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Legacy apple cake with brown sugar frosting: 2008 Apple dessert contest winner |
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Our four dessert contest judges tasted, sampled and tasted some more. They liked this the best. What do you think?
Cake ingredients
2 1/2 Cup white whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp (heaping) ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp (heaping) ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1 Cup unsalted butter
2 Cup packed light brown sugar
3 large eggs
1/4 Cup boiled cider
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 Cups peeled chopped apples
1 Cup chopped walnuts
- Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease and flour 2 nine inch cake pans.
- Whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and spices in a medium bowl and set aside.
- Cream together the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, stopping to scrape the sides of the bowl between eggs.
- Mix in the boiled cider and the vanilla.
- Mix in the dry ingredients, stirring until evenly moistened. Fold in the apples and walnuts.
- Divide the batter between the two pans.
- Bake until a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 30 – 35 minutes.
- Remove the cakes to a cake rack and cool completely.
Brown Sugar Frosting Ingredients
5 Tbsp unsalted butter
1/2 Cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3 Tbsp milk
1 1/2 Cups confectioners sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
- Melt the butter in a small pan over medium heat.
- Stir in the brown sugar and salt and cook, stirring until the sugar melts.
- Add the milk, bring to a boil and pour into a mixing bowl to cool for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, stir in the confectioners sugar and vanilla. Beat well. If the mixture appears too thin add more confectioners sugar.
- Spread on the cake while the frosting is still warm, it will firm up and be more difficult to spread once it cools.
Submitted by Julia Siegel and Maija Kubasek.
Slightly modified from King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking.
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