
Apple-Spice Layer Cake recipe: Martha Stewart - Baking Handbook
Ingredients:
- 1 ¾ cups sugar
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
- ¼ ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ¼ cup honey
- 4 large eggs
- 1 ½ cups applesauce
- 1 cup apple chunks (optional)
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Into a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, allspice, ginger and nutmeg; set aside. In a small bowl, combine milk and vanilla; set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter, sugar and honey on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add eggs, one at a time, beating for 1 minute after each addition, until smooth.
- With mixer on low speed, add flour in three parts, alternating with the milk mixture and beginning and ending with flour; beat just combined after each, being careful not to overmix. Add applesauce; mix to combine, about 1 minute. Fold in apple chunks.
- Divide batter among two 9-inch pans. Bake, rotating pans halfway through, until cakes pull away from the sides of the pans and a cake tester comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Transfer pans to a wire rack to cool 20 minutes. Reinvert cakes and let them cool completely, top sides up.
Cream Cheese Frosting recipe: my own
Ingredients:
- 2 packages cream cheese, room temperature
- ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla, preferably clear vanilla
- 1 cup heavy cream
Instructions:
- Whip the heavy cream until firm peaks form; refrigerate.
- Beat the cream cheese on low speed until fluffy. Add confectioners’ sugar and vanilla and mix to combine. Fold in the heavy cream with a rubber spatula. Refrigerate at least 20 minutes before using.








11 comments:
That looks delicious..... I agree that there is nothing that says "fall" like apple in anything baked! How lucky are you to find apples in your back yard!? The crushed speculaas cookies are fun and were nicely done (do you have a secret for making such a nice well-done circle!?).
Thanks for sharing!
That's a high rating, I'm sold!
It looks absolutely delicious!
Those apple chunks look amazing. And your decoration on top of the cake is very pretty.
oh this is surely a must try. Looks so good!! Fall is in the air :)
Great idea to use the cookie crumbs to decorate! Seeing everyone's apple recipes is getting me excited for fall.
Wowser - that cake looks amazing!
I am very impressed with this cake! Firstly cause I am rather partial to apple in my cakes, and secondly because speculaas cookies frequent our home around Christmas time when our Dutch "Family" friends send us some, oooh they are my favourite, such an amazing flavour!
Can't go wrong with an apple dessert, especially in the fall. My apple cakes tend to come out more like bread but this is such a beautiful looking cake :).
This cake looks melt-in-your mouth amazing! YUM!! Perfect for Fall too. I'm going to have to make this ASAP :) Anything with apples is a winner
wow, that looks amazing, and the garnish idea is fabulous.
Amazing! I just made this cake today, and I have to say it is delectable. It is so smooth, moist and just delicious!
Also, for anyone wanting to make this cake, I took a few bites before I put the frosting on, and this could also be made into a bread using the same recipe (just maybe without the chunks). I will definitely be making a bread using this recipe as well.
Thanks!
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