Autumn Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Serves 14 & takes about 2 hours 50 minutes. This recipe came from Christi.
Ingredients
| Ingredients for Cake | |
|---|---|
| 2 - 1/4 Cup | all purpose flour |
| 1 tsp | baking powder |
| 1 tsp | baking soda |
| 1/2 tsp | salt |
| 2 - 1/2 tsp | ground cinnamon |
| 1 tsp | ground nutmeg |
| 1 tsp | ground ginger |
| 1/2 tsp | allspice |
| 1/4 tsp | ground cloves |
| 1 - 3/4 cups | packed light brown sugar |
| 3/4 cup | vegetable oil |
| 3/4 cup | unsweetened applesauce |
| 4 | large eggs |
| 2 tsp | vanilla extract |
| 1 cup | buttermilk |
| 1 cup | choped pecans (opt) |
| Ingredients for Frosting | |
|---|---|
| 12 oz | cream cheese (room temp) |
| 1/2 cup | unsalted butter (room temp) |
| 3 - 1/2 cups | powdered sugar |
| 1/2 tsp | vanilla extract |
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray two 9-inch round baking pans with non-stick backing spray then lightly dust with flour.
- In mixing bowl - whisk flour, baking powder, baking soada, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice and cloves for 20 seconds, set aside.
- Pour brown sugar into the bowl of an electric stand mixer. Break up brown sugar with fingertips until no clumps remain.
- Pour in vegetable oil and applesauce, set mixer with paddle attachment and blend until well combined (occasionally stop and scrape bowl throughout mixing process).
- Mix in eggs and vanilla.
- Add in 1/2 of the flour mixture on slow speed until combined, then blend in buttermilk, then add remaining 1/2 of the flour mixture and mix until well combined.
- Divide mixture evenly amoung two prepared baking pans. Bake in preheated oven until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, about 28 - 32 minutes.
- Allow to cool in pans about 5 - 10 minutes then run knife round the edge to ensure cake is loose and invert upside down onto a wire rack to cool.
- Cool completely then level tops of cakes as needed. Frost with cream cheese frosting, sprinkle pecans around edges if desired.
- For the frosting: In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment cream butter and cream cheese until smooth.
- Mix in powdered sugar and vanilla and mix until well blended. You can freeze the frowting in 5 minute increments, tehn mix again with stand mixer, then freeze another 5 and more as needed until it's a stiffer yet creamy consistency.