🍎 Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Apple Bundt Cake with Raisins

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This recipe provides a rustic, wholesome, and moist cake, perfect for a treat or an easy dessert.

Ingredients

  • 3 medium apples, peeled, cored, and grated

  • ¾ cup vegetable oil

  • 1 cup granulated sugar

  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

  • 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder

  • 1 ½ cups old-fashioned oatmeal (rolled oats)

  • ½ cup raisins (optional, but in the picture)

  • ½ cup chopped walnuts (optional)

  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

  • ¼ teaspoon ginger powder

  • ¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg

  • 2 large eggs (not explicitly listed in all searches but standard for a cake)

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (not explicitly listed in all searches but standard for a cake)

Instructions

  1. Preheat Oven & Prep Pan: Preheat your oven to $350^{\circ} \text{F}$ ($175^{\circ} \text{C}$). Thoroughly butter and flour a 9-inch Bundt pan, tapping out any excess flour.

  2. Combine Wet Ingredients: In a large bowl, mix the vegetable oil, granulated sugar, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg until well combined. Beat in the eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla extract.

  3. Combine Dry Ingredients: In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour and baking powder.

  4. Mix Batter: Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix well.

  5. Fold in Inclusions: Gently fold in the chopped walnuts and raisins (if using). Then, add the old-fashioned oatmeal and the grated apples. Incorporate well, ensuring everything is evenly distributed. The batter will be thick.

  6. Bake: Pour the batter evenly into the prepared bundt pan.

  7. Cook: Bake for about 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

  8. Cool: Let the cake stand in the pan for 15 minutes before carefully inverting it onto a wire rack to cool completely.

🍝 Pasta Dish Ideas

The second image shows a variety of pasta shapes, suggesting a request for different kinds of pasta recipes. Pasta is versatile and can be categorized by how it’s prepared:

Category Description Classic Recipe Examples
Pasta Asciutta Cooked pasta plated and served with a complementary sauce or condiment. Spaghetti Carbonara, Cacio e Pepe, Fettuccine Alfredo, Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
Pasta al Forno Baked pasta dishes, where the pasta is incorporated with a sauce and cheese, then baked until bubbly. Classic Lasagna, Baked Ziti, Macaroni and Cheese, Tuna Pasta Bake
Pasta in Brodo Pasta served in a broth or soup. Minestrone, Tortellini in Brodo, Feel-good Pasta Soup

⭐ Recipe Highlight: Classic Spaghetti Carbonara

This is a Roman classic, simple yet incredibly rich and flavorful.

  • Ingredients:

    • 4 large egg yolks

    • 2 oz (approx. ½ cup) grated Pecorino Romano cheese (plus more for serving)

    • 4 oz Guanciale (cured pork jowl) or Pancetta, cubed

    • 1 lb Spaghetti

    • Freshly ground black pepper

  • Instructions (Summary):

    1. Cook spaghetti al dente. Reserve about 1 cup of the starchy pasta water.

    2. Meanwhile, sauté the guanciale/pancetta in a pan until crispy and the fat is rendered. Remove the crispy bits and set aside, leaving the rendered fat in the pan.

    3. In a bowl, whisk the egg yolks, Pecorino Romano cheese, and a generous amount of black pepper until smooth and creamy.

    4. Toss the hot, drained pasta into the pan with the rendered fat to coat. Remove the pan from the heat.

    5. Quickly pour the egg and cheese mixture over the pasta, tossing vigorously to emulsify. The heat from the pasta, not the stovetop, cooks the egg. Add a little reserved pasta water, tablespoon by tablespoon, until a creamy sauce forms.

    6. Stir in the crispy pork. Serve immediately with extra Pecorino and black pepper.

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