This makes a delicious and impressive cake or dessert for the Yomtov table. You can serve it hot, cold or warm and can freeze it in advance but need to make the sauce to serve.

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• Preheat the oven to 180°C.
• Grease and line a 22 cm round loose-based cake tin.
• Beat eggs until foamy and gradually add the sugar. Blend in oil and vanilla.
• Combine flour, salt and baking powder and add to the egg mixture. Stir in the apples and pecans and bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until the cake is cooked.
• Cool in the tin on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn the cake onto a serving plate.
• For the sauce: combine all ingredients in a saucepan; boil for 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Slowly drizzle over warm cake.