APPLE CREAM CHEESE BUNDT CAKE

Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake image

With fall upon us and the abundance of apples this is a good cake to bake - this is one of our favorite fall cakes in our house

Provided by Roberta Isaacson

Categories Cakes

Time 2h

Number Of Ingredients 29

Ingredients

cream cheese filling
1 - 8 ounce package cream cheese softened
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
CAKE
1 cup chopped pecans
3 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup(packed) brown sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice
3 eggs, lightly beaten
3/4 cup oil(canola, olive or vegetable)
3/4 cup applesauce(unsweetened)
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups peeled and finely chopped apples
PRALINE FROSTING
1/2 cup(packed) brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
3 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup roughly chopped pecans, for garnish

Steps:

1. Grease and flour a(14 cup) bundt pan and set aside
2. Prepare cream cheese filling - Beat the cream cheese, butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until blended and smooth. Add egg, flour and vanilla and beat until just combined. Set aside.
3. Prepare cake batter.
4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake pecans for 5 - 7 minutes until lightly toasted and fragrant.
5. Meanwhile, stir flour, both sugars, salt, baking soda and spices together in a large bowl. Stir in eggs, then oil, apple sauce and vanilla. Stir in apples and pecans.
6. Spoon 2/3's of the apple batter into the prepared pan, then spoon cream cheese filling over the apple mixture, leaving a 1 inch border around the edges of the pan. Spoon remaining apple batter over the cream cheese filling.
7. Bake cake at 350 degrees for 1 hour - 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a long wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool cake in the pan, on a wire rack for about 1 hour. Remove cake from pan and cool completely, about an additional hour.
8. When cake has cooled, prepare praline frosting. Combine brown sugar, butter and milk in saucepan and bring to a boil. Boil 1 minute
9. Remove pan from heat and add vanilla extract, then powdered sugar. Whisk together until totally combined. If needed, pour frosting through a fine strainer to remove any powdered sugar lumps. Cool frosting slightly(about 5 minutes) until it has begun to thicken slightly, but is still pourable. Pour over cake and garnish with pecans if desired and enjoy!!!!