For your game day tailgate or homegate celebrations, serve these bacon-wrapped packages of goodness with a sweet teriyaki sauce. Add more teriyaki sauce to the serving for dipping.
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 50 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 1 Bundt cake |
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups apple cider
- 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening, or as needed
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 3 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon, divided
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup canola oil
- ½ cup whole buttermilk
- ¼ cup apple butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup white sugar, divided
- 1 medium Honeycrisp apple, peeled and grated
- ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted
Instructions
- Pour apple cider into a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Cook, without stirring, until reduced to about 1/2 cup, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
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- While cider reduces, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Generously rub shortening all over the inside of a 12-cup Bundt pan. Sprinkle some flour all over inside of pan over shortening and tap around to completely cover in flour. Tap out excess flour and set pan aside.
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- Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cloves, and 2 teaspoons of the cinnamon in a medium bowl.
- Whisk together eggs, brown sugar, oil, buttermilk, apple butter, vanilla, 2/3 cup of the granulated sugar, and reduced apple cider in a large bowl. Add half of flour mixture to egg mixture and stir to combine. Add remaining half of flour mixture and grated apple and stir until just incorporated, but some lumps still remain, and making sure apples are evenly incorporated (you may need to use a fork to separate apple pieces). Pour into the prepared pan.
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- Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 50 to 55 minutes. Cool cake in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove cake from pan to a wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.
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- Stir together remaining 1/3 cup granulated sugar and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon in a small bowl. Brush melted butter evenly over outside and center ring of cake. Sprinkle top and sides of cake with cinnamon-sugar.
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- Enjoy!
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- You could substitute Honeycrisp with really any apple. I used Smucker’s apple butter, but there are so many to choose from – use your favorite or even make your own homemade apple butter.
- Reducing the apple cider allows the apple flavor to really concentrate and intensify, meaning you can add less of it and add more of the other yummy wet ingredients like buttermilk, apple butter, oil, etc.
Reviews
I really like the cake, although it seemed a little dry. I would enjoy more apple flavor, too. Any suggestions? Thanks!
I made this cake for Sunday Brunch and everyone loved it! I’m only giving it 4 stars as I did make some changes to the recipe, nothing major just trying to make it a bit healthier. I changed the whole buttermilk to 2% milk (that’s all I had), instead of 1 cup canola oil I used a single serve pot of apple sauce plus some melted butter to make it up to 1 cup and I reduced the white sugar in the cake to just 1/4 cup. Reducing the sugar really let the flavor of apple and the spices shine through! Will definitely make again.