Applejack Bundt Cake
Ingredients
Brandied Apples:
- 3.5 ounces diced dried apples about 1.5 cups
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup applejack or apple brandy or calvados
Cake:
- 1-1/2 cups cooled melted butter
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup raisins
Sour Cream Glaze:
- 1-1/2 cups sifted confectioner's sugar
- 1/4 cup sour cream
Instructions
Prepare apples:
- Place apples in a saucepan with the water and applejack and simmer over low heat until water dissipates, about 10 minutes. Set aside.
Prepare cake:
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Prepare Bundt pan by spraying with Baker's release spray.
- Place cooled melted butter, eggs, and vanilla in an electric mixer and mix until smooth.
- Gradually add baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and flour, mixing into a smooth batter.
- Fold in chopped apples, walnuts and raisins.
- Spread batter evenly into the Bundt pan.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick tests clean without wet batter.
- Cool cake in pan 15 minutes, then turn out and finish cooling completely on a wire rack.
- When cake is cool, mix powdered sugar and sour cream until smooth and of drizzling consistency.
- Drizzle over cake and allow icing to set.
Notes
From the kitchen of palatablepastime.com