Buttery Apple Cake Food

BUTTERY APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Make the cake: Preheat oven to 325. Coat an 8-inch springform pan with cooking spray; dust with flour, tapping out excess. Place on a rimmed baking sheet. Spread apples in pan; set aside.
• Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, milk, oil, and eggs in a medium bowl until smooth. Pour over apples. Bake until set and pale golden brown, about 40 minutes.
• Make the topping: Stir together butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla in a small bowl. Remove cake from oven, and pour topping over cake. Bake until golden brown, about 25 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Remove sides of pan, and transfer cake to a serving plate. Serve slices drizzled with cream.

SPICED APPLE BUTTER COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• For the crumb topping: Put the flour, brown sugar, apple pie spice and salt in a small bowl and stir to combine. Add the butter and mix thoroughly with your fingers or a fork until all of the butter has been evenly distributed and incorporated into the flour. Form into small to medium clumps with your fingers.
• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter an 8-inch square cake pan.
• Whisk together the flour, apple pie spice, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.
• Beat together the butter and granulated sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla. Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the sour cream in 2 additions, beginning and ending with the flour. Beat until just incorporated.
• Spoon half of the cake batter (it will be very thick) into the prepared pan and smooth with an offset spatula. Dollop the apple butter on top and carefully smooth with the spatula. Spoon the remaining cake batter on top and smooth the top. Sprinkle on the crumb topping.
• Bake until the cake and topping are golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool in the pan 20 minutes, then invert onto a plate; invert back onto a rack to cool completely.

BUTTERY APPLE LOAF CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F Coat a 9 x 5 x 3-in. loaf pan with nonstick spray.
• Streusel: Stir ingredients in a medium bowl with a fork until crumbly. Set aside.
• Cake: Stir flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl until blended.
• Beat eggs in a medium bowl with a fork just to blend. Stir in butter and milk to combine. Add to flour mixture and fold with a rubber spatula just until dry ingredients are moistened. Spoon half the batter into prepared pan; spread to cover bottom. Sprinkle with 1/2 the apples and 1/2 the streusel. Spoon on remaining batter, spreading to cover. Sprinkle with 1/2 the streusel, the remaining apples and then the remaining streusel.
• Bake 1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes. Run a knife around sides; invert cake onto rack. Turn streusel side up and let cool completely.

APPLE BROWN BUTTER TART

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• For the crust: Combine the butter, flour, and salt in a food processor. Pulse until the mixture looks like Parmesan cheese. Drizzle in half the cold water and pulse until the mixture forms a rough ball, adding the remaining water if needed. Remove the dough from the food processor, form into a disk, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
• For the filling: In a small saucepan, melt the butter and cook it until it starts to brown and begins to smell like hazelnuts. Transfer the butter to the bowl of a stand mixer equipped with a paddle. Add the sugar and beat together on medium speed. Gradually add the flour. Once the flour has combined, add the eggs one at a time. Beat in the vanilla bean seeds.
• For the apples: In a large saute pan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the apples and sugar and cook until the apples start to soften, 6 to7 minutes. Pull the pan off the burner and add in the brandy. Return to the fire and flambe, if desired, or just let the alcohol burn off. Toss in the raisins.
• To assemble: Remove the dough from the fridge 15 minutes before ready to use, this will allow the dough to soften and come to room temperature.
• Dust a clean work surface with flour. Roll the dough out 1/8-inch thick and lay it in the tart pan with lots of overhang on the sides. Schmear half the filling into the bottom of the tart pan and top with the apple mixture. Fold the extra dough over the top of the apples. Brush the dough with the egg wash.
• Bake the tart in the oven until the top is golden brown and slightly crispy, 45 to 50 minutes.

JEWISH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.*Place a cake circle with a cut out for the tube pan in the bottom of the pan. This will make it easier to remove from the pan.

APPLE BUTTER SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Combine flour, spices, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
• Combine butter, apple butter, sugar and oil in large mixing bowl. Stir until smooth.
• Add in the raisins, buttermilk, egg and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined.
• Add the dry ingredients and stir until just combined.
• Pour into a lightly sprayed or greased 9 x 13 inch baking pan and level the batter.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• Cool on rack 25 minutes or until just warm.
• Combine glaze ingredients and whisk until smooth. Drizzle over warm cake or spread thinly and then let cake cool completely.

APPLE BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• Cream together shortening and sugar.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beat until light and fluffy.
• Stir in 1 cup apple butter.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
• Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with sour milk.
• Turn into 2 greased and floured 9-inch cake pans.
• Bake at 350°F for 30 to 35 minutes.
• Cool throughly.
• Spread bottom layer of cake with 1/4 cup apple butter.
• Top with frosting.
• Cover with top cake layer.
• Frost top and sides with any marshmallow frosting.
• Swirl remaining apple butter on top for a marbled effect.

APPLE-STUDDED BROWN BUTTER STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Butter the cake pan. Set aside.
• Make the topping: In a small bowl, stir together the brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Sprinkle the 3 tablespoons of butter cubes over the mixture and use your fingertips to work it in to form a crumbly topping. Chill in the refrigerator while you prepare the cake.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Make the cake: In a small pan, melt the butter over medium heat until it begins to turn a medium nut brown, 6 to 8 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool slightly. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugars, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices. In a medium bowl, beat the egg and egg yolk to blend. Whisk in the butter and buttermilk, then pour the liquid mixture into the flour mixture and stir just to combine. Fold in the apple cubes and pour the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle the topping over the cake and arrange the apple slices around the top, lightly pressing them into the topping. Bake until the top is golden brown and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 45 to 55 minutes. Set on a cooling rack for 20 minutes, then check to see if the sides of the cake are sticking to the pan in any spots. If so, use a thin knife to loosen them. Carefully remove the sides of pan, transfer to a platter, and serve warm or at room temperature.

MOM'S BUTTERY APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350º.
• Grease a 9" round baking dish with butter.
• In a large frying pan melt the butter. Add the apples and fry until tender, 5-10 minutes, over medium to medium-high heat, moving the apples around to be sure they are all coated in the butter and watching them so that they do not burn.
• While apples are frying, in a bowl stir together flour, salt and baking powder and spices.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together sugar, 2 whole eggs, 1 egg yolk, vanilla extract and lemon zest until creamy and well mixed.
• Stir apples with the melted butter into egg and sugar mixture and mix quickly so that the hot butter does not scramble the eggs.
• Once apples are covered, add the flour mixture and mix to coat apples.
• Spoon into 9" round buttered baking dish.
• Bake 30-35 minutes or until cake forms a brown crust on top.
• Let cool in pan for 5 minutes.
• Invert, then flip back over, apple-side-up, and let cool completely before serving.

BUTTERY APPLE CINNAMON CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees (set oven rack to second-lowest position).
• Prepare a 9-inch springform pan.
• In a bowl using an electric mixer beat the butter with 1-3/4 cups sugar, softened cream cheese and vanilla until smooth and well blended (about 3-4 minutes).
• Add in eggs; mix well until completely blended.
• In a small bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture just until blended.
• In a small bowl combine 1/3 cup white or light brown sugar with 3 teaspoons cinnamon.
• In another bowl mix together the chopped apples with 3 tablespoons of the cinnamon mixture, then stir the apple mixture into the batter.
• Transfer the batter into prepared baking dish or springform baking pan.
• Sprinkle the top of the batter with remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture.
• Bake for about 50-60 minutes (for springform pan) or until the cake test done.
• Cool cake completely in the pan, then remove to a wire rack.

BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 320 degrees F.
• Mix together sugar, flour, salt, soda, shortening and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on 2nd speed for 3 minutes. Then add whole eggs, buttermilk and vanilla to the mixture and beat again for 3 minutes on 2nd speed. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites and sugar into a meringue state. Then gently fold the meringue into the buttermilk mixture. Pour into 4 parchment lined sheet pans or 4 (4 by 13-inch) round cake pans. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center of the cake.