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Delicious Cream Cheese Bundt Cake Recipe

Makes 1 [15-cup] Bundt Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened and cubed
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 4 cups plus 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour, divided
  • 5 large eggs, room temperature and divided
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
  • 3 large Granny Smith apples, peeled and cored
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
  • 3 tablespoons whole milk, room temperature
  • 2 tablespoons cane syrup
  • Garnish: chopped pecans

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325°.
  2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat cream cheese, granulated sugar, and 2 teaspoons flour at medium-low speed until creamy, stopping to scrape sides of bowl.

3. Add 1 egg; beat until smooth, about 2 minutes, stopping to scrape sides of bowl. Transfer to a medium bowl and refrigerate.

4. In a large bowl, whisk together cinnamon, baking soda, salt, ginger, nutmeg, and remaining 4 cups flour.

5. Using the large holes of a box shred apple. Add apple and vanilla to butter mixture; beat at low speed for 1 minute. Gradually add flour mixture beating just until combined.

6. Spray a 15-cup Bundt pan with baking spray with flour. Spoon half of batter into prepared pan. Tap pan on a kitchen towel-lined counter several times to settle batter and release any air bubbles. Using the back of a spoon, make a 1/2-inch-deep trench in center of batter in pan, leaving a 1/4- to 1/2-inch border around edges.

7. Spoon alternating dollops of batter and cream cheese mixture into trench. After completing 1 ring in pan, spoon batter over cream cheese mixture dollops and vice versa until all cream cheese mixture is used.

8. Drag a butter knife through center of each dollop to swirl into batter. (It’s OK if some cream cheese mixture touches sides of pan.) Spoon and gently spread remaining batter on top, covering cream cheese mixture. Do not tap pan. Smooth top of batter.

9. Bake until a wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean, 1 hour and 10 minutes to 1 hour and 15 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes. Invert cake onto a wire rack and let cool completely.

10. In a small bowl, whisk together confectioners’ sugar, milk, and cane syrup until smooth. Drizzle onto cooled cake. Garnish with pecans, if desired. Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

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baking, Cakes /Bar, Party Food, Recipes, Seasonal

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How to Make Lemon-Apple Jelly at Home

Makes 4 half -pint jars

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1½ cups apple juice
  • 1/2 cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 pouch (3 ounces) liquid fruit pectin

Directions:

  1. Combine sugar and apple and lemon juices in a large saucepan; bring to a full rolling boil over high heat, stirring occasionally.
  2. Add pectin; bring back to a full rolling boil and boil 30 seconds, stirring constantly.
  3. Skim off foam.
  4. Pour into hot, sterilized half-pint jars, filling to 3/4 inch of top.
  5. Wipe tops of jars clean; seal.
  6. Process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes.

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Canning, Pickling, and Preserving, other, Recipes

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It is Fall Time

This poem is like a nursery rhyme you have to put a tune to it [ I use the tune of Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes] but if you know a better one for you use it.


It is fall; oh, it is fall you know what that means the leaves change colors red, orange and yellow. Oh, what beautiful sight.

Oh, how the little Squires run here and there in the falling leaves to get food for the winter.

But that’s not all. Pumpkins are being picked from the farmer’s garden. Some are red like a little red apple. Some are yellow like the sun, but some orange just like a little orange.

It is funny how to tell if it is good; all you need is to tap to hear if it sounds like a hollow tree.

Fall is fun. You see apple picking is next up. If an Apple is sweet and juicy, it is ready to be picked.

It is fall; oh, it is fall. You know what season it is. It is the season for Sunflowers. Oh, how I do love fall.

by Bell

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Fall, Poems and more, Poems and Stories by Bell, Seasonal

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