17/10/2022
Apple Butter Pound Cake with Caramel Frosting
Impress everyone this fall with an apple butter pound cake topped with caramel frosting and apple chips.
By Pam Lolley
Active Time: 20 mins
Cool Time: 2 hrs
Total Time: 3 hrs 45 mins
Ingredients-
1 cup Slow-Cooker Apple Butter
¼ cup finely chopped, toasted pecans
Vegetable shortening
1 ½ cups butter, softened
1 (8-oz.) package cream cheese, softened
3 cups granulated sugar
6 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
3 teaspoons vanilla extract, divided
½ cup packed light brown sugar
¼ cup butter
3 tablespoons whole milk
1 cup powdered sugar
½ cup dried apple chips (optional)
Directions-
Stir together Slow-Cooker Apple Butter and pecans in a small bowl; set aside. Grease (with vegetable shortening) and flour a 14-cup Bundt pan; set aside.
Preheat oven to 325°F. Beat softened butter and cream cheese in bowl of a heavy-duty stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment on medium speed until creamy, about 2 minutes. Gradually add granulated sugar, beating on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
Reduce speed to low, and gradually add flour to butter mixture, beating just until blended after each addition, stopping to scrape down bowl as needed. Stir in 2 teaspoons of the vanilla.
Stir ¼ cup batter into apple butter mixture. Pour half of the remaining batter into prepared Bundt pan. Using a small offset spatula or knife, make about a ¾-inch-wide x ¾-inch-deep trench (or channel) in center of batter around pan. Spoon apple butter mixture into trench. Top with remaining cake batter.
Bake in preheated oven until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean (1 hour, 20 minutes to 1 hour, 35 minutes). Cool cake in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes, and remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 2 hours.
While cake cools, bring brown sugar, ¼ cup butter, and milk to a boil in a small saucepan over medium, whisking constantly. Boil, whisking constantly, 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir in remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla. Gradually whisk in powdered sugar until smooth, and whisk gently until mixture begins to cool and thickens slightly, 3 to 5 minutes. Immediately spoon over cooled cake; top with apple chips, if desired.
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