How to Make Apple Spice Cake

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00:00There's no better way to celebrate fall than with a delicious apple cake. I'm

00:04Sarah with Taste of Home and I'm making a two-layered apple spice cake. It's

00:09chunky, it's got warm spices, toasted walnuts, and it's topped with a sweet

00:14and tangy brown sugar cream cheese frosting. It is so delicious and it's a

00:18great way to celebrate fall.

00:22If you love all these fall flavors but aren't in the mood for cake, that's okay.

00:30Make sure you check out our friends at Bustle. They put together a delicious

00:34recipe for handheld air-fried apple pies with brown sugar glaze. How delicious do

00:40these look? We're going to talk more about that after we make the cake. We'll get

00:44started with the apples. We have a pound and a half of Honeycrisp apples. Now you

00:49don't have to use Honeycrisp. Any other firm apple will do. You want it to hold

00:52up to baking so you could use Granny Smith or Fuji or Gala. Okay, I'm going to show

00:58you a really great way to cut apples for apple pies or desserts. So run your knife

01:03through almost half of the apple and then put the cut side down on the cutting

01:07board and then run your knife through the other sides and you'll leave the core

01:13and then you can cut the rest of the apple into rough one-inch pieces.

01:20All right, so we've got our apples cut and we're going to finish them in the food

01:27processor because we want them to be a little bit more finely chopped.

01:32I think that's about it. We're not making applesauce here, so I'm going to stop right

01:42there. Now apples are going to add a lot of sweetness and delicious flavor, a lot of

01:47texture and moisture to the cake. We're going to move on to the batter. We've got two

01:52cups of sugar and a little bit of canola oil. This is an oil-based cake. Two eggs. I always

02:03like to crack the eggs into a separate bowl and not right into the mixing bowl in case

02:08I get any shell in there. And a little bit of vanilla. So we'll blend this together for

02:13just a little bit. That looks good, nice and blended. And now we're going to mix our dry

02:24ingredients. Now, pumpkin pie spice is key in this recipe, of course. And if you don't

02:29have pumpkin pie spice, you can make your own. It's a combination of cinnamon and ginger

02:33and clove and allspice, perhaps. And you're going to whisk that together with the flour,

02:41the ovener, and some salt. All right. Now, we add this to the batter and we mix it alternately

02:52with the buttermilk. I like to turn it off when I'm adding the dry ingredients so I don't

03:00get a face full of flour. And we'll add more. And then I'm going to scrape it as well.

03:04All right. Looks like we're all blended. And now we're going to stir in the apples that we

03:16processed a little bit in the food processor and the walnuts. All right. Our batter is ready

03:34to go into the pans and it looks wonderful. The smell is amazing. We have prepared two nine-inch

03:43round baking pans. And I have some parchment in here with a little bit of butter underneath

03:48and on top. So these are ready to go. You don't need to flour these pans, which is great. We're

03:53going to do half in each pan.

04:04We're ready to pop these into the oven, 350 degrees for about 35 to 40 minutes or until

04:09that toothpick comes out clean. It's time for the brown sugar cream cheese frosting. My favorite part

04:15of the cake, we start with a brick cream cheese and a half cup of butter. Make sure that both

04:21of these are room temperature. And then we add the confectioner's sugar and some brown sugar. Now,

04:29I process this a little bit so it's a little bit more finely ground. Here's regular brown sugar

04:34so you can see the difference. It's not a big deal if you use regular. It's just going to be a

04:38little grittier in the icing. No worries. A little bit of vanilla extract. And again,

04:46we've got our pumpkin pie spice.

04:57Here's the finished brown sugar frosting. It looks creamy and delicious and we're ready to frost

05:02the cake layers. So what I've done here is a pretty sturdy tall drinking glass and I'm using

05:09kind of a large pastry bag. Fit it over the edge and then I'll fill that with the frosting.

05:15Okay, so here are the finished cake layers. We've let them cool and I have them each on a cardboard

05:36round and that's going to make it easier to work with the cakes and transfer them from the turntable

05:41to the cake platter. So you can see that these cakes are kind of craggy. The top is not smooth.

05:48It's bumpy and that's because of the nuts and the apples and that's okay. It's going to be a rustic,

05:53delicious, ball, beautiful, wonderful cake. Okay, we're ready to start with the frosting.

06:00I don't want to cut a whole lot off so start small and I'm going to go around the cake, soft frosting.

06:10It's okay if there are some spaces between the circles.

06:17All right, put that aside and I'm using a large offset spatula. So I hold it just like this

06:29and I keep it steady and then I move the turntable with my hand and that'll make sure we've got

06:36a nice level, even layer of frosting on the cake. As level as we can get on this bumpy, lumpy cake.

06:45Now for the top layer, I'm just going to gently take off the bottom round and the parchment paper.

06:56Working quickly, place that right on top. And here again, I'm just going to apply the frosting

07:05with the decorating bag. And notice I'm not using a decorating tip. I just cut the corner off and

07:13I'm just going to do it this way.

07:15There's plenty of frosting. It might not look like it at first, but there is a lot of frosting.

07:24You can do a thin layer on the sides. You can go thicker. I kind of like the look of a rustic cake.

07:32So I want to see some of the cake through the frosting.

07:44So I had the cake in the refrigerator just to firm up the frosting a little bit, about 15-20 minutes.

07:49And now I'm ready to add the finishing touches with the toasted walnuts.

07:54Now, again, I'm going to keep the frosting kind of like rustic, kind of naked cake-ish.

08:00And I'll add these toasted walnuts to the edge of the cake on top.

08:05You could also press them into the sides if you wanted.

08:07Now these are toasted walnuts, which we also use in the cake batter.

08:11And the toasted flavor adds so much depth. It's really a big, makes a big difference.

08:17So I'll sprinkle some of these on.

08:18And I'm doing this on our turntable before I transfer the cake to the finished platter.

08:29Also, I added a little bit of frosting into another pastry bag.

08:32And I have a star tip, and I'm going to add a little detail to the top of the cake.

08:36We'll see how this turns out. The frosting might be a little too warm.

08:39So now I'm going to move it from the turntable to the platter.

08:51And this is why it's great to have the cardboard round on the bottom.

08:54And there you have it. A gorgeous, delicious apple spice cake with brown sugar frosting.

09:16Now, don't forget to head over to Bustle.

09:17Taste of Home inspired Bustle with this recipe.

09:20And their shortcut version is air fried apple pies with brown sugar glaze.

09:25Another delicious recipe.

09:27So enjoy and happy fall, everyone.

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