I made Ina Garten's easy apple spice cake. It's the perfect dessert for fall.
Ina Garten shared the apple spice cake on an early episode of “Barefoot Contessa.” She said she once sold similar cakes at the Hamptons food store where her cooking career began.
The recipe makes a homestyle dessert, Garten explained, describing it as simple and flavorful rather than elaborate.
The writer heated the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and prepared a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with grease and flour.
To bring out their flavor, the chopped pecans were toasted for eight minutes. Raisins were combined with rum and microwaved for 60 seconds.
The batter started with sugars, eggs, vegetable oil, vanilla and orange zest. Flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves were sifted together, then mixed into the wet ingredients until just combined.
Key points
- Garten said the cake was once sold at the Hamptons store that helped launch her career.
- The recipe uses toasted pecans and raisins warmed with rum.
- The article describes the batter preparation; it does not provide the finished cake’s result.