Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
This delicious apple cake is a cinch to make. It's moist, packed full of apples, spiced with cinnamon, dotted with walnuts and topped with a cream cheese icing.
Ingredients
Makes: 1 20x30cm cake
- For the Cake
- 250g plain flour
- 400g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 115g butter, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 120g chopped walnuts
- 1 1/2 (395g) tins apple fruit filling, such as Hartley's
- For the Icing
- 240g icing sugar
- 115g butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 85g cream cheese
Method
Prep:30min ›
Cook:1hr ›
Extra time:3hr cooling ›
Ready in:4hr30min
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease and flour one 20x30cm or similar sized cake tin.
- Place flour, caster sugar, eggs, 115g butter, salt, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon, 1 teaspoon vanilla, walnuts and apple filling into a bowl and stir. Pour batter into prepared tin.
- Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour. Let cool.
- Meanwhile, make the icing. Beat together icing sugar, 115g butter, vanilla and cream cheese until fluffy. Spread icing on top of cooled cake.
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Reviews & ratings
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Reviews in English (59)
ive made this once and it was lovely. i was wondering if i could use ground almonds instead of flour for this recipe? - 24 Feb 2012
This was a very easy recipe to make and tastey as well. I took the advice of others and doubled the apples, which made it very thick, but good. Almost bread like. I omitted the nuts as no one at my house likes nuts. Was moist and the icing was good, not too sweet, as canned icing can be. Next time I would add more cinnamon and maybe more vanilla next time for extra flavor, but I would make again. - 01 Jul 2002 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
This was really tasty- but I wish someone would have mentioned how QUICKLY the cake browns on top. I kept taking it out because I thought it was going to burn on top, but apparently it's normal, because it tasted great. I will try it again, now that I know I don't have to watch it so closely. - 13 May 2004 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)