Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

from ineskohl.info
Dessert
60 min
12 servings

Moist spiced apple cake topped with rich cream cheese frosting—easy, cozy, and perfect for fall gatherings or everyday treats.

Ingredients

  • 2 cupsflour
  • 1 ½ tspbaking soda
  • 1 tspbaking powder
  • 1 tspcinnamon
  • ½ tspnutmeg
  • ½ tspsalt
  • 2 largeeggs
  • 1 cupsugar
  • ½ cupbrown sugar
  • ½ cupvegetable oil
  • ¼ cupapplesauce (optional)
  • 1 tspvanilla
  • 2 ½ cupschopped apples
  • ½ cupchopped nuts (optional)
  • 8 ozcream cheese
  • ½ cupbutter
  • 2 ½ cupspowdered sugar
  • 1 tspvanilla
  • salt

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking pan.

  2. 2

    Whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.

  3. 3

    In another bowl, whisk eggs, sugars, oil, applesauce, and vanilla until smooth.

  4. 4

    Fold dry ingredients into wet mixture. Add apples and nuts.

  5. 5

    Pour batter into pan. Bake 35–40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

  6. 6

    Cool completely before frosting.

  7. 7

    Beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add vanilla and salt. Gradually mix in powdered sugar.

  8. 8

    Spread frosting over cooled cake and refrigerate until ready to serve.