Maria's Panque

Ingredients

• 1 lb. butter, softened
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 6 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons rum
• 5 sliced apples
• 1 tablespoon rum

Method

• Cream butter with sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Cream together. Mix flour and dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture. Put 1/2 batter in pan. Spread apples on top. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of rum over apples. Cover with remaining batter. Place in buttered and floured large rectangular pan and bake at 325F for about 1 hour. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Notes

• Description:
• "This recipe is adapted from a friend, Senora Maria Mondragon, whom I
• met while working at Jordan's Winery in Healdsberg, California. She
• is wonderful and so is this cake!"
• SERVINGS: 12
• SOURCE: Apple Charlotte