Apple Cake For Two Recipe - Le Gourmet TV<br /> <br />Sometimes an entire cake is a bit much - So here is our ‘Apple Cake For Two Recipe’ - just enough for a taste, and not so much that you’re eating it all week. Or feeling horrible because you ate a full-size cake in one sitting.<br /><br />Yields 1 6" cake.<br /><br />Ingredients:<br />1/4 cup (60 mL) canola oil<br />1/2 cup (125 mL) sugar mix white & brown<br />1 large egg<br />1/2 tsp (2 mL) cinnamon<br />1/4 tsp (1 mL) cloves<br />1/4 tsp (1 mL) allspice<br />1/2 tsp (2 mL) pure vanilla extract<br />1/2 cup (125 mL) packed grated apple (from 1 - small apple)<br />1/2 cup (125 mL) all-purpose flour<br />1/2 tsp (2 mL) baking powder<br />1/4 cup (60 mL) chopped pecans<br /><br />Method:<br />Preheat the oven to 350°F (180ºC).<br />Grease a 6” square or round cake pan with butter. <br />Beat together the canola oil and sugar. <br />Add the egg, cinnamon, cloves, allspice and vanilla and beat another minute. <br />Grate in the apple and beat until well combined. <br />Combine the flour and baking powder then stir into the apple mixture until just combined. <br />Do not overmix. <br />Stir in the pecans at this point.<br />Pour the batter into the pan, and bake for about 40 minutes. <br />Moist crumbs on a toothpick inserted in the middle indicate done.<br />Allow the cake to cool completely on a wire rack.<br />Serve with some butterscotch sauce.
