Cream cheese apple cake recipe. The smell of sweet apples and fragrant scents of cinnamon will waft throughout your house as this cream cheese apple cake bakes in the oven.
Everyone knows how brilliantly these flavours blend together to create the kitchen classic – apple pie. We want to bring a bit of a tasty twist, though. The addition of cream cheese adds a perfectly balanced tang to this dessert and gives it an extra bit of moisture for a soft, delectable mouthful every time.
Serve this cake while still warm and the cream cheese is soft and gooey, for a delicious dessert that will bring you a lot of toasty comforts. What’s more, it tastes just as good served cold with a nice cuppa!
15m prep
40m cook
8 servings
12 Ingredients
* 125g butter, at room temperature
* 100g (1/2 cup) caster sugar, plus extra 3 tsp for sprinkling
* 2 eggs
* 1 tsp vanilla extract
* 225g (1 1/2 cups) self-raising flour
* 75g (1/2 cup) plain flour
* 160ml (2/3 cup) milk
* 410g can Coles pink lady apples slices, drained, roughly chopped
* 410g can apples slices, drained, roughly chopped
Filling
* 250g cream cheese, chopped, at room temperature
* 70g (1/3 cup) caster sugar
* 1 tsp vanilla extract
5 Methods / Steps
Step 1
Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan forced. Grease a 22cm (base) springform pan and line the base with baking paper.
Step 2
To make the filling, use electric beaters to beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Set aside.
Step 3
Use clean beaters to beat the butter and sugar until pale and creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Sift the flours together. Fold in half the flour mixture, then half the milk. Fold through remaining flour mixture and remaining milk. Spoon 2/3 of the batter into the pan and smooth the surface.
Step 4
Dollop the cream cheese mixture over the batter and use the back of a spoon to spread into an even layer. Top with the apple. Spoon the remaining batter on top and spread out evenly. Sprinkle with combined extra caster sugar and cinnamon.
Step 5
Bake cake for 40 minutes or until risen and golden brown. Set aside in pan for 15 minutes. Turn onto a wire rack to cool. Serve.
source – cooking365coza