Light Spiced Apple Coffee Cake

Submitted by Chris from Kansas

"This is an easy to make, great-tasting and low fat coffee cake. I clipped it from my local newspaper."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar, divided
• 1 3⁄4 teaspoons ground cinnamon, divided
• 3⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg, divided
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves, divided
• 2 medium sweet apples
• 2 cups buttermilk baking mix (such as Bisquick)
• 1 egg
• 3⁄4 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted

directions

1. Lightly grease an 8-inch square baking pan.
2. In a measuring cup, combine 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoons cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoons nutmeg and 1/8 teaspoons cloves.
3. Halve and core apples; peel one of the halves and finely chop; thinly slice remaining 3 apple halves.
4. In a large bowl, combine baking mix, remaining 1/4 cup sugar, remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon, remaining 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg and remaining 1/8 teaspoons cloves.
5. In a small bowl, combine egg, milk and butter; stir into dry ingredients, beating until combined, about 30 seconds (batter will be lumpy).
6. Stir in the chopped apple; spread batter in prepared pan.
7. Arrange appple slices over batter, overlapping slightly.
8. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, about 25 minutes.
9. Let cool on a wire rack.
10. Serve warm.

Reviews

[Kim S.]

This was very good. I was looking for a Saturday morning recipe that would take the place of something like a donut! This fit the bill. I used Heart Smart Bisquick, 1% milk with scant 1Tbl.lemon juice (to make "buttermilk"). **And, the directions don't tell you but the reserved sugar and spices (in step 2), I think go on top of the apples. Also, I used brown sugar in the part that went on top. I'm not even sure you needed 1/4 cup brown sugar...I think the next time I may reduce that a bit. I put my ingredients into "Calorie Count" and dividing the 8x8 pan in 9 pieces, I came up with 196 calories total fat 5.0 grams total fat, 8% of daily value. Truly making this a LIGHT recipe. Also, I'm pretty sure this baked for about 40 minutes.

 

[sstankis]

Whole family loved it. Will make it again.