APPLE cIDER bUNDT cAKE

Here's a great apple cake recipe to add to your fall repertoire. Tender, moist and bursting with apple flavor, this cake makes a showy dessert. Perfect for a dinner party, potluck, office gathering or for a Tuesday night at home.

The recipe is slightly adapted from Tutti Dolci. If you haven't tried Laura's recipes, you should. Cake serves about 12 and is wonderful just as it is.

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INGREDIENTS

CAKE

• 2-1/2 cups flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon cloves
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 10 Tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1-1/4 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 cup apple cider
• 3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce, room temperature
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

TOPPING

• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

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DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350°F and spray a 10-cup bundt pan generously with nonstick spray. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
2. In your stand mixer fitted with SideSwipe, beat butter and sugar ion medium speed until pale and fluffy.
3. Reduce speed to low and add eggs one at a time.
4. Combine apple cider, applesauce, and vanilla in a small bowl. Set aside.
5. Add flour mixture into the creamed butter in three additions, alternating with apple cider mixture (begin and end with flour mixture), just until incorporated.
6. Spoon batter into prepared bundt pan and smooth top with a spatula or knife.
7. Tap pan sharply to reduce air bubbles.
8. Bake at 350 for 45 to 50 minutes, until cake is golden, springs back to the touch, and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few crumbs attached. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes; carefully invert onto rack.
9. Place rack with cake over a piece of wax paper. Combine sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Brush warm cake with melted butter and sprinkle generously with cinnamon-sugar. Let cake cool completely before serving. Store leftovers in an airtight container at room temperature up to 2 days.