Cinnamon-apple Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar, divided
• 3/4 cup block-style fat free cream cheese, softened
• 1/3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 3 cups chopped peeled rome apples (about 2 large)
• cooking spray

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 beat 1 1/2cups sugar, cream cheese, butter and vanilla at medium speed until well-blended (about 4 minutes.).
• 3 add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition; set aside.
• 4 lightly spoon flour into measuring cup, level with a knife.
• 5 combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
• 6 add flour mixture to cream cheese mixture; beat at low speed until blended.
• 7 combine 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon.
• 8 combine 2 tbsp of the cinnamon mixture and apple in a large bowl, mix well.
• 9 stir apples into batter.
• 10 pour batter into an 8-inch springform pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
• 11 sprinkle remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture over cake batter.
• 12 bake at 350°f for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until cake pulls away from sides of pan.
• 13 cook cake completely on a wire rack and remove from pan.
• 14 to serve, cut cake with a serrated knife.
• 15 note: if you make this cake in a 9-iinch square pan, reduce baking time by 5 minutes.