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Apple Cider Fritter Cake

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This is the ultimate apple cake, filled with a cinnamon caramel sauce and topped with a cream cheese frosting.

Ingredients

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Apple Cider Fritter Cake:

  • 3 Granny Smith Apples, peeled, chopped into small pieces
  • 1/3 Cup packed Dark Brown Sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon Ground Cinnamon
  • 1 stick or 1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter
  • 2/3 Cup White Sugar
  • 2 Large Eggs
  • 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
  • 1 1/2 Cups Bread Flour (this can be made with AP Flour)
  • 1 3/4 Teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1/4 Cup Apple Cider
  • 1/4 Cup Milk

Cream Cheese Frosting

  • One package of cream cheese (usually 8 ounces)
  • 1/2 Cup Butter
  • 3 1/2–4 Cups of Confectioner’s Sugar (Add more for thickness)
  • 1 Tablespoon Vanilla (If you can find the clear vanilla-it won’t tint your frosting…but the real vanilla has a bean in it and it will be worth the trade off color vs. flavor)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350*
  2. Prepare a 9″ Springform Pan
  3. Peel and dice Granny Smith Apples into bite sized chunks.
  4. Mix Dark Brown Sugar and Cinnamon and set aside.
  5. In a mixer, cream butter and sugar together until light and creamy.
  6. Add eggs, one at a time.
  7. Add vanilla extract.
  8. Combine dry ingredients and add to butter mixture.
  9. Add Apple Cider and Milk to mixture and scrape down sides so all is incorporated.
  10. Pour approximately one half of the batter into the pan.
  11. Take one half of the apples, and press lightly into the cake batter.
  12. Sprinkle Half of the Brown Sugar Cinnamon mixture on top.
  13. Repeat. with remaining batter, apples and cinnamon mixture.
  14. Bake 40 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean.
  15. I put the frosting right on the hot cake and let it melt into a soft white glaze.

For Frosting:

  1. In a mixer, whip Cream together Cream Cheese and Butter until combined.
  2. Slowly incorporate confectioner’s sugar
  3. Add vanilla.

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