Winter Spice Cake with Caramelized Apple Topping
A decadent winter dessert featuring a moist spiced cake topped with caramelized Golden Delicious apples and drizzled with homemade caramel sauce. The cake is richly flavored with cinnamon, ginger, and allspice, complemented by a tender sour cream batter.
Ingredients
- •1 spray Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- •13 tablespoons unsalted butter
- •6 medium Golden Delicious apples
- •1¾ cups sugar
- •1 cup whipping cream
- •½ teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- •1¼ cups all purpose flour
- •1¼ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- •1 teaspoon baking powder
- •1 teaspoon ground ginger
- •½ teaspoon ground allspice
- •½ teaspoon salt
- •¼ teaspoon baking soda
- •2 large eggs
- •1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- •½ cup sour cream
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray bottom of 9-inch-diameter springform pan with nonstick spray. Line bottom with foil; spray foil. Wrap outside of pan with foil.
5 min
- 2.
Melt 3 tablespoons butter in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add apples; sprinkle with 1 tablespoon sugar. Sauté apples until almost tender and beginning to brown, about 6 minutes. Sprinkle with 3 tablespoons sugar. Increase heat to high and toss until sugar melts and apples are deep brown, about 4 minutes. Pour apple mixture onto large plate (do not clean skillet).
10 min
- 3.
Melt 4 tablespoons butter in same skillet over medium-high heat. Add 3/4 cup sugar and cook until mixture is deep golden brown, stirring often, about 7 minutes (mixture will be grainy). Add cream and vinegar (do not stir). Cover skillet, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer without stirring until most of caramel bits dissolve, about 8 minutes. Uncover and whisk until sauce is slightly thick, deep brown and reduced to generous 1 cup, about 3 minutes longer. Pour caramel sauce into small saucepan.
18 min
- 4.
Spread 3 tablespoons caramel sauce over bottom of prepared pan. Arrange apple wedges side by side, rounded side down, in caramel in 2 concentric circles. Sift flour and next 6 ingredients into bowl. Beat 6 tablespoons butter and 1 cup sugar in large bowl to blend (mixture will be grainy). Beat in eggs 1 at a time, then vanilla and 1/4 cup caramel sauce. Beat in half of dry ingredients, then sour cream, then remaining dry ingredients.
15 min
- 5.
Spoon batter evenly over apples. Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool cake in pan 5 minutes.
75 min
- 6.
Cut around cake; remove pan sides. Cool cake 15 minutes longer. Place platter atop cake; invert cake onto platter. Remove pan bottom and foil. Replace any dislodged apples. Rewarm remaining caramel sauce. Serve cake warm or at room temperature with sauce.
20 min
