Apple Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting
Recipes Cakes Desserts Holidays Quick and Easy Seasonal cooking
Description
It's apple time and time to make a special dessert. Make it for birthdays, holidays or just because you want a delicious cake.
Ingredients
Cake:
4 medium (1 1/2 lb.) Honeycrisp apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1 inch pieces
2 c. sugar
1/2 c. canola oil
2 large eggs, at room temperature
2 t. vanilla extract
2 c. all-purpose flour
1 T. pumpkin pie spice
2 t. baking powder
1 t. salt
1/2 c. buttermilk
1 1/2 c. chopped walnuts, toasted
Frosting:
8 oz. package cream cheese, softened
1/2 c. butter, softened
1 c. powdered sugar
1 c. packed brown sugar
1 1/2 t. vanilla extract
1 t. pumpkin pie spice
1 1/2 c. chopped walnuts, toasted
Directions
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Cake:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line bottoms of 2 greased 9 inch round baking pans with parchment paper; grease the parchment paper.
Place apples in a food processor; pulse until finely chopped.
In a large bowl, beat sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla until well blended.
In another bowl, whisk flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk; stir in apples and walnuts. Transfer to prepared baking pans.
Bake until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 35-40 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks; remove paper. Cool completely.
Frosting:
In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, butter, both sugars, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice until smooth.
Spread frosting between cooled cake layers and over top and sides of the cake. Gently press walnuts into the frosting on top of the cake.
16 servings.
Refrigerate any leftovers.