Honey Apple Spice Mini Cakes
Light and tender with soft chunks of cooked apples sprinkled throughout.
Equipment
- 1 mini Bundt tin can also use a muffin tin
Ingredients
Cooked Spiced Apples
- 3 apples or 2 large apples
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp sugar
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
Honey Apple Spice Cakes
- 8 tbsp butter, plus 1 tbsp for greasing pan room temp
- ¼ cup dark brown sugar
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 egg room temp
- 1 tbsp heavy cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup cooked spiced apples (ingred. above)
- 1¼ cup flour, plus 1 tbsp for flouring pan
- ¾ tsp baking powder
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- ⅛ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- ⅛ tsp ground cloves
- ⅛ tsp allspice
- 1 tbsp powdered sugar, optional
Instructions
Cooked Spiced Apples
- Peel apples and dice into small chunks (roughly ½ in. pieces).Heat a large saucepan with a heavy bottom on medium heat and throw in the apples and lemon juice. Stir and cover on medium for about 3 minutes. Check to see it's not browning and stir. The goal is to soften the apples, not brown them.
- Lower the heat to low and cover and cook for an additional 10 minutes. Check to see apples have softened and turn heat off. Using a potato masher or large spoon, smash up the apples until you have a very chunky apple puree. Set aside.
Honey Apple Spice Cakes
- Heat oven to 350°. Grease a mini bundt tin (or muffin tin) with butter. If you're using a tin with grooves in it, use a pastry brush to make sure the butter gets in all the crevices. Sprinkle flour over the molds to ensure each one is lightly floured.
- Cream butter with the sugars until paler and fluffier. About 3 minutes.
- Add honey, heavy cream, egg and vanilla. Mix until combined.
- Add in ½ a cup of the prepared apple puree and mix until incorporated in batter.
- Add in the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda until the batter comes together (it will get thicker).
- Pour into prepared mold, until just below the surface line of the mini bundt mold (they will rise during baking).
- Bake for 16-18 minutes. Check doneness by inserting a knife or toothpick into the center of one (it should come out clean when ready).
- Let cool for 10 minutes and use a spoon to gently pop the bundts out on to a cooling rack. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.