Aunt Mary's Apple Walnut Cake

Ingredients

1 Duncan Hines Spice Cake mix

1/2 cp. chopped walnuts

3 cps. Granny Smith apples ( peeled and diced) or 1 cp. applesauce

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 cp. brown sugar, packed

3 large eggs

1/2 cp. Crisco oil

1 1/3 cp. water

Directions

Mix dry ingredients.  Add oil, water, eggs.  Beat 3 minutes or until mixed.  Pour into greased & floured 13 x 9 pan or Bundt pan.  Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.  Cool and frost.

                                                    Browned-Butter Frosting

1 cp. butter

1 16 oz. pkg powdered sugar

1/4 cp milk

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Cook butter in a small heavy saucepan over medium hear, stirring constantly, 6-8 minutes or until butter begins to turn golden brown.  Remove pan from heat immediately, and pour butter into a small bowl.  Cover and chill 1 hour or until butter is cool and begins to solidify.

Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy; gradually add powdered sugar alternately with milk, beginning and ending with powdered sugar.  Beat mixture at low speed until well blended after each addition.  Stir in vanilla.

from Mary Grotz