HEAVENLY SPICED CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Cream together butter and sugar, brown sugar until smooth.
• Add eggs and vanilla, blend for 1 minute.
• Stir all dry ingredients together.
• Alternate adding scoops of dry ingredients and buttermilk to the creamed mixture while beating until all ingredients are combined.
• Blend until there are no lumps.
• Pour into two 9 inch rounds and bake for~40 minutes, or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.
• Allow cakes to cool.
• If you wish to stack the cakes you should cut the rounded tops off with a bread knife once they have cooled so that they will stack flat, save the removed portion for apple filling.
• To make fried apple filling, scoop a trough into the top of the first cake layer for the apple filling, about 1 inch deep but leave the edges to form a shallow dish or basin in the cake.
• Save the crumbs from this procedure.
• Peel and core 2 baking apples.
• Chop apples and put into a skillet along with 3 T butter, about 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon.
• Heat on medium heat, stir occasionally to prevent burning but allow the apples to brown slightly (this turns the sugars to caramel).
• Once the apples have stopped sweating and are caramelized, add the juice from 1/2 lemon or lime and 1/4 cup of apple juice.
• Remove from heat.
• Add the cake crumbs until all liquid has been absorbed.
• Spoon this into the shallow trough on the cake and place the second cake on top.
• To make frosting, ceam butter and cheese together.
• Blend in vanilla and add sugar.
• Once sugar is incorporated turn mixer to high and whip until light and creamy.
• Frost the top and sides of the cake, sprinkle with additional cinnamon or nutmeg if desired.