Recipe: Apple Pie Cake with Rum Butter Sauce (cake baked in a pie pan)

APPLE PIE CAKE WITH RUM BUTTER SAUCE

1/4 cup softened butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons hot water
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups peeled and diced cooking apples
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Rum Butter Sauce (recipe follows)
Whipped cream (optional, for serving)

Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of electric mixer. Add egg; beat until blended.

Combine flour, salt, and cinnamon; mix well. Add to creamed mixture; beat on low speed until smooth. Stir in water and vanilla. Fold in apples and pecans; spoon into a greased and floured 9-inch pie plate.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Serve warm or cold with Rum Butter Sauce and whipped cream.

RUM BUTTER SAUCE
Yields 1 1/4 cups

1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/4 cup softened butter or margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup heavy (whipping) cream
1 tablespoon rum

Combine first 4 ingredients into a small saucepan; mix well. Bring to a boil and cook 1 minute. Stir in rum.

Makes 1 (9-inch) cake
Source: A Cookbook of Treasures
From: Best of the Best from the Mid-Atlantic Cookbook by Gwen McKee (Editor), Barbara Moseley (Editor)