Deep Dish Apple Crunch Cake (coincidentally Vegan)

Makes one 9” springform cake

Cake

2 cups sugar

⅔ cups shortening 

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

3 cups ap flour

1 ½ teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

3 cups apples, peeled & dice

Crunch Topping

½ cup shortening, melted

¼ cup sugar

¼ cup flour

¼ teaspoon salt

1 cup walnuts & pecans, chopped

In a large bowl, mix sugar and shortening until sandy. Mix in eggs and vanilla and stir until light and fluffy. Add in all dry ingredients, stirring just until mixture comes together. Fold in apples. Transfer crumbly cake mixture into a well greased 9” cake pan (I love a springform). 

Prep the Crunch Topping: in a medium bowl mix melted shortening and sugar together until wet and sandy. Stir in remaining ingredients and mix until clusters form. Scatter evenly across the surface of the cake batter. 

Bake at 350F for 40-50 mins until brown and toasty at the edges and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool before removing from pan, slicing & serving.