APPLE CRANBERRY SPICE CAKE RECIPE - (4.2/5)

Apple Cranberry Spice Cake Recipe - (4.2/5) image

Provided by á-4010

Number Of Ingredients 27

Cake
3 cups Flour
1 tbsp. Baking soda
1 tbsp. Cinnamon
1/4 tsp. Ground cloves
1/2 tsp. Ground nutmeg
1 tsp. Salt
5 Eggs
9 ozs. Vegetable oil
9 ozs. Buttermilk
3 cups Sugar
1 tbls. Vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups Pecans
2 cups Golden delicious apples, grated
1 cup Dried cranberries
Glaze
1 1/2 cups Sugar
1 tsp. Baking soda
6 ozs. Buttermilk
2 tbsp. Karo corn syrup
1 1/2 tsp. Vanilla extract
Icing
6 ozs. Butter, room temperature
12 ozs. Cream cheese
1 tsp. Orange extract
1 tsp. Orange zest
3 cups Powdered sugar

Steps:

Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt in a bowl. Set aside. In KitchenAid stand mixer bowl, beat eggs, oil, buttermilk, sugar and vanilla. Add dry ingredients, apples and cranberries. Mix on speed 2 for 1-2 minutes, until well combined. Divide into two greased 9" cake pans or a bundt pan and bake 30-35 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Glaze: Combine sugar, buttermilk, soda, butter and corn syrup in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Cook 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Prick warm cake with a bamboo skewer evenly over the surface every 2 inches. Slowly pour warm glaze over cake allowing the cake to soak up the glaze. Cool cake until glaze is fully absorbed, about 15 minutes. Remove pan and cool completely. Icing: In KitchenAid stand mixing bowl, whip butter and cream cheese on speed 7 until fluffy, scraping down bowl as needed. Add powdered sugar, orange extract and orange zest and mix on speed 1 for 1 minute. Mix on speed 3 for 2 minutes, until fluffy. Frost cake being sure to place icing between the layers of the 2 cakes.