice cream, or I make German Apple Pancakes, which I serve with strawberries and crème fraîche, using Hans Röckenwagner's recipe for Apfelpfannkuchen.

You did hit the jackpot, 1929SpanishGW. What a find! Now we need a picture of you modeling your new outfit.

Sueb20, I love your desk/end table and it looks like a great fit for your room. Did it require refinishing?

Apologies for the swerve, but mtn's post reminded of a really interesting YouTube video I watched recently, about carpet makers in India, supplying handmade rugs to stores like Pottery Barn, etc. Perhaps some here might find it as interesting as I did...

Big difference between hand knotted and tufted. And a ton of variables beyond that.

Yes, of course, which is why I mentioned quality differences. But, as you see, the choice was between hand loomed, and tufted. The $1250 one was not knotted either.

Have to look at the video. When we travelled to India, we visited a place where they dyed cloth in big clay vats. The merchant we met with kept showing us things and then rattling off high end brand names, Things like "Osborne & Little," which is kind of insider-y. I don't doubt it though...

Love the jacket, but glad the jeans are going back. I can't imagine anyone being shaped like those jeans, They do look like jodpurs!

Those Toteme pants are gorgeous. For some reason, I just thought the groin to knee area in the BB pants looked excessively fabric swathed, lol.

The proportions are definitely wrong, but what I've seen from H & M hasn't been the best quality. Bumble, I had to look up barrel jeans. Not seeing anything like that around here yet. Have to say I hope we don't, but I won't be wearing them, nor do I plan to wear pleated pants again LOL. I do think the blazers are too long; how tall are you KSWL?