Jess's Brown Butter Spiced Apple Cake
There is something forever comforting about an apple dessert, no matter what the finish. The addition of brown butter in this recipe makes it an absolute winner to warm you up this season.
12 people
35 minutes
15 minutes
Ingredients
- 4 - Apple
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 55 g Brown Sugar
- 80 g Butter
- 170 g Butter
- 175 g Caster Sugar
- 165 g Cream Cheese
- 1 - Fresh Egg
- 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 240 g Icing Sugar
- 250 g Plain Flour
- 1 pinch Salt
- 35 g chopped nuts
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Grease the cake tin and line with greaseproof paper.
- Slowly melt the butter in a saucepan until golden brown and then allow to cool.
- Add the melted butter to the sugar, egg and apple sauce in a large bowl and mix.
- In a separate large bowl, add the dry ingredients; flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Then combine and mix the wet and dry mixtures.
- Add the mixture to the cake tin and then bake for 30-35 mins and then leave on a rack to cool.
For the brown butter icing:
- Slowly melt the butter in a saucepan until golden brown and then chill for 1 hour. Once chilled, beat the butter with a mixer until light. Slowly sieve the icing sugar into the bowl, continually mixing until light and fluffy.
- Spread over the brown butter icing, once the apple cake is cooled and cut into slices to serve with a drizzle of caramel.
