Apple Oil Change Cake

 APPLE OIL CHANGE COFEE CAKE.............................tart-sweet buttery thing that is perfec on a gloomy, rainy day like this.

 Ingredients...simple....everyone has them.

 Topping...not with the original recipe......adds a nice hat to the cake.

Was waiting at the dealership for my car to get an oil change, bored , bored, bored. Started rifling through the magazines that abound at these places and came across this recipe. Seems so cliche , but couldn't resist it......Nothing to write on, so grabbed some industrial strength paper towel, a pen, and scribbled it down as fast as possible. Simple ingredients. End result is something buttery, without being buttery, with the tart-sweet of the Granny Smith Apples. More like a coffee cake, than anything else. Added a crumbly  misture to pretty up the top ......IF you wanted this as a dessert, you could add whip cream or ice cream. But this is great, on its own. Does not make a big "cake", which is nice....disappears faster.....

APPLE Oil Change CAKE (2011)

¾ cup flour
¾ tsp baking powder
Pinch salt
4 large apples cut up into small chunks
2 eggs
¾ cup sugar
Splash vanilla
½ cup butter, melted and cooled

1.    Line 9 inch springform pan with foil and spray with veggie oil
2.   Put on cookie sheet
3.   Whisk flour/baking powder/salt
4.   Peel apples and toss in lemon juice, set aside
5.   Beat eggs/sugar/vanilla
6.   Whisk in flour , alternating with melted butter, till smooth and thick batter forms.
7.   Fold in apples to the batter.
8.   Scrape into prepared pan.
9.   TOPPING ( optional): Combine ¼ cup softened butter with a small handful of brown sugar, and a small handful of flour, pinch of cinnamon.  Combine till crumbly and toss over top of batter.
10.Bake about 50 minutes. Check at 35 to see how far along it is. Knife inserted into cake should come out clean.
11. Remove from springform pan when done.