Apple Pie Cake

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 cup all purpose flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

2 tbs. hot water

1 tsp. vanilla

3 cups apples, peeled, cored and diced small

1/2 cup pecans, chopped

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and beat until blended. Combine flour, salt and cinnamon and add to creamed mixture then add hot water and vanilla. Fold in apples and pecans by hand and spoon into greased 9" pie plate. Bake 45 minutes. Serve with Rum Butter Sauce. Opt: I double the recipe and bake in a 9 x 13 pan serve warm with butter pecan ice cream.

Rum Butter Sauce

Combine 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup butter, 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream. boil slowly 1 minute then add 1 tbs. rum.