Stellar Apple Spice Cakes

Recipe Ingredients

		For The Cake
1 cup	146g / 5.1oz	Chopped dates
		= (or whole dark or golden raisins)
2 cups	125g / 4.4oz	All-purpose flour
3		Eggs
1 1/2 cups	297g / 10oz	Sugar
1 cup	237ml	Vegetable oil
1 teaspoon	5ml	Salt
1 teaspoon	5ml	Baking soda
1 teaspoon	5ml	Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Ground allspice
1 teaspoon	5ml	Pure vanilla extract
2 cups	474ml	Peeled apple chunks
		= (from about 3 apples)
1 cup	146g / 5.1oz	Chopped walnuts
		For The Glaze
1/2 cup	164g / 5.8oz	Maple syrup
1 1/2 cups	297g / 10oz	Confectioners' sugar

Recipe Instructions

Additional equipment needed: 1 or 2 bundt muffin tins (makes mini bundt cakes with no hole) or 1 regular muffin tin, buttered and floured (or use nonstick).

Heat the oven to 350 degrees.

Place the dates in a bowl and toss them with 2 tablespoons of the flour until lightly coated (this will prevent them from sinking in the cake batter during baking).

Beat the eggs and sugar in a mixer fitted with a whisk attachment (or using a hand mixer) until fluffy. With the mixer running, slowly pour in the oil.

In a separate bowl, mix the flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and vanilla. Mix into the egg mixture. Mix in the apples and nuts, then stir in the dates by hand, distributing them evenly in the batter.

Spoon into the muffin tins and bake about 35 minutes, until springy and dry in the center. Let cool in the pan on a wire rack, then turn out.

Meanwhile, make the glaze: Stir the maple syrup and sugar together in a bowl. Glaze the cooled cakes by spooning the glaze around the tops of the cakes and letting it drip down the sides.

This recipe yields 24 cakes.

Source:
COOKING LIVE with Sara Moulton - (Show # CL-9787) - from the TV FOOD NETWORK

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