Apple Cake King Arthur Recipes

APPLE CAKE, KING ARTHUR

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Butter a 9 ½" to 10" (2" deep) cast-iron skillet; or a 9" square cake pan.
• Combine the apples with the brown sugar, apple juice concentrate (do not dilute), spices, and salt. Set aside.
• Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
• Mix the warm milk, egg, melted butter, and vanilla. Add to the flour mixture, stirring to combine. Pour into the prepared skillet.
• Spoon the apple mixture onto the batter. For the best appearance, make sure the apples are distributed a little more heavily towards the edges of the pan.
• Sprinkle with coarse sparkling sugar, if desired.
• Bake for about 50 to 60 minutes, till it's light brown and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Remove from the oven, and cool for about 5 minutes.
• Loosen the edges of the cake from the pan, and cool for another 20 minutes or so.

CARAMEL APPLE MINI CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Grease the wells of a pop up pan or 12 muffin cups.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and spices; set aside.
• Cream together the butter, and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, then mix in dry ingredients, vanilla, boiled cider or apple juice concentrate, thawed; and applesauce.
• Stir this mixture until evenly moistened and then fold in the apple and walnuts.
• Transfer the batter to prepared pan.
• Bake for 20-22 minutes or cake tester inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Cool the cakes for 15 minutes before turning out of the pan; cool complete before frosting.
• To prepare the frosting: Melt the butter, stir in the salt and the brown sugar, and corn syrup and cool, stirring until the sugar melts.
• Add the milk, bring to a rolling boil and pour into a mixing bowl to cool for 10 minutes.
• Stir in the sugar, vanilla and cinnamon; beat well. If the mixture appears too thin, add more powdered sugar.
• Spread on the cakes while frosting is still a little warm.

LEMON YEAST CAKE FROM KING ARTHUR

Steps:

• Grease a 10" tube pan.
• Cake:.
• Combine 3/4 cups flour, yeast, sugar and salt.
• Combine warm milk and melted butter, gradually add to flour mixture, mixing for 2 minutes.
• Add eggs, remaining 1 1/2 cups flour, and zest.
• Beat vigorously for 2 minutes.
• Spread dough evenly into pan.
• over, let rise for 1 hour.
• Towards the end of the cake's rising time, preheat oven to 375°F.
• Syrup:.
• Combine sugar and water in saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
• Simmer for about 10 minutes, until the syrup thickens.
• Add lemon juice and remove from heat.
• Bake cake for 22-25 minutes, until tester inserted into center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven.
• Brush half syrup over cake and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
• Turn out onto a rack set over parchment or a pan.
• Brush remaining syrup over newly exposed bottom crust.
• Turn cake right side up onto plate and cool completely.
• Serve with whipped cream and berries.

OLD-FASHIONED APPLE CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR FROSTING FROM KAF

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F Grease and flour a 9" x 13" pan.
• 2) To make the cake: Mix all of the ingredients except the apples and nuts in a large bowl.
• 3) Beat until well combined; the mixture will be very stiff, and may even be crumbly.
• 4) Add the apples and nuts, and mix until the apples release some of their juice and the stiff mixture becomes a thick batter, somewhere between cookie dough and brownie batter in consistency.
• 5) Spread the batter in the prepared pan, smoothing it with your wet fingers.
• 6) Bake the cake for 45 minutes, or until a cake tester or toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, or with just a few wet crumbs clinging to it.
• 7) Remove the cake from the oven and place it on a rack to cool completely; don't remove the cake from the pan.
• 8) To make the frosting: Melt the butter in a small pan over medium heat. Stir in the brown sugar and salt and cook, stirring, until the sugar melts.
• 9) Add the milk, bring to a boil, and pour into a mixing bowl to cool for 10 minutes.
• 10) After 10 minutes, stir in the confectioners' sugar and vanilla. Beat well; if the mixture appears too thin, add more confectioners' sugar. Spread on the cake while frosting is still warm.

APPLE CRUMBLE, KING ARTHUR

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Peel, core and slice the apples into 1/4-inch-thick pieces.
• Place them in a bowl with the remainder of the filling ingredients and stir vigorously to combine. In the process, the apple pieces will break into smaller bits; this is fine.
• Spoon the apple mixture into a lightly greased 9x9 cake pan, or a ceramic pan of similar capacity and surface area.
• TOPPING:.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, oats, salt, brown sugar, cinnamon and baking powder. Add the butter, cutting it in as you would when making piecrust.
• Mix until crumbly; if you work it too much the mixture will clump together, so use a light touch but be thorough.
• Sprinkle topping over the filling.
• Bake the crumble for 1-1/2 hours or until it's hot and bubbly and a deep, golden brown. Remove it from the oven and let it cool to lukewarm before serving.

FRESH APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spray tube pan with Baker's Joy (tm) or grease and flour pan.
• Place raisins in bourbon and micowave on High 25 seconds.
• Set aside to let raisins plump up.
• Put all dry ingredients into a bowl.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine egg and oil.
• Add sugar and apples.
• Mix well.
• Gradually add dry ingredients to make a batter.
• Then add nuts, vanulla, and the raisins with bourbon.
• Mix, but do not over-mix.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 1 1/2 hours or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
• Cool 10 minutes or so.
• Remove from tube pan and let cool completely.
• NOTE: You can substitute Bosc pears for the apples, if you like.

OLD FASHIONED APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, 2 cups sugar, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Make a well in the center and pour in the eggs, oil, orange juice and vanilla. Mix well. Stir in the chopped apple, nuts and coconut. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 75 to 90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Pour glaze over cake and let stand for 1 hour before turning out.
• To make the glaze: In a saucepan, combine butter, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda and 1/2 cup buttermilk. Bring to a rolling boil and pour over cake.