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    Published: Oct 10, 2022 ยท Modified: Oct 10, 2022 by Pate Giltner 11 Comments

    Perfect Apple Butter Pound Cake

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    This Apple butter pound cake with apple cider glaze is the ultimate fall bunt cake! It's full of incredible spiced apple flavor from the apple butter and is perfect for celebrating the season!

    This cream cheese apple pound cake is filled with homemade or store-bought apple butter and is topped with an apple cider glaze, making it full of all Autumn's best flavors!

    Apple Butter Pound cake on a marble slab with an apple glaze. Its then topped with dried apple slices and is on a brown stone background.
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    • Why you will love this recipe:
    • Key Ingredients:
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    • Perfect Apple Butter Pound Cake

    Why you will love this recipe:

    Apple butter is a fall staple and my favorite condiment once Autumn hits; it's made from apples, spices, and sweeteners. Its tastes exactly what I think a fall harvest tastes like. This recipe is great with both store-bought butter or this stovetop bourbon apple butter recipe.

    This pound cake with apple butter is made with cream cheese, making it extremely moist, a bit tangy, and totally delightful. But even though it's made with cream cheese and it's a pound cake, it's not overly dense. It has just a touch of baking powder, which gives the bunt cake a little additional rise and helps create a lighter crumb.

    Pound cakes are one of my favorite cakes to make because they are so easy, flavorful, and beautiful. If pound cakes are also your thing, this strawberry pound cake, and lemon poppyseed pound cake are equally amazing. 

    Key Ingredients:

    Self Rising Flour:ย a low-protein self-rising flour like White Lily or Weisenberger Mills gives this pound cake a tender crumb and a slight rise.ย White Lilyย andย Weisenberger Millsย flour are more similar to cake flour than regular all-purpose flour because of their low protein content. This kind of flour makes a lighter crumb, which is very beneficial in a denser cake like a pound cake. Self-rising flour is also beneficial because it already has rising agents and salt blended into it.ย 

    Butter: butter provides flavor and structure to the cake; there is one stick of butter for each cup of flour, as is traditional for pound cakes.

    Cream Cheese: cream cheese adds moisture, texture, and a tangy flavor to the cake. This is a very moist crumb, and the cream cheese help give its moistness. 

    Apple Butter: apple butter is made by cooking down apples in spices and a little sweetener. For this recipe, I use this bourbon apple butter which is made with apple cider, bourbon, brown sugar, and maple syrup but store-bought apple butter works as well!

    Eggs:ย eggs traditionally give these cakes their rise; there is enough air whipped into them to cause them to rise. This recipe also gets its rising help from the baking soda and powder in the flour.ย 

    See recipe card for quantities.

    Step by step instructions:

    A mixing bowl full of beaten sugar, butter, and cream cheese with one egg yolk sitting in the middle.

    Beat the butter and cream cheese until fully blended.ย Add in the sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Then add in the eggs, one at a time beating after each addition.

    Apple butter sitting on top of cake batter in a mixing bowl.

    Mix in the vanilla and apple butter.

    The flour sitting on top of the mixed batter.

    Slowly add in the flour and beat on low until it's all been incorporated.ย 

    The cake batter in a bunt an sitting on a brown stone table.

    Add to a well-greased bunt mold (at least 10 cup capacity), and tap on the counter to remove any air bubbles.ย 

    The baked bunt cake cooling on a rack.

    Bake for 1 hour and 15 - 20 minutes or until the top is browned and a knife comes out clean.ย 

    The glaze in a cream mixing bowl.

    Make the glaze by whisking the apple cider and powdered sugar until no lumps remain.ย Then pour over the cooled cake.ย 

    Tips for success:

    • To get your butter and cream cheese to room temp, place them into a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds. 
    • Beat the sugar into the cream cheese and butter until lots of air is incorporated. About three-plus minutes. 
    • Slowly add in the flour; it will go everywhere if you try to add it in all at once. 
    • Tap the bunt pan on the counter to get the air bubbles out of the batter. 
    • Let the cake cool in the bunt pan for 10-15 minutes, and then turn out to fully cool.

    FAQ

    How is the recipe best stored?

    This cake will keep for up to three days in an air-tight container.

    Can I use all-purpose flour?

    Yes, the cake will be denser, and you will need to add 1 ยฝ teaspoons of baking powder and ยผ teaspoon of salt for each cup of flour. But using White Lily self-rising flour or pastry flour combined with the mentioned baking powder and salt will give you the best results.

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    Apple Butter Pound cake on a marble slab with an apple glaze. Its then topped with dried apple slices and is on a brown stone background.

    Perfect Apple Butter Pound Cake

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    • Author: Pate Giltner
    • Prep Time: 10 minutes
    • Cook Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
    • Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
    • Yield: 1 10 cup pound cake 1x
    • Category: Pound Cake
    • Method: Baking
    • Cuisine: American
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    Description

    This Apple butter pound cake with apple cider glaze is the ultimate fall bunt cake! It's full of incredible spiced apple flavor from the apple butter and is perfect for celebrating the season!


    Ingredients

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    For the cake:

    • 1 ยฝ cups butter (three sticks)
    • 8 ounces cream cheese
    • 2 ยฝ cups sugar
    • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    • 6 eggs
    • 3 cups self-rising flour
    • 1 ยผ cup apple butter

    For the glaze:

    • 3 cups powdered sugar
    • ยผ cup Spiced Apple Cider

    Instructions

    1. Allow the butter and cream cheese to come to room temperature and preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
    2. Beat the butter and cream cheese until fully blended.
    3. Add in the sugar and beat until light and fluffyโ€”about three minutes.
    4. Add in the eggs, one at a time beating after each addition.
    5. Add in the vanilla and apple butter, mix to combine.
    6. Slowly add in the flour and beat on low until it's all been incorporated.
    7. Add to a well-greased bunt mold (at least 10 cup capacity), and tap on the counter to remove any air bubbles.
    8. Bake for 1 hour and 15 - 20 minutes or until the top is browned and a knife comes out clean.
    9. Let the cake cool in the bunt pan for 15 minutes, and then turn out to fully cool.
    10. Make the glaze by whisking the powdered sugar with apple cider. Stir until no lumps remain.
    11. Let the cake cool, then pour the glaze on top of the cake.

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    Comments

    1. Elizabeth says

      October 10, 2022 at 8:46 pm

      This was so wonderfully spiced!

      Reply
    2. Anita says

      October 11, 2022 at 3:40 pm

      This is such a beautiful cake, Pate!! Three cheers for ALL the apple butter recipes!! xo - Anita

      Reply
      • Pate Giltner says

        October 12, 2022 at 5:34 pm

        Thanks so much Anita!!!

        Reply
    3. Pam Wallace says

      November 20, 2022 at 8:00 pm

      Can you use any type self rise flour or only white lily?

      Reply
      • Pate Giltner says

        November 21, 2022 at 9:25 am

        Any low protein self rising flour (like White Lily or Weisenberger Mills) at around 9% protein works. If you can't find self-rising flour with low protein, use pastry flour instead (which is usually about 8% protein) and add 1 ยฝ teaspoons of baking powder and ยผ teaspoon of salt for each cup of flour.

        Reply
    4. Catrine says

      November 26, 2022 at 5:51 am

      Hi

      You have written Make the glaze by whisking the powdered sugar with the blackberry puree and bourbon.ยป but there is no mentioning of neither blackberry puree or bourbon in the ingredients list. It just says powdered sugar and apple cider. Hopefully that is correct ๐Ÿ˜Š

      Reply
      • Pate Giltner says

        November 26, 2022 at 2:16 pm

        Hi Catrine! Thanks so much, just apple cider and powdered sugar is correct! Thanks so much for letting me know and I have updated the recipe ๐Ÿ˜„

        Reply
        • Catrine says

          December 02, 2022 at 12:58 pm

          The cake turned out really well! Very yummy! ๐Ÿ˜Š

          Reply
    5. Terri says

      October 11, 2023 at 12:34 pm

      This was such a lovely and easy cake!

      Reply
    6. Sarah says

      October 20, 2023 at 9:44 pm

      Made it vegan by using vegan cream cheese, plant based butter and just egg and turned out delicious!

      Reply
      • Pate Giltner says

        October 22, 2023 at 12:59 pm

        Yay! Im so glad you liked it!

        Reply

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