Old Fashioned Sour Cream Cake with Apple – Nut Filling

Apple Nut Filling:

• 2 cups apples,peeled, cored and diced small
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 Tablespoon flour
• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 1/4 Teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/8 Teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts)
• 1 Teaspoon cinnamon

Cake batter:

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3/4 cup butter,softened
• 1 1/2 Teaspoons vanilla
• 3 eggs room temperature
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 Teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 Teaspoons baking soda
• 3/4 Teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups sour cream

Glaze:

• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/4 Teaspoon vanilla
• add enough milk to make a glaze. About 2 Tablespoons

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 325°F; grease a 12-cup Bundt pan or a 10×4-inch tube pan.
• Prepare apple-nut filling: Cook all ingredients, except nuts, over medium heat, stirring constantly. Cook until apples are tender. This will take approximately 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in nuts. Set aside.
• Combine sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs in a large mixing bowl. Beat at medium speed, 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Alternately add the dry ingredients and the sour cream, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Beat until each addition is just incorporated into the batter, don’t over beat.
• Spread 1/3 of the batter (about 2 cups) in the baking pan. Top with 1/3 of the filling. Repeat this pattern 2 more times, until all batter and filling have been used. 
• Bake at 325°F for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Cool in the pan for 20 minutes, then turnout onto a serving plate and cool completely.
• For the glaze:To prepare glaze: Mix all ingredients until smooth, then drizzle over cooled coffee cake

ORIGINAL RECIPE