Apple Butter Spice Cake

Submitted by Cookin-jo

"This cake is worth making apple butter for in itself but you could also use a thick applesauce. It's low in fat and delicious. If your apple butter contains some of the spices in this cake reduce the amount of spices accordingly."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 19
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1 cup apple butter
• 3⁄4 cup brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons canola oil or 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1⁄2 cup raisins
• 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
• 1 egg, beaten
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1⁄4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt

• For the glaze

• 1 cup icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 - 1 1⁄2 tablespoon hot water (or more)

directions

1. Combine flour, spices, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
2. Combine butter, apple butter, sugar and oil in large mixing bowl. Stir until smooth.
3. Add in the raisins, buttermilk, egg and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined.
4. Add the dry ingredients and stir until just combined.
5. Pour into a lightly sprayed or greased 9 x 13 inch baking pan and level the batter.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
7. Cool on rack 25 minutes or until just warm.
8. Combine glaze ingredients and whisk until smooth. Drizzle over warm cake or spread thinly and then let cake cool completely.

Reviews

[mar rox]

Cake texture is perfect, a light moist crumb, but too much allspice. Baked it in a 10” round pan, & looks just like the pic, except for the fresh apple pieces I added. A new "keeper".

 

[LARavenscroft]

Great cake and very easy too. I didn't read the recipe beforehand and missed the part about reducing the spices if your apple butter had spices in it - thought it was going to be way too spicy ~ but it wasn't ~ it was just right. This recipe converted to gluten free very well ~ I did add 2 T of ground flax seed to the batter (standard practice for me). The frosting is just right - any more would have made the cake way too sweet.

 

[Janet Green]

This year we had an overload of apples, so we made crock pot apple butter. Then I had so much of that I started looking for recipes with the apple butter as the ingredient. Made this for the first time today. It is the best cake I've had in ages!! Made it exactly as printed. The hubby and I both love it and I can't wait to make it for others this holiday season!! A real Keeper!

 

[Tina and Dave]

Excellent cake. Used home-made thick apple sauce, oh and natural yoghurt as I didn't have buttermilk. Delicious! Thanks for the recipe, one I will make again!

 

[Pamela]

Yummy! I was looking for recipes to use my new batch of <a href="/93886">Crockpot Apple Butter</a> and this recipe came up. This was a tasty and moist cake and everyone enjoyed it! Thanks for posting this recipe! :)