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Spiced Apple Cake with Orange Glaze is a fall must make dessert!
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Spiced Apple Cake with Orange Glaze

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 1 loaf (or 4 mini loaves)
Author Musselman's

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • ½ cup unsalted butter softened
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup buttermilk *
  • 1 cup Musselman's Apple Butter

Glaze:

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons orange juice
  • 1 tablespoon orange zest

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • In a medium bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs, mix until combined. Alternate adding flour mixture and buttermilk to butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix until just combined after each addition. Stir in apple butter.
  • Pour batter in a 9" x 5" loaf pan {or four 6" x 2 1/2" loaf pans}. Bake for 55 minutes {or 30 to 35 minutes for smaller pans}, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Glaze:

  • In a medium bowl, combine powdered sugar, orange juice and orange zest until smooth. Spread evenly over cake just after it comes out of oven. Let cake cool for 10 minutes.

Notes

*If you don't have buttermilk, combine 1/2 cup milk with 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice. Stir and let sit while you begin to prepare the cake batter.