Recipe for Apple Coffee Cake:
Ingredients for the Apple Filling and Topping: 2 tsp cinnamon, 5 tsp sugar,5 to 6 cups sliced apples (Granny Smiths are recommended).
For the cake:2 cups sugar, 1 cup applesauce, 4 tsp vanilla, 1/2 cup orange juice, pinch salt, 4 eggs, lightly beaten, 3 cups plain flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp nutmeg.
Preheat oven to 180C. Grease a 12-cup ring or bundt (those fancy shaped round pans) pan. Combine cinnamon and sugar and set aside 1 tablespoon. Toss prepared apples with remainder and set aside. For the cake, whisk together sugar, applesauce, vanilla, oj, salt, and eggs. Combine flour, baking powder, and nutmeg and fold into sugar mixture. Spoon a little more than one-third of the batter into prepared pan. Cover with half of apple mixture, then spoon in remaining batter and apple slices. Sprinkle top lightly with the reserved cinnamon-sugar. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour or until done. Loosen sides with a butter knife, then invert cake onto a plate for serving.