Apple Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting
I am a healthy eater most of the time, but this apple spice cake is worth the splurge! Every year, I treasure the opportunity to make my own birthday cake, and I choose this. You can add a cup of raisins to the batter before baking if you'd like. —Jennifer Owen, Louisville, Kentucky
Ingredients
- 4 medium Honeycrisp apples, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces (about 1-1/2 pounds)
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1-1/2 cups chopped walnuts, toasted
- FROSTING:
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1-1/2 cups chopped walnuts, toasted
Reviews
Made this cake (and frosting) for our family Christmas dinner this year. It was excellent! I followed the recipe exactly like it is written. Remember to measure out (and toast) whole nuts BEFORE chopping or you will have way too many. It’s delicious and visually pleasing. Will definitely be making it again! Thank you for sharing this revipe!
Really good!! Made it for a potluck,making it again for my mother’s 80th birthday
The cake turned out to be very heavy, but was tasty. I love sweet frosting, but you could detect the granules of brown sugar when you ate it.
I gave this 1 star for the frosting. It was good but the cake was awful! Too much spice, apples and walnuts. My cake came out glued together like a pie and not cakelike like a cake is supposed to be. The flavor was not good at all. I spent hours in the kitchen to produce a cake that was very disappointing. It was also very expensive to make. I made this cake exactly as written AND I will not make this cake again even with adjustments.
I love making treats and bringing them to work to share. I have an apple tree with an abundance of apples, so I was looking for yummy apple desserts and found this recipe. To make it easier to share, I made cupcakes instead of the cake, and they turned out great! The comments from my co-workers were all amazing! I will definitely be making this again!!!!!
This was awesome! Just lowered amount of sugar and it was still excellent.
There are three reviews before mine, but I don't think any of those people actually made the cake and ate it! I made this cake five days ago for my husband and myself. There are only a couple of pieces left and they are still absolutely delicious. There is not too much sugar - it is cake after all! The brown sugar did not make the icing gritty. I don't know if it was the brown sugar or cream cheese, but the cake has been covered in the refrigerator and the frosting is still creamy. Most frostings get a hard shell on them after a few days, but not this one. I made the cake exactly as the recipe instructed - no variations. It is a beautiful and very delicious cake. For personal preference, next time I will make my own pumpkin pie spice blend with a little less nutmeg and probably leave the nuts off the top. They were delicious, but the cake is full of nuts and I just don't need the extra calories. I highly recommend this recipe.
4 cups of sugar...i dont think so...way too sweet!!
Seems like a lot of prep time but then the results look too good to waste any time preparing it in my kitchen! Sometimes the extra hours in the crock pot are worth waiting for!! YUM!
Just a question...will the frosting be gritty with a cup of brown sugar in it??