Breakfast Apple Cake with a Crunchy Peanut Butter Frosting
This breakfast apple cake is light, sweet, full of fresh apples and spices. It makes the best coffee companion on those crisp fall mornings. Topped with a truly irresistible crunchy peanut butter frosting. An absolute crowd pleaser of all ages.
2cupsApples - peeled and diced into mini cubes3-4 small apples
Peanut Butter Frosting
1cupChunky Peanut Butter
½cupPowdered Sugar
1cupMilk - divided
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350F. Spray and dust your 9 inch cake pan with flour.
Peel and dice your apples and set aside.
In a bowl measure the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt, apple pie spice) whisk to combine and set aside.
1 ½ cups Flour, 2 tsp Baking Powder, ¼ tsp Salt, 2 tsp Apple Pie Spice
Using a mixer, cream together your butter and sugars. Add in your egg and vanilla extract. Mix until combined.
½ cup Butter (at room temperature) , ¼ cup Brown Sugar, ½ cup Sugar, 1 Egg, 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Divide your flour mixture into thirds and the milk into half. You will want to alternate folding in your flour and milk into the butter and sugar mixture, ending with flour. See blog notes for more explanation if needed.
½ cup Milk (at room temperature)
It will be thick when you're done.
Carefully fold in the diced apples, try not to over mix the batter.
2 cups Apples - peeled and diced into mini cubes
Pour into your prepared cake pan, spread around to be even.
Bake at 350F for 30-35 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Let it cool on a rack.
Peanut Butter Frosting
Once the cake is cool, make your frosting. Using a stand mixer with a whisk attachment, combine your crunchy peanut butter, powdered sugar and ½ cup of milk. Keep adding milk a tbsp at a time until the frosting is smooth and the perfect consistency, it may take the full 1 cup of milk.
1 cup Chunky Peanut Butter , ½ cup Powdered Sugar, 1 cup Milk - divided