Glazed apple cider cake
 
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Moist apple cider cake topped with an apple cider glaze. Loaded with fresh apples and plenty of cinnamon, this cake is delicious for breakfast or dessert.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 9 servings
Ingredients
For the cake
  • 1 cup apple cider
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced
  • 4 Tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • ½ tsp. cinnamon
  • 2 Tbsp. granulated sugar
For the Glaze
  • 1 cup apple cider
  • 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
  • 1-2 tablespoons heavy cream
Instructions
  1. Place one cup of the cider in a small pan over medium heat. Bring to a boil and reduce to ¼ cup. Cool to room temperature. Once cooled, stir into the heavy cream and set aside.
  2. Preheat oven to 350F.
  3. Cream the butter and sugar together in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add the eggs one at a time and mix until combined. Add the vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
  4. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  5. Add ⅓ of the flour mixture to the egg mixture and mix until combined. Add half the cider-cream mixture. Follow with another third of the dry ingredients, then the remaining cream mixture. Finish with the rest of the flour mixture. Mix until smooth.
  6. Pour the batter into a buttered 8-inch square baking pan.
  7. Arrange the apples on top, pushing them slightly into the batter.
  8. Mix together the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and then sprinkle it on top of the cake.
  9. Bake for about 45-50 minutes or until a tester inserted near the center comes out clean.
  10. Cool to room temperature.
  11. While the cake cools, reduce the other cup of cider to about 2 tablespoons. Stir the confectioners sugar into the cider and add the cream to desired consistency. It should be thick, but thin enough to drizzle over the cake with a spoon.
  12. Drizzle the glaze over the cake.
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