Pecan Apple Cake with Caramel Glaze

Instructions 👩🏻‍🍳

• Step 1
  Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Grease and flour a 10-12 cup bundt pan with shortening or butter.
• Step 2
  Combine the flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Add the chopped pecans to the flour mixture and stir well to coat the pecans.
• Step 3
  In a large bowl, whisk the eggs until light and foamy. Add the vegetable oil and whisk just until combined. Add the brown sugar and vanilla and whisk just until combined.
• Step 4
  Shred or finely chop the apples. No need to peel them! You’ll need 2 ½ cups of shredded apple. I use a stand cheese grater or food processor shredding blade.
• Step 5
  Stir the shredded apple into the brown sugar mixture.
• Step 6
  Stir the flour mixture into the brown sugar mixture until all ingredients are combined.
• Step 7
  Pour the batter into the greased bundt pan. Bake on the center rack for 45 to 50 minutes or just until a toothpick comes out “almost” clean when inserted in the center of the cake. You want just a few crumbs on it but no wet batter.
• Step 8
  Let cool in pan 10 minutes. Set a timer!
• Step 9
  As the cake is cooling 10 minutes, make the Caramel Glaze. It thickens as it cools.
• Step 10
  When the cake has cooled 10 minutes, place a serving plate over the top of the cake pan and carefully invert the cake onto the plate. Carefully remove the cake pan.
• Step 11
  Drizzle with the Caramel Glaze or dust with powdered sugar.
• Step 12
  If garnishing with optional pecan halves, place them on the glaze before it firms up.
• Step 13
  Serve warm or at room temperature!