On 2/18/2019 2:54 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:46:04 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 2/18/2019 9:26 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> I made a delicious apple cake yesterday.
>>>
>>> So simple too -
>>> Just used a yellow box-cake mix and followed instructions on the
>>> box. To that, I cored and peeled a few fresh honey crisp apples
>>> then sliced thinly and mixed it into the cake batter. Delicious
>>> and no icing necessary. :-D
>>>
>>> I rarely make worthless dessert food but sometimes the taste buds
>>> demand some extra attention.
>>>
>> Be happy Bruce hasn't come along and posted the ingredients list of the
>> store bought cake mix.
>
> He didn't say the brand name
>

Two brands make up most of the US market. Both are sort of nasty.

Duncan Hines
Ingredients
Sugar, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron,
Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Vegetable Oil Shortening
(Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Propylene Glycol Mono-and Diesters
of Fats, Mono and Diglycerides), Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate,
Dicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate).
Contains 2% or less of: Wheat Starch, Salt, Dextrose, Polyglycerol
Esters of Fatty Acids, Cellulose Gum, Artificial Flavors, Xanthan Gum,
Maltodextrin, Modified Cornstarch, Colored With (Yellow 5 Lake, Red 40
Lake). Contains: Wheat.

Betty Crocker
Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate,
riboflavin, folic acid), Sugar, Corn Syrup, Leavening (baking soda,
sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate). Contains 2% or less
of: Modified Corn Starch, Corn Starch, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean
and/or Cottonseed Oil, Propylene Glycol Mono and Diesters of Fatty
Acids, Salt, Distilled Monoglycerides, Dicalcium Phosphate, Natural and
Artificial Flavor, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose
Gum, Yellows 5&6, Nonfat Milk, Soy Lecithin


I do, however, offer this simple replacement. I have no idea why it was
named Jewish, the recipe goes back at least 70 years.


Jewish Apple Cake

Ingredients:

5 large or 6 medium sized apples pared and sliced

2 tsp. cinnamon

5 TBS Sugar


Mix the cinnamon and sugar together and mix with the apple slices.


In a mixing bowl:

3 cups sifted flour

2 cups sugar

1 cup oil

1/2 cup orange juice

3 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. vanilla

4 eggs -- add one at a time, mixing after each


Beat until smooth, about 10 minutes. Pour half of batter in 10 inch
tube pan, greased and floured.

Arrange half of apples.

Pour the rest of the batter, and arrange rest of apples.



Bake in an oven that was preheated to 350°