Apple Cake W/ Cream Cheese Frosting

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 4 granny smith apples, peeled and sliced
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 3 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 stir together first 4 ingredients in a large bowl until well blended.
• 2 combine flour and next 3 ingredients. add dry mixture to the butter mixture, stirring until blended. the mixture will be very thick.
• 3 stir in apple slices. it hardly seems like enough batter to coat the apples, but bakes up beautifully.
• 4 spread batter into greased 9x13 pan and bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
• 5 for the frosting, beat cream cheese and butter until creamy.
• 6 gradually add sugar and salt, beat well.
• 7 stir in vanilla and frost the cooled cake.