Cinnamon Apple Cake (AKA BG's birthday cake)
2 5/8 cups sugar divided
1 1/8 cups block style fat free cream cheese softened
3/4 butter softened
1 1/2 vanilla extract
3 large eggs
3 cups flour
3 baking powder
3/8 salt
3 cinnamon
4 1/2 chopped peeled Rome Apples ( 2 - 3 )

preheat oven 350 degrees

beat 2 1/4 cups sugar, all cream cheese, butter and vanilla at medium speed until well blended
add eggs 1 at a time beating well after each addition

in a different bowl
correctly measure flour, baking powder and salt
add flour mixture to sugar/butter mixture
beat at low speed until blended

combine 3/8 cup sugar and cinnamon

different bowl
combine 3 t cinnamon mixture with apples

stir apple mixture into batter

pour batter into 9x13 inch cake pan coated with cooking spray or a 9 inch springform pan
sprinkle with remaining cinnamon mixture
bake at 350 for 1hr 15min or until cake pulls away from sides of pan

cool cake completely on wire rack
cut using serrated knife
- posted by BG @ 9:56 AM