Apple Dapple Cake with Warm Vanilla Cream Sauce

This cake recipe, Apple Dapple Cake with Warm Vanilla Cream Sauce, leans on eggs, vanilla and baking soda. It makes 12 Servings and takes about 60 minutes.

• Yield 12 Servings
• Ready in 60 minutes
• Prep 20 minutes
• Cook 40 minutes

Ingredients

Cake

• 8 tablespoons ( 113 g ) salted butter , softened to room temperature
• 1 ¼ cup ( 265 g ) granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups ( 284 g ) all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 4 cups peeled , cored and grated/shredded apple (about 5 large apples) plus any accumulated juice

Cream Sauce

• 4 tablespoons ( 57 g ) butter
• ½ cup whipping cream
• ½ cup ( 106 g ) granulated sugar
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9X13-inch baking pan and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until well-combined. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix until light and creamy.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add the dry ingredients to the wet batter and mix until just combined and a few dry streaks remain. The batter will be very stiff but will thin out after the apples are stirred in.
4. Stir in the grated apple with any accumulated juice and mix until combined. No need to overmix, just stir until the apples are incorporated.
5. Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan. Bake for about 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
6. For the cream sauce, while the cake is baking, combine the butter, cream and sugar in a small saucepan. Bring the mixture to a low simmer and stir until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture is combined. Simmer gently for 10 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat, stir in the vanilla and keep warm until ready to serve.
7. Cut the warm cake into pieces and drizzle with the warm cream sauce.

Cool the layers before you stack them.