Chunky Apple-Cinnamon Cake With Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Yields:
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1 (13x9-inch) cake
ingredients
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CAKE
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar (can use 1 cup white and 1 cup light brown sugar)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- 5 small granny smith apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 1 cup toasted walnuts, chopped
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FROSTING
- 1⁄2 cup butter (no subs!)
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons whipping cream
- 3 1⁄2 cups icing sugar
directions
- Set oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
- For the cake; in a large bowl using an electric mixer beat the butter with sugar, eggs and vanilla until well blended (about 4 minutes).
- In another bowl mix together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg until blended; add to the butter mixture and mix until combined.
- Add in chopped apples and walnuts; mix to combine.
- Spread the batter into prepared baking dish.
- Bake for about 45 minutes or until cake tests done.
- Cool completely before frosting.
- For the frosting; in a large bowl cream the butter with the cream cheese, vanilla and whipping cream until fluffy (about 2 minutes).
- Add in the icing sugar and beat until combined (adding in more icing sugar if needed to acheive desired texture).
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Reviews
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It was delicious, just not very cake-like. All that cinnamon, plus the cream cheese frosting, makes it seem much more like a cinnamon roll in flavor. If I were to make this again, I'd make the apples much less chunky, use less cinnamon, and modify a cake recipe (perhaps a carrot cake recipe) to make it into an actual cake sort of cake.