Description

Take advantage of all of those wonderful fall apples with this delicious spice cake. It's the perfect fall dessert but you can enjoy it anytime.

Ingredients

• 2 T. butter, plus more for buttering the pan
• all-purpose flour, for dusting the pan
• 1 box spice cake mix, plus ingredients needed for batter as listed on box
• 5 Granny Smith apples, finely chopped, peeled if desired
• 1/4 c. sugar
• 1/4 c. brown sugar
• 1 T. cinnamon, plus more for dusting
• 1 t. ground nutmeg
• 1 T. cornstarch
• freshly squeezed juice of 1/2 lemon
• 1 1/4 c. jarred caramel, plus more for drizzling
• FROSTING:
• 16 oz. cream cheese, softened
• 8 T. butter, softened
• 2 1/4 c. powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 t. vanilla extract

Steps

1. Butter and flour a 9 x 13 inch baking pan or dish.
2. Prepare spice cake batter according to package directions; pour into prepared pan. Bake according to package directions. Cool 20 minutes.
3. While cake is cooling, prepare apple layer: