Recipe: Kathy/Il -- Yet Another {groan} Apple Recipe!!

Kathy,

This was in today's afternoon paper which just came so I oobviously haven't tried it yet, but I thought it looked fantastic in the picture!!!! {drool!}

Iced Apple Cake


4 cups peeled, chopped, cored Macintosh apples
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 c. veg. oil
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 c. flour
2 tsp. bakinng soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. chopped English walnuts

Icing:

3 c. powdered sugar
2 T. margarine
2 T. cream cheese
2 - 4 T. apple cider

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In large mixing bowl, stir apples and sugar to coat.

2. In another bowl, mix eggs, oil and vanilla. sift together flour, baking soda,
cinnamon and salt. Add dry ingredients to egg mixtuure, alternating with
apples. Stir in walnuts.

3 Spread in 9"x13" pan. Bake for 1 hour.

4. To prepare icing: With an electric mixer, beat together sugar, margarine,
and cream cheese until well blended. Gradually add cider until of spreading
constistency.