Spiced Caramel Apple Bundt Cake

Time: 3 hours (including prep/bake/cooling)
Yield: 1 bundt cake
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Ingredients:

• 2 TB butter
• 3 cups + 2 TB flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 2 tsp vanilla 
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 TB cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp cloves
• 1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2-3 cups peeled, cored, and diced tart apples
•  Caramel drizzle and powdered sugar for garnish

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Mix softened butter (2 TB) with 2 TB flour to make paste--spread all over inside of bundt cake pan
• With an electric mixer, beat sugar, oil, eggs. Add in juice and vanilla
• Sift together baking soda, flour, cinnamon, salt, cloves, nutmeg, adding to the sugar mixture
• Stir in apples, pour into bundt cake pan
• Bake about 1 hour 30 minutes, or until fork comes out clean
• Cool 15 minutes prior to turning out onto a plate and garnishing