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Festive Bourbon Apple Cider Cake

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This festive Bourbon Apple Cider Cake combines all the flavors of an apple cider donut with a boozy twist of bourbon cream cheese frosting. It’s packed with cinnamon, nutmeg, and Honeycrisp apples, making it a perfect fall dessert for your celebrations.

Ingredients

  • Apple cider
  • Honeycrisp apples
  • Cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice
  • Bourbon (for frosting)
  • Cream cheese
  • Butter
  • Powdered sugar
  • Flour, baking powder, salt
  • Eggs, milk, vanilla

 

Instructions

  • Cream butter and sugar until fluffy, then add eggs.
  • Mix in milk, vanilla, dry ingredients, and spices.
  • Add pureed apples and reduced apple cider.
  • Bake in 3 pans at 350°F for 25 minutes.
  • For the frosting, beat cream cheese and butter, then add powdered sugar and bourbon.
  • Frost the cake and enjoy!

Notes

  • Use room temperature ingredients.
  • Full-fat cream cheese for best frosting consistency.
  • Chill frosting if it becomes too thin.