Butterscotch Harvest Apple Cake

Butterscotch Harvest Apple Cake is a wonderful cake full of all the flavors of the autumn season, apples, spices, and a touch of butterscotch.

This recipe is from Jan Thomas, (Janice Robertson Thomas, Larry's Daughter).  I've been baking this cake for 30 years, but somehow I've never shared the recipe . It's about time! This cake is a timeless classic, and anyone who tastes it instantly loves it. Perfect to make for a carnival cake walk, or bake sale, or pot luck dessert table. You can make it as bundt cake or in a 9 x 13 pan. I bet if you shredded the apple or diced them small enough you could even make muffins, but I have never done it.

Plan on bringing copies of the recipe with you when you bring it along. you'll be asked for it.

Jan's Tip: The original Recipe did not call for any glaze topping at all. It is fine without it, but a powdered sugar glaze is a wonderful addition to the cake. I love to melt the remaining butterscotch chips into the glaze and turn it into a butterscotch glaze. My husbands  Grandmother's Butter-Rum Sauce recipe would be perfect to serve over the cake too! but you certainly have options!

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I usually make this cake right after we return from apple picking at our favorite orchard. Our husband's family has been picking there for over 40 years at least so we take it very seriously this apple picking tradition!


Although these apples weren't picked from our favorite orchard, the backdrop I used for this photoshoot for my blog, was Grandma Robertson's tablecloth. It has apples on it and I love to pull it out and use it, especially during the fall apple season! I feel memories like these, she'd want us to use often and enjoy! Not tuck away, afraid to use, or wait for that special day, that then never seems to come. So... Out the cloth comes! And we eat over it, laugh over it, play games over it, and always, always remember where we come from over it.

Ready to fill your home with the scents of Autumn? Let's get baking!

Butterscotch Harvest Apple Cake

Butterscotch Harvest Apple Cake is a wonderful cake full of all the flavors of the autumn season, apples, spices, and a touch of butterscotch.

ingredients:

• 1 Cup butter softened
• 2 Cups Imperial Brand Sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 cups tart apples, peeled and chopped
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp . baking soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 cup.  chopped walnuts
• 1 cup butterscotch chips

Butterscotch Glaze

• 1 1/2 - 2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 Tablespoons Milk
• 1/2 cup butterscotch chips

instructions:

1. Preheat Oven to 350 degrees. grease a 9 x 13 or a bundt pan.
2. In a medium bowl, cream butter and sugar. add eggs and beat well.
3. In a separate bowl, mix flour, soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
4. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture, and blend well.
5. Sir in apples, nuts, and butterscotch chips. Pour into prepared pan.
6. Bake for 1 hour, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 
7. If a Bundt cake: Allow to cool 10 minutes in pan before gently losening edges and placing serving platter on top and then flipping pan and plate over to release cake onto plate. 
8. Allow cake to cool completely. While cooling. Mix up glaze, by  stirring together powdered sugar and milk. melt  butterscotch chips according to package directions and pour into sugar mixture, stirring well. 
   Add milk or more powdered sugar to desired consistency. 
9. When cake is completley cool, drizzle glaze over cake. 

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