Whole Wheat Apple Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 apples
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 350°F.

2. 2

   Grease and flour a 13x9-inch baking pan.

3. 3

   Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir in nuts.

4. 4

   Cream butter and sugar together. Stir in eggs, one at a time, mixing well. Stir in vanilla.

5. 5

   Peel, core, and chop apples. You should have about 3 cups.

6. 6

   Stir dry mixture and milk alternately into creamed mixture, starting and ending with dry mixture, making 3 additions of dry and 2 of milk.

7. 7

   Fold in the chopped apples.

8. 8

   Bake in the greased and floured 13x9-inch baking pan in a preheated 350°F oven for about 35 minutes, or until a tester poked in the centre comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pan before cutting. Cut into 32 pieces.