Apple Pecan Bundt Cake
Recipe: #1957
November 03, 2011
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Tube/Bundt, Apple, Brunch, Christmas, Easter, Fathers Day Game/Sports Day, Mothers Day, Thanksgiving, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Flour, Kosher Dairy, more
"A wonderfully decedent cake filled with cream cheese and topped with praline frosting. From Southern Living magazine."
Ingredients
- CREAM CHEESE FILLING
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- CAKE BATTER
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- PRALINE FROSTING
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (240.2 g)
- Calories 744.9
- Total Fat - 32.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 10.4 g
- Cholesterol - 100.8 mg
- Sodium - 550.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 103.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.7 g
- Sugars - 74.1 g
- Protein - 13.1 g
- Calcium - 216 mg
- Iron - 1.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Prepare Filling.
Step 2
In a small bowl beat cream cheese, butter, and sugar until smooth.
Step 3
Add egg, flour, and vanilla. beat until just blended and set aside.
Step 4
Prepare Batter.
Step 5
In a 350* oven roast chopped pecans 8 to 10 minutes, until toasted and fragrant, stirring once. Set aside.
Step 6
In a large bowl, stir together flour and next 7 ingedients.
Step 7
Add eggs, oil, applesauce and vanilla, sirring until dry ingredients are just moistened.
Step 8
Stir in apples and toasted pecans.
Step 9
Spoon two thirds of cake mixture into a greased and floured bundt pan.
Step 10
Spoon cream cheese filling over cake mixture, leaving a border around edges of pan.
Step 11
Using a paring knife, swirl into cake.
Step 12
Cover filling with remaining batter.
Step 13
Bake at 350* for one hour or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
Step 14
Cool on wire rack for 15 minutes, remove from pan and let cake cool on rack completely (about 2 hours).
Step 15
Prepare Frosting.
Step 16
In a 2 quart saucepan over medium heat, bring brown sugar, butter and milk to a boil, whisking constantly. Boil 1 minute.
Step 17
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
Step 18
Gradually whisk in powdered sugar until smooth and stir gently 3-5 minutes or until mixture begins to cool and thicken slightly. Immediately pour over cooled cake.
Tips
No special items needed.