Apple Butter Cake with Vanilla Cinnamon Glaze (adapted from Baker's Royale)
Filling:
12 oz. cream cheese
1 egg, plus 1 egg yolk
1/2 cup apple butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon cloves
pinch salt
Apple Cake:
4 1/2 oz. apples, shredded (1 large apple, or 1 1/2 medium apples)
3 cups of flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup of sour cream
1/2 cup of apple butter
1 cup of unsalted butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla
Glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
2-3 Tb milk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease or butter a bundt or tube pan. Core and skin apples. Shred apples against the large hole side of a cheese box grater. Set aside.
Beat cream cheese until smooth and fluffy. Add egg and egg yolk, and beat until smooth again. Add in remaining ingredients, beat until well combined and smooth one more time. Set aside.
Sift together flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg and cloves. Set aside.
In a small bowl, whisk sour cream and apple butter together until well combined. Set aside. (So you have 3 extra bowls at this point!)
Beat butter until smooth. Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add in eggs one at time, beating until well incorporated after each. Slowly add the dry mixture in three batches, starting with dry mixture and alternating with the sour cream and apple butter mixture. Fold in shredded in apples.
Pour half of cake batter into prepared pan (batter is pretty thick). Pour cheesecake filling on top of cake batter. Dollop remaining cake batter onto cheesecake filling. Smooth together gently, don't worry that it may not cover the cheesecake batter completely.
Bake cake for 50-55 minutes or until inserted cake tester is clean of crumbs when removed. Let cool before icing.
Whisk powdered sugar and cinnamon together. Add vanilla, and beat in the milk, 1 Tb at a time, until it reaches desired consistency. Drizzle over cake (You might want to make a double batch, and drizzle more over as you serve!!)