Ingredients:

  • 1 ½ cup olive oil

  • 2 cups sugar

  • 3 eggs

  • 3 cups all purpose flour

  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg

  • 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon

  • pinch ground cloves

  • pinch mace

  • ½ teaspoon salt

  • 3 ½ cups raw chopped apples, peeled

  • ¾ cup chopped roasted pecans

  • 2 teaspoons vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Sift all dry ingredients together. Set aside.

Blend olive oil and sugar in electric mixer at medium speed for 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time and beat well. Add dry Ingredients to oil mixture and combine thoroughly. Add apples, pecans and raisins and blend well with spatula. Pour batter into a buttered and floured 10‑inch spring form pan. Bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hrs. or until an inserted knife comes out dry.