Cream Cheese Apple Cake
This delicious cake is made moist by adding cream cheese to the batter. It’s filled with the wonderful flavor of apples, cinnamon, brown sugar and pecans. Oh my gosh I couldn’t believe how good it was!
The cake is brimming with chopped apples that sit in a cake batter made with butter and cream cheese. The cake is very tender, moist and delicious! I used 3 large Cameo Apples which are crisp and firm. It may seem like 3 large apples is to many but please use all of them! You’ll love it!
The cinnamon, brown sugar and pecan topping is perfect for the cake! It adds sweetness and crunch ,it compliments the apples beautifully. I tossed the apples in lemon juice after I chopped them for two reasons.
First it keeps the apples from turning brown while you make the batter and two…lemon adds a wonderful flavor to apples just like it does to blueberries and other fruit. This is an outstanding cake that you can enjoy all year round, I hope you love it as much as we did! Enjoy!
Cream Cheese Apple Cake
Ingredients
- 3 large apples peeled use firm crisp apples, I used Cameo, cored and chopped
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice to toss chopped apples with
- 1 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 1- 8 ounce pkg cream cheese room temperature
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Topping
- 1/3 cup light brown sugar
- 3 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place baking rack in the middle of the oven. Grease a 13x9 inch baking pan with shortening.
- 1. Peel, core and chop 3 large firm crisp apples. Toss them in 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, set aside.
- 2. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the 1 3/4 cup of white sugar, butter, the cream cheese and vanilla until smooth. Add the eggs and beat until well combined and creamy.
- 3. Combine the flour,salt and baking powder in a small bowl, stir to combine. Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture, beat with an electric mixer until just combined. Add the chopped apples and fold them into the batter.
- 4. Pour the apple batter into the prepared 13x9 inch baking pan. Leveling the batter out as needed.
- 5. In a small bowl combine the light brown sugar, cinnamon and chopped pecans. Sprinkle over the apple batter in pan.
- 6. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 -60 minutes or until the cake tests done with a toothpick.
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Wow! I was so desperate to try this cake but did not want to have wheat …and i was short an apple and then got to the end and had no nuts 😣 , so i made it anyway without the topping and only 2 apples , replaced the sugar with xyletol , the flour i rep,aced with 1 cup almond flour , 25ml coconut flour and 100ml tapioca flour …… Wow ! Only thing i would change is a bit less xyletol/sugar 😁 awesomeness 🤣
Has anyone tried freezing the cake?
I made this cake today. It is so moist and creamy. The apples are perfect. The whole thing is absolutely delicious!
Another useless recipe where things turn out disappointing – I should have paid attention how few reviews it has. Description was so promising and result so disappointing
Maybe to you James but all the comments on the recipe are fantastic. Few coomments? Put your glasses on James.
This was so yummy. I cut it in half because I was using a smaller pan and it was for 2. I used 2 apples and halved the rest of ingredients. Didn’t have pecans so just used cinnamon and sugar and drizzled a little heavy cream over. So good when warm. Will definitely add to my Winter faves.
I made it for Christmas Day and it was a big hit! I thought it reminded me of a coffee cake . Very moist and delicious 😋