This straightforward Apple Butter Cake combines moist, tender cake with the easy flavors of cinnamon and apple butter right into a dessert that’s good for fall.

I like a heat buttermilk biscuit slathered with apple butter. This thick, wealthy sauce is like an intensely flavored cinnamon apple sauce. It’s a kind of issues I hated as a child, however simply love now. You’ll be able to usually discover apple butter within the grocery retailer with the jams and jellies or you possibly can make your individual within the gradual cooker with this straightforward recipe.
Now, likelihood is you’ve heard of including apple sauce to cake recipes to scale back the quantity of fats and to maintain the cake moist, however you are able to do the identical factor with apple butter as nicely. Utilizing apple butter offers you a stronger apple taste, too. In order that’s an added bonus.

That’s why this Apple Butter Cake is so scrumptious!
A easy butter cake is amped up with the addition of apple butter and a little bit additional cinnamon to create a young, moist cake that every one of our taste-testers simply liked!
On this case, the apple butter isn’t in there to loosen up the recipe as a result of we’re nonetheless going so as to add a cup of butter. No, right here the apple butter is there so as to add scrumptious taste and it helps to maintain the cake good and moist.
Prime it off with a easy cream cheese frosting (we snuck a little bit apple butter into that, too) to create a cake that’s good for fall!

If I’m being completely trustworthy, I believe I would even like this cake higher with out the frosting. It simply has such an incredible easy, clear taste that I actually love. However y’all know I like easy stuff. It’s how I’ve earned my nickname – the mayor of vanilla-town. 🤣
Regardless, it’s nice with the frosting, too. So I’ve included the recipe and y’all can resolve if you wish to add it or not.

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