My dad recently got a lot of apples, and I was wanting to make something with them. In our house, Macs reign!! While I was typing in recipes using apples in google, one of the options below in the search was, “recipes using apples and cream cheese.” We had half a block of cream cheese that had been open for a while and needed used up. So I clicked on it, and up pops this cream cheese, apple cake that looked MaGnIfIcenT!!!!
So, you know me…I made it healthy!! I swapped some ingredients, and BOY did it turn out Ahhhhmazing! I’m not saying that just because I made it either. If you wanted the full blown, chock full of sugar, you can find it at this link given. Just type in “Cream cheese, Apple Cake, and it should take you right to it!!
You can probably use any apple you want. Macs tend to be a softer, more tart apple. They get done faster and have a nice tartness that adds to your dish. Around here, we have apples galore come fall with all the orchards around, and even wild apple trees. Needless to say, we find a lot of things to make with them. From apple sauce, apple butter, and apple pie, to turnovers, cakes, and just plain eating them!! (Fresh off the tree of course)
Now I used Pecans (Pee-cons) for the topping, but you can use any nut you want. Also for the sweetener in the topping, I used Pure Maple Syrup from a local maker. If you want to purchase some, my friends at Shumake Sugar Shack have a website and make their own!
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Healthy, Cream Cheese, Apple Cake!!
Ingredients
Cake
- 3 Large Macintosh Apples (or preferred apples)
- 1 tbsp Fresh Lemon Juice (To toss with apples)
- 4 tbsp Pyure (Or preferred sweetener)
- 1/2 cup Butter (room temperature)
- 8 oz. Cream Cheese (1 Package)
- 2 Eggs (room temperature)
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 1&1/2 cup Spelt flour
- 2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
Cake Topping
- 1/3 cup Pure Maple Syrup
- 1 tbsp Ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 cup Chopped Pecans (Or preferred nut)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Place the baking rack in the middle of the oven. Greace a 9x13 pyrex dish with coconut oil, or olive oil.
- Peel, core, and chop the apples. Mix them with the lemon juice in a small bowl, making sure they're well coated.
- In your food processor or ninja, mix the cream cheese, pyure, butter, and Vanilla extract until smooth.
- In a medium bowl, combine the Spelt flour, salt, and baking powder until fully mixed. Pour the flour mixture into your processor with the cream cheese mixture, mixing until just combined.
- Stir in the chopped apples with a spoon.
- Pour the batter into the prepared 9x13 and level it out.
- In a small bowl, mix the maple syrup, pecans, and cinnamon until fully mixed. Pour this mixture over the cake a spread it out with your spatula. (It's alright if it doesn't completely cover the while cake.
- Bake for 50 minutes exactly and take it out of the oven to cool! (This makes the perfect moistness)
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.