Apple Butter Spice Cake via All Recipes

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!  We enjoyed our too short trip to Cleveland, and I ate more food than I knew was possible.

My contribution for Thanksgiving dinner this year was dessert.  Instead of doing the traditional pumpkin pie, I thought I would do something with apple.  Apples are just such a fall flavor that I always feel badly they get neglected.

Apple Butter Spice Cake {originally here}

Ingredients:

• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup apple butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup whole bran cereal {or wheat germ}
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 eggs, beaten

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray or grease 9×13 pan.
2. Prepare the topping by mixing together the brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and chopped pecans.
3. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
4. Blend together butter and sugar; add eggs and beat well. Add apple butter, vanilla, wheat germ or bran cereal. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with sour cream; mix well after each addition.
5. Pour 1/2 batter into pan, sprinkle 1/2 the topping over top. Pour remaining batter and top with remaining topping.
6. Bake for 40 minutes.

Grade: A

Comments:  This recipe is DELICIOUS.  Especially when topped with Cool Whip and served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.  We were able to eat it the next morning as breakfast since the texture is almost like coffee cake.  I really have no complaints at all.  It would be a great dish to bring to a dinner party or pot luck.  It was very easy to make, and it cooked wonderfully!

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