Yummy

I made this last night. We ate it today at work. It is fabulous. It's a cake without tasting cake-like. That's good news for me because I don't especially like cake.

Caramel Apple Cake
1 pkg. yellow cake mix
1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Vanilla or French Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding
1 cup water
3 eggs (as directed on cake box)
1/3 cup oil
3 green apples, peeled, coarsely chopped
20 KRAFT Caramels -or- Caramel Topping sauce in a jar
3 Tbsp. milk (not needed if you use caramel topping)

HEAT oven to 350ºF. GREASE and flour 12-cup fluted tube pan or 10-inch tube pan. Beat cake mix, dry pudding mix, water, eggs and oil in large bowl with mixer on low speed until blended. Beat on high speed 2 min. Stir in apples. Pour into prepared pan. BAKE 50 min. to 1 hour or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan 15 min. Loosen cake from side of pan; invert onto wire rack. Gently remove pan. Cool cake completely. Transfer to plate.

MICROWAVE caramels and milk in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 min., stirring every 30 sec. until blended. Cool 10 min. or until slightly thickened. Drizzle over cake.
-OR-
MICROWAVE caramel topping in bowl, drizzle over cake immediately.

Makes 16 servings