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Chunky Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Source of Recipe

Southern Living/Sept 2001


List of Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, melted
2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
4 Granny Smith apples, peeled & sliced (3 is more than enough)
1 cup chopped walnuts, toasted

--Cream Cheese Frosting--
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
3 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Chopped walnuts, toasted (optional)


Recipe

CAKE:
Stir together first 4 ingredients in a large bowl until blended. Combine flour & next 3 ingredients; add to butter mixture,stirring until blended. Stir in apple slices & 1 cup walnuts (I used pecan chips/pieces). Spread into a greased 13x9" pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Spread with Cream Cheese Frosting.

FROSTING:
Beat cream cheese & butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar & salt, beating until blended. Stir in vanilla. Yield: 1 2/3 cups.