Recipe: Apple-Maple Cake with Maple Cream Frosting (13x9-inch)

APPLE-MAPLE CAKE WITH MAPLE CREAM FROSTING

1 1/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup real maple syrup
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup milk
3 cups finely chopped apples
Maple Cream Frosting (recipe follows)

Cream sugar and butter together. Mix in syrup. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Gradually add dry ingredients to sugar mixture alternately with milk; beat until well blended.

Stir in apples. Pour into a greased and floured 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

Bake in preheated 350 degrees F oven for 40 to 50 minutes. Set cake in pan on rack to cool.

Frost cooled cake with Maple Cream Frosting.

MAPLE CREAM FROSTING

1 pound powdered sugar
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, room temperature
1/3 cup butter, softened
3 tablespoons real maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix all ingredients together well. Spread on cooled cake.

Makes 1 (13x9-inch) cake
Adapted from source: Louise Myers, Marshall, IN
From: Dee, Ok - 08-09-97