Cinnamon Apple Cake (Hanukkah Cake)

This cinnamon apple cake (Hanukkah cake) is a moist cake made with cream cheese, studded with fresh apple chunks, and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 1 hr 15 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins
• Calories: 480 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 6 ounces cream cheese, softened
• cooking spray
• 2 large baking apples, peeled and chopped
• 0.5 cup butter
• 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
• 0.25 teaspoon salt
• 0.25 cup white sugar
• 1.5 cups white sugar
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat an 8-inch springform pan with cooking spray.

Step 2

Beat 1 1/2 cups sugar, cream cheese, butter, and vanilla extract together in a bowl with an electric mixer until soft and creamy; beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Step 3

Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Combine 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon in a small separate bowl. Stir 2 tablespoons cinnamon-sugar into flour mixture; reserve remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture.

Step 4

Stir flour mixture into cream cheese mixture until batter is smooth; stir in apples. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle batter with reserved cinnamon-sugar mixture.

Step 5

Bake in the preheated oven until cake slightly pulls away from edges of the pan, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cool cake completely on a wire rack before removing from the pan and slicing cake.