Kentucky Apple Cake

Ingredients:

  • 3 eggs
  • 2 c. sugar
  • 1 c. cooking oil
  • 2 c. self-rising flour
  • 2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 1/2 c. chopped walnuts
  • 4 to 5 c. thinly sliced apples (approximately 4 large apples)

Cream Cheese Icing:

  • 1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese
  • 1/3 c. melted butter
  • 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp. lemon juice

Directions:

Beat eggs with a mixer until thick and light. Combine sugar and oil. Pour into eggs with mixer on medium speed. Stir together flour and cinnamon, then add to egg mixture with vanilla. Beat to mix. Stir in walnuts. Spread apples in a buttered 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan. Pour batter over apples, spreading to cover.

Bake in a 350°F oven for 1 hour. Remove from oven and cool. Spread with Cream Cheese Icing.

Directions for icing

Soften cream cheese. Beat until fluffy. Beat in melted butter, then beat in sugar and lemon juice. Spread mix over cooled cake. Refrigerate.