Sticky toffee apple cake with cream cheese frosting

 

Ingredients

Plain flour -310 gm 

Baking soda - 1 tsp 

Baking powder - 2 tsp 

Salt -1/2 tsp

Pumpkin spice mix  

cinnamon - 2 tsp 

ground ginger - 1/4 tsp 

all spice - 1/2 tsp 

cloves - 1/4 tsp 

Nutmeg - 1/8 tsp 

Eggs – 4 large 

Granulated sugar - 100 gm 

Brown sugar - 200 gm 

Dates (Medjool dates) - 200 gm 

oil - 240 ml

Boiling water - 300 ml 

For Apple sauce 

2 apples 

water - 1/2 cup 

For Caramelised apple slices 

1 apple 

Butter - 1 tbs 

Brown sugar - 1 tbs 

Pecans - 100 gm (chopped)

Method 

Make dates puree

Place  Medjool dates in a saucepan, add some boiling water and cook it for about 10 mins until its soft and mushy. Let it cool. Puree it into a smooth puree in a blender.

Make apple sauce  

Peel, chop and cook two green apples (granny smith ) in half a cup of water until soft and puree it. 

Make caramelised apple slices – peel and chop apple into slices/cubes. In a pan melt butter and add chopped apples and sugar until sugar caramelises and coat apple slices. 

Make Cake

Mix flour, pumpkin spice mix, salt, baking soda, baking powder in a bowl. Sift it and keep it aside. 

Beat eggs and sugar for few minutes. 

Add oil, apple sauce and beat until just mixed. 

Add half of the sifted flour and gently fold in. 

Add dates puree, caramelised apple slices, chopped pecans and fold in. 

Finally add the rest of the sifted flour and fold in. 

Pour the batter into two 9 inch prepared cake tins and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree C for about 30 mins or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean. 

Cream cheese frosting 

Cream cheese – 250 gm 

Mascarpone cheese – 250 gm 

Double cream – 375 ml 

Icing sugar – 100 gm ( or as per your sweetness)

Vanilla extract – 1tsp 

 Method

Whisk cream cheese and mascarpone cheese until mixed. 

Add double cream, icing sugar and vanilla and whip until soft peaks are formed. Icing is ready to use. 

Assembling 

Sandwich the two cakes with cream cheese frosting , cover and frost the cake with rest of the icing and decorate as you like. 

Chill the cake until ready to serve . Enjoy !