Recipes
An easy apple spice cake using a box mix and any size or shape pan. Made with Musselman’s Apple Pie Filling & Apple Butter.
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350°F. Reference cake mix box for appropriate pan size(s). Grease pan(s).
Step 2
Combine DRY cake mix with the apple pie filling, 1/3 cup apple butter, and eggs (do not add oil or water). Stir well.
Step 3
Bake for the amount of time directed on the box of cake mix for the pan size selected. Cool cake.
Step 4
For the icing: Blend the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar and 4 Tablespoons of apple butter until smooth. Spread icing on a cooled cake.
Easy, moist, delicious and the folks all love it. I have made it for work related celebrations for years.
My mom always made the apple butter cake recipe that use to b on the mussels man apple butter jar back n the 80s they no longer have that on there can they bring it back it’s the best recipe my mom still hunts for it on jars some stole hers
Hi Lucile,
It may be the following recipe:
Apple Butter Cake
1 cup Apple Butter
½ cup shortening
4 eggs, beaten
1 cup sugar
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
1-1/2 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon cloves
1 cup sour milk or buttermilk
Cream the shortening. Add sugar gradually and continue to cream until fluffy. Add well-beaten eggs and mix thoroughly. Sift flour, measure, and sift again with soda, spices and salt. Add dry ingredients alternately with sour milk. Add apple butter and blend well into mixture. Pour into a greased loaf pan 5 x 9 x 4 inches. Bake 50 minutes at 350 deg. F.
Let us know if this is the one that she is looking for!