Fresh Apple Cake

This cake is so moist, it had a hard time holding it's shape on the plate.  There is a lot of oil in the recipe and on top of that, as soon as it comes out of the oven you pour about 1 1/2 C of buttery sauce over it.  YUMMY!

Ingredients for cake:

2 C sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 C vegetable oil
1/4 C orange juice, freshly squeezed
3 C all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 T ground cinnamon
1 T vanilla extract
3 C peeled and finely chopped apples
1 C shredded coconut, toasted
1 C chopped pecans, toasted

Sauce:
1/2 C butter
1 C sugar
1/2 C buttermilk
1/2 tsp baking soda

Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Generously grease a tube pan (NOT a bundt pan).

For the cake: in a large bowl, combine the sugar, eggs, oil, oj, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and vanilla.  Mix well. Fold in apples, coconut and pecans.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake approximately 1 1/2 hours or until tester comes out clean.

Shortly before the cake is done, make the sauce: Melt the butter in a large saucepan, stir in the sugar, buttermilk and baking soda.  Bring to a rolling boil, stirring constantly.  Boil for 1 minute. our the sauce over the hot cake in the pan as soon as you remove it from the oven.  Let stand 1 hours, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.

Recipe courtesy of Paula Deen.