Mama's Pound Cake & Aunt Eva's Fresh Apple Cake

Mama's Pound Cake
Mama always had one of these cakes baked when we came home for a visit

Duncan Hines OR
Betty Crocker Cake Mix--yellow, butter with pudding in the mix
5 eggs
1/2 C sugar
1/3 C crisco oil
1/4 C cold water
1 C sour cream

If you want, you can add vanilla or lemon flavoring. Beat all ingredients real good. Grease & flour bundt cake pan. Bake in 350 oven for 35 to 40 minutes. Cool on a rack. You may put a glaze on the cake but we like it plain.

Aunt Eva's Fresh Apple Cake
My aunt always welcomed our visits and tried making us feel at home with good home cooked meals and deserts. This was one of her "special" treats because she knew how much we loved it!

1 1/4 C oil
2 C sugar
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking pwd
1 tsp. vanilla
3 eggs
3 C flour
1 C pecans
1 C black walnuts
1 C coconut
3 C chopped apples
Cream oil & Sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Add flavoring. Sift flour, soda and salt and baking pwd. and add to above. Mix well, then add apples, coconut and nuts. Bake in greased and floured bundt pan in 300 oven for 1 1/2 hour.

Icing: 1 1/2 sticks butter
1 1/2 C brown sugar
2 tsp vanilla
9 Tbl. evaporated milk
Bring to a boil. Boil 5 min. Let cool. Beat until thick. Ice sides and top of cake and refrigerate for 24 hours before cutting. This cake freezes nicely.