An Unfair Advantage
If you need someone to re-grout your shower, make this cake.
If you need an eighteen foot trench dug in your yard, make this cake.
If you need horse manure shoveled, yes, make this cake.
If you have any disgusting task or duty to perform, you will have the unfair advantage of getting it done by OFFERING up this cake!
Just yesterday, I needed the floors washed. It's now done because I MADE THIS CAKE!
Oh trust me, this is another ridiculous, preposterous dessert. You will have supreme power over anyone you feed this to. Isn't that what you want...power? I beg you to try this Butterscotch-Apple Cake. Actually, I command you, since I have this cake and have all the power! Ha!
Now, go find a REALLY nasty chore you want completed, make this cake and once it starts baking and the aromas start wafting throughout the house you will have all authority. Oh yes you will. Spouses are the most likely candidates to succumb to your new found power trip.
Let's get to it.
Here they are...all the ingredients you need to begin your authoritative reign. Vegetable oil, sugar, eggs, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, vanilla, apples, pecans, butterscotch morsels and caramel sauce.
This is going to be good and you will hardly expend much energy making it.
Let's mix up the dry ingredients first.
Yes, get out your giant vat of all-purpose flour. I know you have one.
Add 2 cups of all-purpose flour to a mixing bowl.
Clamor to get your Clabber...
Add 1-1/2 teaspoons of baking powder to the bowl.
Think about what it says on this package...for baking, cleaning and deodorizing...ummm, that's weird don't you think? Put it in your cake and then go clean the toilet with it! Very, very strange.
1 teaspoon (of the toilet cleaner) baking soda will do.
Grab the salt.
1 teaspoon of salt gets added.
Now for the Canela Molida. I did not get this cinnamon in Mexico in case you were wondering.
1 teaspoon of cinnamon is the last of the dry ingredients.
Mix all of these up and set aside.
Now let's move on to the wet stuff.
Add 1 cup of vegetable oil to a mixing bowl.
Time for the sweet stuff! Yippee!
Add 2 cups of sugar to the oil.
This is Tweedledee and Tweedledum. They have no idea of their impending fate.
First add Tweedledee because Tweedledum is too lame to know what's going on.
Start mixing then add the other egg.
But notice how I'm using my hand-held mixer. I usually use my heavy-duty mixer for this cake. Stick with the heavy-duty mixer. That's all I'm going to say.
Now add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until fully incorporated.
Can you tell which ones are the girls? I'll help you, the boys have stems (yes, I'm juvenile).
Peel away.
You will need 3 cups of Granny Smith apples (about 3-4 apples) peeled and chopped into small cubes.
Sometimes I feel like a nut. Sometimes I don't. But mostly I do.
1 cup of chopped pecans. First chop them and then fill up one cup. I know that can be confusing.
Add the apples, pecans and 1 teaspoon of vanilla to the already mixed batter and stir it all together; it will be very thick.
Add the batter mixture to a greased 9 x 13 pan.
Now for the good part. This is what makes this cake soooooooo over-the-top.
Sprinkle 1 cup of Butterscotch Chips over the batter. These are going to melt into the cake and make it astonishing.
Place the pan into a 350 degree oven for 55 minutes.
When it comes out of the oven, it will look like this.
Let the cake completely cool before cutting. It will be hard to wait, but you must.
Then get this. You do not need the high-end caramel for this cake. It's not necessary.
I love how this bottle says "Fat Free" on the label. Yeah, this is definitely diet food.
Now cut your slice and drizzle caramel over each piece as you serve it.
Then add some whipped cream and fall into a sugary, sweet coma.
You have to try this. You really do.
Butterscotch-Apple Cake
adapted from Taste of the South
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups finely chopped, peeled apples
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup butterscotch morsels
Garnish: caramel sauce and whipped cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In a large mixing bowl, mix together oil and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon; beat well. Stir in vanilla, apples and pecans. (Mixture will be thick).
Spread mixture evenly in a greased 9 x 13 -inch baking pan. Sprinkle butterscotch chips over top. Bake for 55 minutes.
Cool completely in pan. Garnish with caramel sauce and whipped cream.
This cake is so moist and rich it will taste like you slaved in the kitchen all day.
Your family will be eating out of your hand...I promise.
OHMIGAWD. I think I gained weight just looking at the pictures...and I don't even care. That looks DELISH and I can hardly wait to make it. (I'll bet even a spoonful of the uncooked batter would taste great.)
As always, your photos are fabulous. The apples do look pretty!
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I would scrub your toilet (with baking soda) for a slice of that cake, yes I would...
Thanks for the lovely comments on my blog. Flattery will get you everywhere!
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Oh. My. GAWD. You're trying to kill me, you know that? I just read the name of this recipe to my husband who said "Nice....". I'm so making this cake this weekend. We're having dinner at a friends house and it might be perfect to take over. Or maybe I'll just make it and keep it all for myself.
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absolutely, positively sinful. this has the potential to be my favorite cake ever, and there's not even any cream cheese icing involved! i think i'll wait until i'm feeling particularly underweight to make it.
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I'm not really a butterscotch kind of girl, but those pictures could sway me to the dark side. The force is strong in you....
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WOW WOW WOW!! Butterscotch and caramel are my fave flavors. I might like this one. And hey, I appreciate that the caramel is fat-free- just had my gallbladder removed and nothing with fat sounds particularly appetizing right now!! Love your humor (and your cake.)
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I just knew when I opened your blog today, that you were going to make me drool & I'll be damned if I didn't. From the second I saw that decadent dessert. If you're not making me drool over gorgeous land & fine wines, it's desserts!
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Um...I am pretty sure I NEED this cake!
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Oh yeah...
I have TONS of yucky Spring Cleaning chores that need to be 'sweet talked' with some 'Shooga'....
Yum, yum, yum!!!
LOVE your photos, humor, and twisted sisterness...
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My arteries thank you - and so does my ASS! LOL
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Yay! Another reason not to start the taxes!
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I think I would do anything for a slice fo this cake!
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My, that does look good! I <3 granny smith apples and caramel. I'd have to do it without the pecans, though. I just don't like nuts for some reason.
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Wow that looks great! I have never seen such a large container of cinnamon before in my life!
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Wait a second. Did I hear you right? "Butterscotch Apple Cake"??? Are you friggin' kidding me????
YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. I'm going to the grocery store right this second. Good Lord, girl.
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That cake looks so good!! I just found some butterscotch chips and I was wondering what to do with them. Using them in a cake with granny smith apples sounds perfect.
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That looks utterly delicious! I just realized that we hadn't linked to you on The Oregon Wine Blog -- so I've just added it
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OH-My- Gahd! You had me at the butterschotch chips! I'm making this baby!
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You know, since I don't really cook, at all- I think you should just send my family one of these. Looks dee-lish
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Don't you love the power that a good cake can yield?! Looks great!
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Oh my god. I once (when I was little) Ate an entire bag of butterscotch chips. Instead of making me never eat them again, it really just sealed my lifelong love affair with them. This is a cake for the ages.
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whoa...if i make it with homemade caramel sauce, will i have actual magical powers?
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I just 'stumbled upon' your blog and couldn't believe my eyes! That cake!! And I really enjoyed the humor you injected, too. This will be a priority on my baking list-hopefully this weekend. Thanks!
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wwwwwwwwwwwooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!stumbled across this cake and man does it look sooooooo gooooodddd.....and the great part about it is the step by step pictures you put here....great for those who are visual learners... great job...props to you.....ps...I think I just gained about 20 pounds just looking at the pictures also
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i just stumbled upon and goshhhhhh....
i can't stop smile, it's addictive...
by the way, great sense of humor, luv it, and luv ya
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I like your style.
No, wait, i LOVE your style!!
Spring is here. I'm gonna set the windows slightly ajar, put all kinds of gardening tools by the door and bake the cake.
Then I'll just lean back and listen to all the garden-work-noises my neighbors make as they struggle to earn a tiny bit.
Mwahahahaha !!
Thanks and keep up the good work =o)
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OH my god! That looks scrummy. I love the apple joke by the way. What are the caramel morsels? We don't have them at my local supermarket. Believe me I'd have some in my cupboard if they did! I'll have to track some down and try this as it looks just right!
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hi looks fantastic...I´ll try it this weekend
good pics and directions...húrra
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You are SOOOO wrong to have posted this! Oh my goodness! I LOOOOOOOVE caramel and apples together, and then you had to add butterscotch chips and pecans!!!!! I am trying to lose weight, and "Stumbling" upon blogs like this do NOT help!
Still, I think I may just have to try it when I have company, or need to take a dessert somewhere. That way it's not just sitting at my house taunting me!
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Oh my!
I have stumbled on hundreds of pages in my stumbling life and never have felt the need to leave a comment before seeing this cake...
I practically licked my screen...
Need help though I'm in UK and we have two types of flour here...plain and self raising?? which would be the equivalent of your all purpose? I'm not thinking of cleaning jobs here but something far more pleasant to persuade my partner to do...wink wink!!
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plain is the one you want. Self-rising has some leavening agent in it (and i think some salt?) that makes it different.
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Wow! That looks amazing!
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Mama mia! :-O
I will say this as someone who loves to bake but has a diabetic mother:
You *do* have an unfair advantage with this cake--especially since diabetics would have to tweak the ingredients to this cake big time. And I can feel my own pancreas shrieking and holding its hands over its face (if it had a face and hands) and going "NOOOOOOO! Don't do this to me!"
Good thing there's no calories in humor! And sis, you have plenty of that...
Blessings,
Kat ^.^
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Holy.... cow.
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I love it. Caramel and butterscotch yummy. I loved all your side comments! I feel myself slipping off my diet!
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I can not wait to make this cake!! It has all of my favorites. And Cathy, I think I hate you. Everytime I come here and look at your recipes I gain a pound! Why must they all be so good?!?!
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Muther Father! You're killin' me here! How the hell am I suppos'd ta train for races-n-such when there is food like this to make and eat. Tell me.... how? Hooooowwwwww? Killin' me!
You must stop this! But don't. But do... but don't - please don't...
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I love the pictorial - anything apple is a winner but add the sauce and I can see how they bow to your whim. Great looking cake.
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I already went to the grocery store and got the ingredients that I was missing, Im going to cook this!
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I am very excited about your recipe. I plan to use it this weekend for dinner with the in-laws.
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Mmmmmm. Thank you for the recipe, this is sooo good
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Good lord...that has to be the best cake ever created. I bow to you. No, really, I'm bowing. And typing. At the same time.
It's not easy, ya know.
Brilliant recipe. I shall be making this. My poor husband won't even know what hit him. This will get the spring cleaning finished, methinks.
<3
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I'm gonna sell my gym, I can't compete with this... Hard to type with the drool on my keys.
And I don't even like cake.
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Mmmm I made this today and I'm just eating it noww. One word: amaziinng. Soft but not too soft, sweet but not too sweet. Will definetely make again. =)
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my dear, how much do you weigh?
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Tried it over the weekend... My kids went CRAZY! Wife thinks I'm a CHEF!
THANK YOU!
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Surprised there was no comment about the umbrella girl on her back. Are you her? Just asking. I am 71, married and not a rain maker.
Suggest improvement by using Cadbury Carmel Bars instead of Nestle Butterscotch, and adding ground Cardomon.
Absolutely loved your approach.
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I just made this cake. It is very easy to put together. I can smell it baking in the oven and can't wait to indulge!!!!!
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Wahoo! Come to mama! That cake is ace!
I absolutely loved the comments too. I think I'm in love with you just reading your demonstration of the cake making. lol
Makes for a very interesting read (as opposed to boring 'here are the instructions to bake').
Simply lovely!
French bird.
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I've stumbled upon the most amazing cake in the world. I almost cried when I realised that butterscotch chips are not made in Australia, and there isn't really anything else like them that could be used to replace them.
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This looks really good!
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It looked really good so I had to make it myself. It will be done shortly and I'll see how mine turned out as I added a bit of nutmeg as well.
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I found your site through StumbleUpon and despite the fact that I'm too sick to get out of bed, I had to make this cake. I dragged my ass out of bed, to the store to buy the apples and butterscotch, back home, into the kitchen, whipped it up in no time flat, and then slept all day, waking up at two hour intervals to eat another huge slice. It was awesome, and it made being sick in bed very, very enjoyable. Thank you!
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I stumbled upon this and then made this cake for my junior prom dinner. Everyone who tried it agrees that it's the most delecious thing ever.
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I'm so glad that I stumbled onto your site. That dessert looks absolutely sinful and I'm going to make it this very weekend!
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Thank you. I Thank You,My Kids Will Thank You.
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=O Delicious looking... I'll be making this in the very near future!
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You forgot, if you want someone to marry you...make this cake. I stumbled this, as one of the best recipes I've seen. Love the anecdotes, too. Thanks!
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The pictures and the narration had me salivating well before I got to the final product. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm that looks good
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I need new brakes and an oil change. I see some baking in my future!
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Not only does this dessert look absolutely decadent, but you have to be the most entertaining recipe giver I've ever read. I thoroughly enjoyed the recipe and plan to make it this weekend. TFS!
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Looks Awesome, Can't wait to try it.
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As I can't get butterscotch morsels in any store here in the UK... I will have to resort to buying them off eBay...
My wife is begging me to make this cake... Now _I_ am the master!
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You are SO cute. Love the photography and step-by-step!
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YIKES! I did just gain 5 lbs just looking at this! I'm bookmarking this to make for the kids!
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