Apple Butter Cake Recipes

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.

GRANNY'S APPLE BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• NOTE: You may adjust spices according to spices in apple butter if the butter is particularly strong flavored or extra light flavored.
• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Grease and flour a 13 x 9 inch baking pan or 3 coffee cans or 2 loaf pans.
• Into large bowl, measure all ingredients except raisins and nuts.
• With mixer at low speed, beat until well-mixed, constantly scraping bowl with spatula.
• Beat at high speed for 3 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl.
• Stir in raisins and nuts.
• Pour batter into pan or divide equally between coffee cans or loaf pans.
• Bake for 40 to 45 minutes (longer for coffee cans).
• Check for doneness by inserting toothpick in center until toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool cake in pan or on wire rack.

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.

EASY APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Grease or spray bottom only of 13x9-inch pan.
• In large bowl, beat dry cake mix, pie filling and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 2 minutes. Batter will be thick. Spread half of the batter in pan. Mix sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle half of the mixture over batter in pan. Spread remaining batter in pan; sprinkle with remaining sugar-cinnamon mixture.
• Bake 32 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean; cool completely. Serve with whipped topping. Store loosely covered.