Apple Butter Cake with Apple Butter Frosting

I’ve  been in an experimental mood this week.  On two occasions I’ve baked things using without using a recipe.  On Sunday night I was craving something sweet.  I had a lot of peaches that were about to go bad so I figured I’d whip up a peach crisp.  I wanted a crunchy topping with a slightly spiced filling.  Well the topping was dry and the peach filling had so much cinnamon and ginger that it was only edible with a lot of vanilla ice cream mixed in.  I ate one serving, but threw out the rest.

Then I decided I wanted to make a sunflower seed butter cookie based on a confection I had in Portland.  Unfortunately no stores in my neighborhood had sunflower seed butter.  So I bought a container of apple butter instead.  I based this cake off from the lots-of-ways banana cake in Baking: From My Home to Yours.  And it came out really good – if you like apples.  The apple butter gives the cakes a very concentrated apple flavor.

I'm a huge fan of Baker's Joy. These cakes came out of the pan with no issues.

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