Apple Cake

We made this a few times in winter 2023, and it’s easy and tasty! Adapted from All Recipes.

Ingredients

• cooking spray

• 1 ½ cups white sugar

• ½ cup butter

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 6 ounces cream cheese, softened

• 2 eggs

• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

• ¼ teaspoon salt

• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

• ¼ cup white sugar

• 2 large baking apples, peeled and chopped

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray an 8-inch springform pan with cooking spray.
2. Beat 1 1/2 cups of sugar with butter, vanilla extract, and cream cheese in a bowl until soft and creamy; beat in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl.
3. In a separate small bowl, stir together cinnamon with 1/4 cup of sugar. Stir 2 tablespoons of cinnamon-sugar mixture into flour mixture; reserve the rest of cinnamon-sugar mixture.
4. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture to make a smooth batter, and mix in apples. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle the top of batter with reserved cinnamon-sugar mixture.
5. Bake in the preheated oven until cake pulls away slightly from the edges of the pan, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cool cake completely on a wire rack before removing the pan and slicing cake.

Notes

I’ve found that the cake is ready around the 1 hour mark, and 1 hour 15 minutes is too long.