Best Jewish Apple Cake
From bluebell17 17 years ago
- 75 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This is a holiday favorite! A new twist on an old Jewish grandmothers recipe....My family requests at least 3 of these during the holidays! One of my favorites!!!
Ingredients
- 1 & 3/4 cups sugar, divided shopping list
- 3/4 stick butter, softened shopping list
- 8 ounces reduced or low fat cream cheese, softened shopping list
- 2 large eggs shopping list
- 1 & 1/2 cups all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1 & 1/2 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon shopping list
- 2 large ROME apples shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Beat 1/2 cup sugar, butter, vanilla and cream cheese @ medium speed for 4 minutes
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition
- Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl and mix
- Add flour mixture to cream mix beating at a low speed until blended
- In small bowl, combine 1/4 cups sugar and cinnamon
- Peel and chop apples and place in a med bowl
- Add 3 Tablespoons of cinnamon-sugar mix to apples and mix until they are covered completely
- Stir apples into batter
- Pour batter into an 8" springform pan coated with cooking spray
- Sprinkle remaining cinnamon-sugar on top of cake batter
- Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until cake pulls away from both sides of the pan and the center is set
- Cool on wire rack and slice a knife around the edge of the pan where cake pulled away
- Cut with serrated knife, serve & enjoy!!!!
- (If using 9" pan reduce cooking time by 5-7 minutes, depending on oven)
The Rating
Reviewed by 5 people-
Mmmmm, I love apple cake and the addition of cream cheese is very appealing. Thank you for this "5" fork recipe.
lor
in Toronto loved it
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mmm...sounds delicious
magali777
in Mexico loved it
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this is superb - just finished a bowl of this. made with my 'Stirling Castle' apples (cooker- eater). Added about 1/4 cup less sugar than stated. Baked in a rayburn oven heated with wood.
glennmstr
in Stoke-on-Trent loved it
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