88 All-Time Best Dinner Recipes

This is a delicious cake with a hard crackly crust, but it’s not the Paula Deen cake. I lost my copy of the actual Paula Deen recipe (I’ve made this cake many times in the past) and was thrilled when I found this one. But when I made this cake it came out with a very hard crust and collapsed when it cooled. Also, when I checked it at an hour and 15 minutes it was done. So figuring I did something wrong, I tried it again. Same thing. Hard crust, cracks all around. I finally found my copy of the real Paula Deen recipe and realized what happened —her recipe calls for 2 cups of sugar for the cake, not 3, and 1 and 1/4 cup of oil. The Paula Deen cake shouldn’t have a hard crust— but if you take her name off your recipe and call it something like “crackly crust apple cake”, you definitely have a winner!!

yes I use the Jello