Apple Cake with Cream-Cheese Frosting
(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)
Source: Better Homes and Gardens
Categories: Cakes - Frosting - Icing
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
- 4 cups diced peeled apples
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- Cream-cheese Frosting:
- 1 pkg. (3 oz.) cream cheese at room temperature
- 3 Tbsp. butter or margarine, softened
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
Directions
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Beat eggs until light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar, oil, and vanilla.
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Sift together next 5 ingredients and add to first mixture. Stir in apples and walnuts.
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Put in greased 13 × 9 × 2 inch and bake in preheated 350 degree oven about 45 minutes. let cool in pan on rack 10 to 15 minutes, then spread with frosting.
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to make frosting:
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Mix all ingredients together until smooth.