Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a tube pan or bundt pan.
Cake: Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and apple pie spice; blend well and add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk. Stir in vanilla. Batter will be thick.
Cinnamon Crumb Mixture: combine sugar, pecans, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture is crumbly; stir in chopped apples.
To bake: Pour 1/2 of the cake batter into the prepared pan; pour 1/2 of the crumb mixture on top. Top with remaining cake batter followed by the balance of the crumb mixture.
Bake at 350 F for 60 minutes, until cake tests done. Cool 5 minutes in pan, then cool on a wire rack before serving.
Cinnamon Apple Coffeecake
Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Total Time: 20 Minutes
Ingredients
Cake Batter:
3/4 C. firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 C. butter
3 eggs
3 C. all-purpose flour
3 tsp. Clabber Girl® Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. apple pie spice
1 C. buttermilk
1 tsp. Spice Islands® Pure Vanilla Extract
Cinnamon-crumb mixture:
1 C. firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 C. chopped pecans
1/4 C. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. Spice Islands® Ground Saigon Cinnamon
1/4 C. butter
1 C. Granny Smith apples, chopped
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a tube pan or bundt pan.
Cake: Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and apple pie spice; blend well and add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk. Stir in vanilla. Batter will be thick.
Cinnamon Crumb Mixture: combine sugar, pecans, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture is crumbly; stir in chopped apples.
To bake: Pour 1/2 of the cake batter into the prepared pan; pour 1/2 of the crumb mixture on top. Top with remaining cake batter followed by the balance of the crumb mixture.
Bake at 350 F for 60 minutes, until cake tests done. Cool 5 minutes in pan, then cool on a wire rack before serving.