Cardamom Spiced Whole Wheat Apple Cake + Honey Caramel
Serves: 1 large bundt cake or 2 small bundt cakes
 
Ingredients
  • FOR THE CAKE:
  • 1½ cups Whole Wheat Flour
  • 1½ cups Oat Flour
  • 2 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • ¼ teaspoon Salt
  • ¼ teaspoon Ground Cloves
  • ½ teaspoon Ground Cardamom
  • 1¼ teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
  • 6 oz. Butter, cold, cut into cubes
  • ¾ C. Turbinado Sugar
  • 3 Large Tart Pink Apples (I used Honeycrisp)
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 1¼ C. Buttermilk
  • FOR THE HONEY CARAMEL:
  • ½ cup Honey
  • ½ cup Heavy Cream (grass-fed)
  • pinch of salt
Instructions
  1. FOR THE CAKE:
  2. Grease and flour a large bundt pan or two smaller bundt pans (I used a smaller bundt pan for the cake pictured).
  3. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
  4. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, cloves, cardamom, and cinnamon into a large mixing bowl. Make sure the bowl is very large to allow room for the apples to be folded in.
  5. Cut the butter into the flour using your fingers or a pastry cutter until the mixture resembles fine crumbs.
  6. Add the ¾ C. sugar to the flour mixture and mix in.
  7. Peel the apples and slice them into small cubes (about ¼" x ¼").
  8. Toss the apples into the flour mixture and combine them thoroughly.
  9. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs vanilla, and buttermilk together. Add to the apples and flour and mix in with a large spatula until just combined. Batter will be thick and dough-like.
  10. Transfer the dough into the prepared bundt pan or pans and flatten the top surface using the back of your spatula.
  11. Bake for 55-60 minutes (40-45 minutes for small bundts). Test the center for done-ness (a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake should come out mostly clean). The top of the cake should be golden brown. Cool for 10 minutes and turn out of pan/pans. Make honey caramel.
  12. FOR THE HONEY CARAMEL:
  13. Place the honey, salt, and heavy cream in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium/high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 5-6 minutes, or until mixture has reduced by half and is thick enough to coat the back of the spoon. Remove from heat.
  14. Let cool for 5-10 minutes. Drizzle over the top of the warm cake.
  15. Serve cake warm with vanilla ice cream.
Recipe by The Kitchen McCabe at https://www.thekitchenmccabe.com/2016/09/15/cardamom-spiced-whole-wheat-apple-cake-honey-caramel/