Breads & Brunches, Sweets
Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake
It looks a little funny
because it is frozen. I baked it and froze it a few days ago and then
decided to share the recipe with you. And I had forgotten to take a
picture of the final product. It is from the September edition of
Southern Living. It is the cover recipe.
Cream Cheese Filling:
1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, room
temp
1/4 cup (1/2
stick) butter, room temp
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 large egg
2 Tbsp. flour
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Beat first 3 ingredients at medium
speed with an electric mixer until blended and smooth. Add egg, flour
and vanilla, beat just until blended and smooth.
Apple Cake Batter:
1 cup finely chopped pecans (reserve a
few for garnish)
3
cups flour
1 cup
sugar
1 cup firmly
packed light brown sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ground allspice
3 large eggs
3/4 cup canola or vegetable oil
3/4 cup apple sauce (2 individual
serving cups)
2
tsp. vanilla extract
3 cups peeled and chopped Gala apples (about 1 1/2 lbs)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake
pecans in a cookie sheet 8 to 10 minutes, stirring halfway through.
Stir together flour and next 7 ingredients (down to the the eggs). Add
eggs, oil, applesauce and vanilla. Stir just until dry ingredients are
moistened. Stir in chopped apples and pecans.
Spoon 2/3 of apple mixture into a
greased and floured Bundt pan. Spoon Cream Cheese filling over apple
mixture leaving a 1 inch border around edges of pan. Swirl filling
through apple mixture using a pairing knife. Spoon remaining apple
mixture over Cream Cheese Filling.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour to 1
hour 15 minutes, on oven rack that is in the upper part of the bottom
half of oven. (mine went 1 hour and 10 minutes). I tented it with
foil halfway through to keep from over browning.
Cool cake 15 minutes. Invert pan on
serving plate and remove cake from pan. Cool 2 hours.
Praline Frosting:
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick)
3 Tbsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup powdered sugar
*Last year you could find Duncan Hines
Caramel frosting at the store in a can. I looked for it and could not
find it. It is very good and would work well for this if you can find
it.
Enjoy!
