Apple Cider Donut Cake The Most Easy Moist Snack Cake Reduced Apple Cider Sour Cream Butter Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting Fall

Apple Cider Donut Cake is the recipe that Lucia makes every most casually beloved fall potluck and every individual October family gathering when she wants to create the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely easy-to-share individual apple cider donut cake in the most conveniently crowd-feeding and the most effortlessly portioned individual 9 by 13-inch individual snack cake format — distinct from every most previous individual apple cider cake version because this most specific individual version is designed as the most properly casual and the most beautifully unfussy individual snack cake individual format that does not require any most individual bundt pan.

Any most individual layer cake assembly, or any the most individual special individual pan beyond the most standard individual 9 by 13-inch individual baking pan that every most individual baker already possesses, making this the most completely accessible and the most genuinely beginner-friendly individual apple cider donut cake for every most individual fall gathering.

Apple Cider Donut Cake is the most easy and deeply extraordinary 55-minute moist 9×13 snack apple cider individual fall cake made by reducing apple cider combining butter sugars eggs vanilla sour cream and reduction with flour cinnamon nutmeg baking powder soda and salt baking at 350°F for 28 to 33 minutes frosting with cinnamon cream cheese frosting. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful cake recipes and easy fall favorites from our kitchen every single week.

Why You Will Love This Apple Cider Donut Cake Recipe

This Apple Cider Donut Cake recipe is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely accessible individual apple cider donut cake that delivers every most beloved individual apple cider donut individual flavor element — the most concentrated individual apple cider individual character, the most warm individual nutmeg and cinnamon individual spice profile, the most properly moist individual crumb — in the most conveniently crowd-feeding and the most effortlessly portioned individual 9 by 13-inch snack cake format that requires absolutely no most individual special equipment.

The most individual cinnamon cream cheese frosting rather than the most individual plain cinnamon sugar coating is the single most brilliantly distinguishing individual element of this most individual apple cider donut cake version — the most individual cinnamon cream cheese provides the most beautifully tangy and the most properly rich individual frosting layer that most completely complements the most concentrated individual apple cider individual cake base for the most genuinely extraordinary individual donut cake experience. Our Apple Cider Doughnut Cake makes a beautifully equally apple cider and equally cinnamon-coated companion for a complete and wonderful apple cider donut cake collection.

Ingredients Needed for This Apple Cider Donut Cake Recipe

For the Apple Cider Reduction:

• 1½ cups Fresh Apple Cider, reduced to approximately ½ cup

For the Moist Apple Cider Snack Cake:

• 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
• 2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Ground Nutmeg
• 1½ tsp Baking Powder
• ½ tsp Baking Soda
• ½ tsp Salt
• ½ cup Unsalted Butter, softened
• 1 cup Packed Brown Sugar
• 2 large Eggs, room temperature
• 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
• ½ cup Sour Cream, room temperature
• ½ cup Apple Cider Reduction

For the Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting:

• 8 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese, room temperature
• ¼ cup Unsalted Butter, room temperature
• 2½ cups Powdered Sugar, sifted
• 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1 tbsp Apple Cider Reduction
• Pinch of Salt

How to Make This Apple Cider Donut Cake Recipe

Reduce 1½ cups fresh apple cider to approximately half a cup over medium-high heat — bring to boil then vigorous simmer, cooking 12 to 15 minutes. Cool completely, cara mia.

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and line a 9 by 13-inch baking pan with parchment paper.

Whisk together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

Beat the softened butter and brown sugar together for 2 minutes until the most light and creamy. Add the eggs one at a time, then vanilla. Add the sour cream and apple cider reduction, mixing until incorporated.

Add the flour mixture and fold just until combined. Spread most evenly in the prepared pan.

Bake at 350°F for 28 to 33 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely in the pan before frosting.

For the individual cinnamon cream cheese frosting, beat the room-temperature cream cheese and butter until the most silky smooth. Add sifted powdered sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, apple cider reduction, and salt. Beat until the most beautifully fluffy and spreadable. Frost the most generously over the most cooled individual cake.

How to Serve This Apple Cider Donut Cake Recipe

Serve in the most generous individual rectangle portions directly from the pan for the most conveniently casual and the most genuinely crowd-pleasing individual apple cider donut cake potluck individual presentation.

For the most completely extraordinary individual fall potluck presentation, bring the entire individual baking dish and serve individual portions with the most large individual spoon alongside individual mugs of the most warm apple cider for the most completely autumn-appropriate and the most genuinely cozy individual fall potluck gathering. Our Apple Cider Doughnut Cake makes a beautifully equally apple cider and equally fall-warming companion for a complete and wonderful apple cider donut cake collection.

How to Store This Apple Cider Donut Cake Recipe

Refrigerate covered for up to 5 days due to the cream cheese frosting. Allow 20 minutes at room temperature before serving for the most properly softened individual cinnamon cream cheese frosting.

Tips to Make This Apple Cider Donut Cake Recipe

Bring all individual ingredients — butter, eggs, sour cream — fully to room temperature before beginning for the most completely smooth and the most properly emulsified individual batter. Cold individual ingredients prevent the most complete individual emulsification and produce the most improperly mixed individual batter with the most uneven individual crumb.

Helpful Notes for This Apple Cider Donut Cake Recipe

For the most authentically individual apple cider donut individual flavor character, add one quarter teaspoon of the most individual allspice alongside the most individual cinnamon and the most individual nutmeg in the most individual cake batter — the most individual allspice most brilliantly rounds and the most completely deepens the most individual warm individual spice profile for the most genuinely apple cider doughnut individual authentic individual flavor.

Variation of This Apple Cider Donut Cake Recipe

Maria made a version sprinkling a generous individual tablespoon of cinnamon sugar over the most individual cream cheese frosting immediately after spreading for the most completely extraordinary and the most properly apple-cider-doughnut-authentic individual visual and individual textural individual cinnamon sugar coating over the most cream cheese individual frosting. Teresa tried a salted caramel drizzle over the most individual cream cheese frosting for the most completely extraordinary and the most deeply indulgent individual salted caramel cinnamon apple cider donut cake.

For a gluten-free version, substitute the most individual all-purpose flour with the same most individual quantity of the most certified gluten-free individual one-to-one baking flour for the most completely extraordinary and the most properly accessible individual gluten-free apple cider donut snack cake. Our Apple Cider Coffee Cake makes a beautifully equally apple cider spiced and equally fall brunch companion for a complete and wonderful apple cider fall cake collection.

FAQs About This Apple Cider Donut Cake Recipe

Conclusion

This Apple Cider Donut Cake is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely accessible moist reduced apple cider individual 9×13 snack cake that makes every fall potluck and every October gathering feel genuinely and completely special through the most concentrated apple cider and the most warmly spiced crumb and the most silky cinnamon cream cheese frosting in every single conveniently individual and completely irresistible apple cider donut cake rectangle.

We hope it brings the same deeply joyful fall apple cider donut cake magic and the same completely scraped-clean pan to your kitchen that it has always brought to ours. Make it, share it, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.

Apple Cider Donut Cake The Most Easy Moist Snack Cake Reduced Apple Cider Sour Cream Butter Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting Fall

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• Author: Nonna Lucia Bianchi
• Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes including reduction and cooling
• Yield: 20 to 24 servings 1x
• Diet: Vegetarian

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The most extraordinary moist Apple Cider Donut Cake made by reducing 1 1/2 cups fresh apple cider to 1/2 cup over medium-high heat 12 to 15 minutes cooling completely preheating oven to 350°F greasing and lining 9×13 pan whisking 2 cups flour 2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp nutmeg 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda and 1/2 tsp salt beating 1/2 cup softened butter and 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 minutes adding 2 room temperature eggs one at a time then vanilla adding sour cream and apple cider reduction incorporating adding flour mixture folding just combined spreading evenly in pan baking 350°F 28 to 33 minutes until toothpick clean cooling completely then beating 8 oz room temperature cream cheese and 1/4 cup room temperature butter silky adding 2 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp vanilla 1 tbsp apple cider reduction and salt beating fluffy frosting generously over cooled cake. A completely perfect moist reduced apple cider butter brown sugar sour cream cinnamon nutmeg cinnamon cream cheese frosting fall 9×13 snack donut cake recipe.

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Ingredients

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1 1/2 cups Fresh Apple Cider not apple juice for reduction

2 cups All-Purpose Flour

2 tsp Ground Cinnamon

1 tsp Ground Nutmeg

1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1/2 tsp Baking Soda

1/2 tsp Salt

1/2 cup Unsalted Butter softened

1 cup Packed Brown Sugar

2 large Eggs room temperature

1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract

1/2 cup Sour Cream room temperature

1/2 cup Apple Cider Reduction

8 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese room temperature

1/4 cup Unsalted Butter room temperature for frosting

2 1/2 cups Powdered Sugar sifted

1 tsp Ground Cinnamon for frosting

1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract for frosting

1 tbsp Apple Cider Reduction for frosting

Pinch of Salt

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Instructions

1. Reduce 1 1/2 cups apple cider to 1/2 cup over medium-high heat 12 to 15 minutes. Cool completely.

2. Preheat oven to 350°F 175°C. Grease and line 9×13 pan.

3. Whisk flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

4. Beat softened butter and brown sugar 2 minutes. Add eggs one at a time then vanilla. Add sour cream and reduction. Mix incorporated. Add flour mixture. Fold just combined.

5. Spread evenly in pan. Bake 28 to 33 minutes until toothpick clean. Cool completely.

6. Beat cream cheese and butter silky. Add powdered sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, reduction, and salt. Beat fluffy.

7. Frost generously over cooled cake.

• Prep Time: 20 minutes
• Cook Time: 33 minutes
• Category: Dessert, Cake, Apple, Fall, Snack Cake
• Method: Baking
• Cuisine: American

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 rectangle
• Calories: 295
• Sugar: 28g
• Sodium: 175mg
• Fat: 13g
• Saturated Fat: 8g
• Unsaturated Fat: 4g
• Trans Fat: 0g
• Carbohydrates: 40g
• Fiber: 0.5g
• Protein: 4g
• Cholesterol: 58mg

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Lucia Bianchi

Lucia Bianchi is the heart of authentic Italian pizza. With decades of experience, she masters both classic and gourmet pizzas, bringing rich heritage and elegant flavors straight from Italy’s kitchen to your plate. Her passion for tradition and culinary creativity ensures every pizza is a delicious journey into Italy’s finest flavors.

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