Apple Spice Cake
Gluten-Free Apple Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting. Yes please! Using Relative Foods brown sugar and cane sugar, this apple cake makes the perfect slice with a hot cup of apple cidar.
Ingredients
- 2 cups Diced apples
- 1 tbsp Relative Foods brown sugar
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
CAKE INGREDIENTS
- 2 cups All gluten-free purpose flour
- 2 tsp Baking powder
- ¾ tsp Salt
- ¾ tsp Ground nutmeg
- 1½ tsp Cinnamon
- 1 cup Vegetable oil (you can substitute butter)
- ½ cup Relative Foods brown sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla
FROSTING INGREDIENTS
- 8 ounces Cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup Butter, softened
- 1 cup Relative Foods brown sugar
- 1 cup Powdered sugar
- 1½ tsp Vanilla
- 1 tsp Pumpkin pie spice
- ½ cup Chopped walnuts (optional)
Instructions
CAKE INSTRUCTIONS
- Combine diced apples with 1 tbsp Relative Foods brown sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350F• Grease three 6" (or two 9”) cake rounds.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, spices, and salt and set aside
- In a separate mixing bowl, combine vegetable oil (or butter) and sugars. Beat until well combined, about 2 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time until thoroughly mixed, then add vanilla.
- Slowly fold in flour mixture then fold in apples.
- Spread batter evenly into prepared pans and bake for 35-45 mins or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Place cakes on wire rack to cool for 10 minutes then turn over and out onto wire rack to cool completely.
FROSTING INSTRUCTIONS
- In a large mixing bowl beat the cream cheese, butter, sugars, vanilla and pie spice until smooth, approx 5 minutes.
- Spread frosting between layers and over top and sides of cake.
- Gently press walnuts into frosting on top of the cake. Refrigerate leftovers