From Smitten Kitchen, this is an easy and cinnamon-y apple cake.

Ingredients

• 6 apples, cored and chopped into smallish pieces
• 1 T cinnamon
• 5 T sugar
• 2.75 c flour
• 1 T baking powder
• 1 t salt
• 1 c vegetable oil (or melted butter)
• 2 c sugar
• 1/4 c orange juice
• 2.5 t vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 1 c chopped walnuts (optional)

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180.  Toss apples with cinnamon and 5 T sugar and set aside.
2. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl.
3. Combine oil, orange juice, sugar, and vanilla.
4. Mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients, then add the eggs one at a time.
5. Grease a pan, pour 1/2 the batter, then cover with 1/2 the apples, then pour the other 1/2 of the batter and layer the top of the cake with apples.
6. Bake ~1.5 hours, until a tester comes out clean.