We're having unseasonably warm temps in New England the last few days. I saw this recipe on Pinterest and despite that fact that it was going to heat up the house, I couldn't resist. Instead of boiling the brown sugar/butter mixture on the stove, I put both into the cake pan and into the oven while it preheated. By time I'd mixed the batter ingredients and sliced the apples, it was ready to go. I had 2 nice sized honeycrisp, and I sliced them about 1/4" thick and overlapped them in a pretty design. My cake baked in exactly 50 mins, and and some point I realized that I'd forgotten to grease or spray the sides of the pan. I got lucky, I ran a knife around the edge and I only had minor sticking. I did not make the whipped topping, it was a fantastic cake without it. Thank you to Alyssa at The Recipe Critic, this one is "I don't care if it's nearly 80 degrees out, I have to bake this cake" good. *
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