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Cinamon swirl apple coffee cake


  • Author: Mansee
  • Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • Yield: 1 cake 1x

Description

A gussied up box mix cake, filled with apples and a swirl of cinnamon sugar. Perfect dessert, snack or, let's be honest, breakfast.


Ingredients

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  • 1 1/2 sticks (12 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 cup sour cream
  • 2 tablespoons heavy cream
  • 1 box yellow cake mix
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 2 cups peeled, shredded apple (about 2 medium apples, I used honeycrisp)
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a bundt pan.
  2. Using a stand or hand mixer, beat the butter on medium-high speed until it gets lighter and a little fluffy. It won't get as fluffy as when you cream butter and sugar together, but it's the same idea here.
  3. Add the eggs and sour cream and continue beating until smooth. Add heavy cream and mix again.
  4. Add cake mix, nutmeg, cloves and ginger and mix on low until just combined. A few little spots of flour are totally fine.
  5. Add apples and fold in until everything is mixed. Again, try not to overmix!
  6. Spread half of the batter into the pan, smoothing it into an even layer.
  7. Combine sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle evenly all over the batter.
  8. Add the remaining batter on top, dolloping it all over the first layer and then gently smoothing it out with a spatula so you don't totally disrupt the cinnamon sugar layer.
  9. Bake for 50-60 minutes, until a cake tester comes out with a few moist crumbs.
  10. Let cake cool in pan for 10-15 minutes, and then carefully use a butter knife to loosen cake from pan. Invert onto a wire cooling rack and let cool completely. This cake is best made the night before serving, but if it's day-of, at least let it cool for 4 hours before cutting!
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 60 minutes