Description
This homestyle Apple Walnut Cake with Cinnamon Cream-Cheese Frosting is subtly sweet and loaded with apples and walnuts. It comes together quickly and reminds us just how marvelous autumn baking is!
Ingredients
Scale
- Apple Walnut Cake
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable or canola oil
- 3 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 2 – 2 1/2 cups shelled walnuts, divided (1 1/2 cup coarsely chopped; the remaining left whole for decorating the top of the cake)
- 3 heaping cups of peeled, coarsely chopped SnapDragon® apples
- Cinnamon Cream-Cheese Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 6 Tbsp butter, room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 F and grease two 9-inch round cake pans. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar and oil until fully combined. It will be thick.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Add to the egg mixture and mix until well blended.
- Add coarsely chopped walnuts and apples and stir into batter until pieces are evenly distributed.
- Pour batter into the cake pans. Bake for 1 – 1 1/4 hours, or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let cakes rest for at least 10 minutes, then remove from pans and cool on a rack for at least 2 hours, until completely cooled.
- In the meantime, prepare frosting.
- In a medium mixing bowl, cream together cream cheese and butter.
- Add vanilla then slowly sift in confectioners’ sugar and cinnamon and continue beating until fully incorporated. Mixture should be smooth.
- When cake is cooled, frost center, top, and sides with frosting.
- Decorate the top with whole walnuts.
- Serve.