1 Yellow cake mix, made to package directions
3-4 of your favorite cooking apples peeled, cored and thinly sliced, in rings makes building the cake quicker(I usually use McIntosh if I can find them)
1/2 cup brown sugar (More or less, to taste)
1 Tablespoon cinnamon (Again more or less, to taste)
1/2 teaspoon allspice, freshly ground, if you can (Yeah, more or less, to taste)
Batter in a prepared 9x13 pan. "Shingle" the apple slices on the cake, overlapping by half. Sprinkle the brown sugar, cinnamon and allspice on the apples. Bake according to package directions, but cake may take up to five minutes longer to bake than directions call for.
This is one of my "hurry up emergency desserts." You don't have to let it cool to frost it because you don't frost it. You don't even need to let it cool, it goes great still warm with vanilla ice cream. I have served this after discovering at 4 pm that we were having dinner guests at 6.
My oldest daughter was in the mood to bake today, so she was looking at the various apple cake recipes all of you had posted as well as a recipe she had saved for Chocolate cheese danish she saw Giada make on TV this past week. She decided to make Giada’s pastries for dessert with our dinner tonight and the Easy Apple cake for a breakfast coffee cake.
She substituted pears for the apples since we had 4 large pears we needed to use up. The easy apple cake recipe worked perfectly with the sliced pears instead of the apples and was a real big hit at our house. It was absolutely scrumptious!
Here is the link to the Chocolate Cheese danish she made today:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/chocolate-and-cheese-danish-recipe/index.html
We tasted one of the extra danish and thought they were so chocolatey that they needed to be topped with a sprinkling of powdered sugar and a dollop of whipped cream. At they very least they need a big glass of milk with them! They are delicious too!
I guess we better be on diets for the rest of the week!