Recipes

Apple Spice Loaf Cake with Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting

By: The Local Palate
apple spice loaf featured
Image by Erik Meadows

This spiced loaf cake by Miller Union pastry chef Claudia Martinez pulls in fall flavors with cinnamon, ginger, apples, and a richly spiced cream cheese frosting. The result is a balance of tartness from the apples, robust and warming spices, and tangy cream cheese. The loaf cake recipe is straightforward enough to make during a weeknight evening, but you can use a piping bag to ice it for an eye-catching finish.

yields

1 loaf

    apple spiced loaf
  • 2 cups flour
  • 11⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 3⁄4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla paste or extract 2 cups apple puree
  • 3⁄4 cup oil
  • spiced cream cheese frosting
  • 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
  • 8 ounces cream cheese
  • 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
  • 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cardamom 1 teaspoon salt
  • Zest of 1 lemon
steps
  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a medium bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In bowl of a stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, stir together eggs, brown sugar, and vanilla until fluffy and combined.
  2. Stir together apple puree and oil; add to egg mixture on low speed. Add dry ingredients and continue mixing, run- ning a spatula around sides and bottom of bowl to make sure everything is fully incorporated.
  3. Spray an 11×7 loaf pan with cooking spray. Pour batter into pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.

Make the Cream Cheese Frosting

  1. In bowl of a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, combine all ingredients and mix until smooth.
  2. Spread on top of loaf.



  • Recipe By
    Pastry chef Claudia Martinez of Miller Union in Atlanta
  • Contributing City
    Atlanta

Leave a Reply

Be the first to comment.


The Wine Lover Issue

Subscribe

1 year for only $24.99

1 year
for only $24.99

Subscribe and Save 72%!

Suscribe Now
The Travel Issue