A close friend gave me two golden delicious apples a week ago. A few days ago I cut one in half and took a taste and it was subpar in texture and flavor. I put the other half in water. It sat there a few days and then I decided maybe making an apple cake could salvage the apples rather than eating something I didn’t enjoy or throwing them out.

I’ve never made an apple cake so I googled some recipes and am very happy with the outcome! I made half the recipe and added 3 teaspoons of applesauce. Not measuring teaspoons, but rather flatware teaspoons. Since the apple sauce is sweet and adds moisture I cut the sugar from 1 cup to 7/8ths-ish. Plus, I cut the oil a little.

Here is the full recipe. https://www.food.com/recipe/german-apple-cake-16883