Cinnamon Apple Cake (Hanukkah Cake)

Ingredients

• cooking spray
• 1.5 cups white sugar
• 6 ounces cream cheese , softened
• 0.5 cups butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 0.25 teaspoons salt
• 0.25 cups white sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 large baking apples , peeled and chopped

Instructions

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat an 8-inch springform pan with cooking spray.

2. 2

   Beat 1 ½ cups sugar, cream cheese, butter, and vanilla extract together in a bowl with an electric mixer until soft and creamy; beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

3. 3

   Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Combine ¼ cup sugar and cinnamon in a separate small bowl. Stir 2 tablespoons cinnamon-sugar into flour mixture; reserve remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture.

4. 4

   Stir flour mixture into cream cheese mixture until batter is smooth; stir in apples. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle batter with reserved cinnamon-sugar mixture.

5. 5

   Bake in the preheated oven until cake slightly pulls away from edges of the pan, about 1 ¼ hours. Cool cake completely on a wire rack before removing from the pan and slicing.