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Recipe Type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 10
This sinfully rich, apple intense cake combines four different flavors of apple in one recipe. Two kinds of apples, boiled cider, apple bourbon and apple butter. It's then topped with a gooey caramel apple bourbon sauce. Try to resist, we dare you.
Ingredients
- Caramel Apple Bourbon Sauce
- 2 medium apples, peeled, cored and cut into wedges
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
- 2 tbsp. boiled cider, or thawed apple juice concentrate
- 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1 oz. apple pie bourbon or regular bourbon whiskey, optional
- 1 tbsp. apple butter, optional
- Cake
- 3/4 c. vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp. apple butter, optional
- 1 tbsp. apple pie bourbon or bourbon whiskey, optional
- 1 c. light brown sugar, firmly packed
- 2 tbsp. boiled cider or thawed apple juice concentrate
- 2 lg. eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. ground ginger
- 1/8 tsp. ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 lg. granny smith or honey crisp apple, peeled, cored and chopped
- 3/4 c. chopped pecans, optional
- 1/8 tsp. ground cloves
- 1/2 c. store-bought caramel corn, optional
- 6-8 ea. dehydrated apple slices, optional
- 5-6 ea. mint sprigs, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease two 6″ round cake pans at least 2″ deep. Line the bottom with parchment, and grease the parchment. Place apple slices in a circle around the bottom of the pan.
- Prepare the caramel apple bourbon sauce by heating the butter, sugar, boiled cider, cinnamon, corn syrup and bourbon together over low heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Pour 1/3 cup of the syrup mixture into the prepared pan, and set the rest aside.
- To make the cake: Beat the oil, apple butter, bourbon, brown sugar, boiled cider, eggs, spices and salt together for 2 minutes at medium speed.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour and baking soda. Stir into the batter.
- Stir in the chopped apple and nuts until just blended.
- Divide batter into each pan by carefully spooning the batter over the apples. Cover them completely. Bake the cakes for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
- Remove the cake from the oven, and run a thin knife or spatula around the edge to loosen.
- Let cake cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then turn one cake out onto a serving plate, bottom side up. Scrape out any sauce that remains and spread it over the cake.
- Spread half of the reserved sauce over the cake on the plate, then top with the other cake, bottom side up. Pour remaining sauce over the top.
- Garnish with caramel corn, dried apples and mint sprigs if desired and serve.