Apple Pound Cake

2 cups sugar
1 ½ cups oil
3 whole eggs, room temperature
3 cups flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
1 ½ tsps. vanilla
4 cups diced apples (Granny Smith or other firm apple)
(about 3 large apples)
1 cups pecans or walnuts
3/4 cup coconut

Mix sugar and oil in mixer bowl. Add eggs. Combine flour, salt, and soda and add to egg mixture. Add vanilla. Add apples, nuts and coconut and stir by hand. Pour into greased and floured tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour 5 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes.

This is a very delicious pound cake made by my friend Marie Jones.