Apple Cake and Butter Sauce

Ingridients

1 cup white sugar

1/4 cup butter

2 large apples

2 eggs

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 cup butter

1 cup white sugar

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

Peel, core, and grate the apples.

Cream together 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup butter or margarine. Stir in the grated apples and eggs. Sift together flour, salt, soda, nutmeg, and cinnamon; mix into the apple mixture. Pour batter into an ungreased 9 inch glass pie plate.

Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 50 minutes. Remove from oven.

Place 1/2 cup butter or margarine, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup cream, and vanilla in the top pan of a double boiler. Heat and stir until sugar has dissolved and butter or margarine has melted. Serve over apple cake.