APPLE SPICE CAKE
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
3 large eggs
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 TB Signature Spices Dutch Apple Pie Spice
1 TB dark rum
1 tsp vanilla
3 Cortland or Empire apples, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch dice
1/2 cup raisins
Preheat oven to 350°F and butter and flour a 12-cup bundt pan, knocking out excess
flour.
Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Whisk together oil, eggs, sugars, spices,
rum, and vanilla in a large bowl. Fold in flour mixture until just combined. Fold in
apples and raisins and spoon batter into pan.
Bake in middle of oven until a tester comes out clean, about 1 1/4 hours.
Cool cake in pan on a rack 10 minutes, then turn out onto rack to cool completely.