Apple Butter Layer Cake Recipes

APPLE BUTTER SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch pan.
• Prepare the topping by mixing together the brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and chopped pecans.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• Beat butter and sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy; add eggs one at a time, thoroughly beating each egg into the butter mixture before adding the next. Add apple butter, vanilla, and wheat germ or bran cereal. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with sour cream; mix well after each addition.
• Pour half the batter into the prepared pan; sprinkle with half of the topping. Pour remaining batter into pan and top with the rest of the topping.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes.

APPLE-BUTTER LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• Cake: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a 9-by-3-inch springform pan and line with parchment. Butter parchment. Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and 3/4 cup granulated sugar in a bowl. Whisk together butter, egg yolks, and milk in another bowl. Whisk flour mixture into yolk mixture until smooth.
• Beat egg whites with a mixer on high speed until frothy. Add cream of tartar and continue to beat until soft peaks form, about 3 minutes. Gradually add remaining 3/4 cup granulated sugar and beat until stiff, glossy peaks form, about 3 minutes. Whisk one-third of white mixture into yolk mixture. Gently but thoroughly fold in remaining white mixture.
• Spread batter in prepared pan. Bake until top of cake springs back when lightly touched, 50 to 55 minutes. Slide a paring knife around edge of cake to loosen; release cake from pan. Let cake cool 15 minutes on pan base on a wire rack. Invert cake onto wire rack; remove pan base and parchment. Turn cake top-side up onto rack and let cool completely.
• Assembly: With a serrated knife, split cake horizontally into 4 layers. Transfer bottom layer to a cake plate or platter. Spread with 1 cup apple butter. Add second layer; spread with 1 cup apple butter. Repeat with third layer and remaining 1 cup apple butter. Top with fourth cake layer, domed-side up. Filled cake can be stored in refrigerator up to overnight.
• Beat cream and confectioners' sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until soft peaks form, about 2 minutes. Dollop on top of cake. Sprinkle with cinnamon.

APPLE PEANUT BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line an 8x8x2-inch square baking pan with Reynolds® Parchment Paper*.
• Whisk together all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and allspice in a medium bowl. Set aside.
• Cream the sugar and butter with an electric mixer on medium speed in a medium bowl about 2 minutes or until light and fluffy. Add egg; beat to combine. Beat in applesauce and vanilla. Reduce speed to low and gradually add in the flour mixture. Stir in apple and the peanut butter pieces. Spread into prepared pan.
• Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and cool 5 minutes in the pan. Lift the cake out of the pan using the parchment paper. Place on a wire rack to cool completely. Using the parchment paper, transfer the cake to a cutting board.
• Drizzle with Peanut Butter Glaze. Allow cake to stand until glaze is set before slicing.
• Peanut Butter Glaze: In a small bowl, stir together 2/3 cups powdered sugar, 3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter, and 2 to 3 tablespoons milk to make a thick glaze of drizzling consistency.

APPLE BUTTER LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• CAKE:.
• Save the last 4 ingredients for the frosting.
• Stir together flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg. cloves,and cinnamon.
• Beat butter and sugar together until fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time.
• Combine buttermilk and applesauce.
• Add alternately with the flour mixture, mixing well after each addition.
• Pour into 2 greased and floured 9 inch round cake pans.
• Bake at 350* for 35-40 minute
• Remove from pans.
• Cool thoroghly on cake racks.
• Frost cooled cake with Creamy Vanilla Frosting.
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• FROSTING:.
• In a small bowl, Combine butter, milk, vanilla and sugar.(Last 4 ingredients of list).
• Mix until frosting is smooth and shiny.
• If Consistency is too thick.
• Add a few drops of milk.
• Frost cooled Applesauce Layer Cake.

APPLE BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• Cream together shortening and sugar.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time, beat until light and fluffy.
• Stir in 1 cup apple butter.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
• Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with sour milk.
• Turn into 2 greased and floured 9-inch cake pans.
• Bake at 350°F for 30 to 35 minutes.
• Cool throughly.
• Spread bottom layer of cake with 1/4 cup apple butter.
• Top with frosting.
• Cover with top cake layer.
• Frost top and sides with any marshmallow frosting.
• Swirl remaining apple butter on top for a marbled effect.

JOHN'S THREE-LAYER APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter three 8-inch-round cake pans; line bottoms with parchment paper. Butter, then flour paper and sides (tapping out excess); set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together butter, sugar, and eggs until well combined; fold in grated and diced apples. Add flour mixture; mix just until combined. Divide batter among prepared pans; smooth tops.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool cakes in pans 20 minutes, then invert onto wire racks; peel off parchment. Invert cakes again, and let cool completely on racks.
• Make buttercream: In a heatproof bowl set over (not in) a pan of simmering water, whisk together egg whites, sugar, and salt until sugar has dissolved; remove from heat. Using an electric mixer on medium, beat mixture until fluffy and cooled, about 15 minutes. Increase to high; beat until stiff peaks form. Reduce to medium-low; gradually add butter, beating until fully incorporated, about 3 to 5 minutes.
• Assemble cake: Place one layer on a serving plate; spread top with buttercream. Top with another layer; spread top with buttercream. Top with third layer; spread remaining buttercream over top and sides of cake. Refrigerate at least 1 hour (or up to 4 days). To serve, bring cake to room temperature; slice with a serrated knife.

THE ULTIMATE LAYERED APPLE CAKE RECIPE - (4.6/5)

Steps:

• 1.Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans. Place the raisins and water in a glass measuring cup and nuke until the water boils for a few seconds (~1 minute, total time). Set aside. 2.Preheat the oven to 325ºF. In a large mixing bowl, whisk the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Set aside. 3.Put the oil, sugar, and vanilla in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Beat until combined, then add eggs, beating until incorporated. The batter should be smooth and thick. On low speed, mix in the apples, raisins (strained, liquid reserved for another purpose), and lemon zest until everything appears to be fully distributed, ~30 seconds. Continuing on low speed, add the flour mixture, beating just until incorporated. Scrape the batter into the bowl that held the flour mixture. 4.Clean and dry the stand mixer bowl and fit it with the whisk attachment. Whip the egg whites to soft peaks. Fold them into the batter in 2 additions. Scrape the batter into the pans and level them with a spatula. Bake for about 35 minutes, or until: The tops of the cakes darken to the color of an well-toasted or even overly-toasted marshmallow. The sides of the cakes begin to pull away from the edge of the pan. A tester comes out clean 5.Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the pans. Once the cakes are stone cold, remove them from the pans and place them on flat plates or a cookie sheet. 6.To make the frosting, beat together the butter, brown sugar, and syrup until light and airy, ~3 minutes on speed 6. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the cream cheese and beat until the frosting is completely homogenized, ~1½ minutes, speed 4. Spread decidedly more than half the frosting over the top of the cake that will form the bottom layer and the remaining frosting over the other cake. Push the frosting very close to the edge of the cake, but stop short of getting there. Don't frost the sides. Place both cakes in the refrigerator and chill for 45 minutes. 7.Once chilled, stack the cakes on a cake plate. (Dust with confectioners' sugar.) Return the cake to the refrigerator[7] until it's time to serve. Serve the cake cold or at room temperature. Notes [1] Servings ... as a double layer. If you want to stretch it even further, consider leaving the cakes unstacked and serving them as two single layers. A one-eighth slice of a single layer is a small serving, but in no way paltry. The cake is filling enough to make that work for 16 total servings. [2] Olive Oil: A good, everyday olive oil works beautifully. Save your extra virgin for salad dressing and bread dipping. [3] Vanilla: I recommend my man-made, hand-made, ideologically-superior vanilla extract. You regular readers know how I feel about the that! [4] Room Temperature: The butter and cream cheese will come to room temperature in about the same amount of time that it takes for the finished apple cakes to cool. [5] Cold Butter: Don't try to cream a stick of cold butter with a cheap hand-held mixer. Oh, and in case you've ever wondered how well a hand-held mixer would work with only one working beater, the answer is "like crap." [6] Syrup: You're going to want to use real maple syrup for this cake, not Aunt Jemima. You can swap out as much as 2 Tbs of the syrup for reserved raisin liquid. You can usually find real maple syrup in tiny bottles (thankfully, because it's so expensive). I found a 3.4 ounce bottle (you could fly with it) of Archer Farms, and that was perfect. Yes, that's the Targé brand. Sorry, Aunt Jemima. [7] Refrigeration: To keep it from drying out while in the refrigerator, I place the cake in a tightly-sealed cake tote, which I then place into the fridge.