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This Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake recipe is the perfect fall - or anytime! - dessert, with a cream cheese tunnel and cloaked with caramel icing.   #apples #applecake #cake #cakerecipes #icing #caramel #autumn #fallrecipes

This Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake recipe is the perfect fall – or anytime! – dessert, with a cream cheese tunnel and cloaked with caramel icing.  

An Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake on a plate sits atop a wood serving board flanked by a striped towel and green apples.

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Original content posted October 2018.  Updated September 2019.

Now that the cooler autumn weather has arrived, it’s all about the comfort foods of the season.  Basically all things apple and pumpkin are fair game.  And after being married for 16 years, I know that apple desserts are the key to my husband’s heart.  Definitely the inspiration behind this Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake.

A slice of Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake on a plate with a fork and sits next to a wood serving board flanked by a striped towel and green apples.

He’s the biggest fan of my Snickerdoodle Apple Crisp and was the one who actually shared with me the recipe for my Cinnamon Sugar Apple Cake.  And don’t forget the Apple Piecaken – an whole apple pie baked in a cake! – I made for his birthday this year.

An Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake is being drizzled with caramel icing on a plate sits atop a wood serving board flanked by a striped towel and green apples.

This Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake recipe is a combination of his love of all things of apple with my love of cheesecake.  A cinnamon spiked cake studded with apples with a tunnel of cream cheese baked in the middle and it’s all cloaked in my Homemade Caramel Icing.

Ingredients to create the cream cheese filling for a An Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake.

First up is the cream cheese filling.  Six ingredients that you likely already have in your kitchen become a cheesecake like tunnel that truly makes this apple cake stand out from the crowd.

Step by step photos of how to make the cream cheese filling for a Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake.

How to Make Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake

[1]  In the bowl of an electric mixer, add cream cheese, butter and sugar.  Cream together until smooth and completely combined.

[2]  Add egg, flour and vanilla and mix until just combined.  Set aside.

Dry batter ingredients for a Apple Cream Cheese Bundt cake rest in a white bowl on a grey and white specked background.

Next up is the cake batter.  No mixer required.  Instead, the batter for this Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake is simply stirred together.

Step by step photos of stirring together Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake batter ingredients in a white bowl on a grey and white specked background.

[3]  In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and allspice.

[4]  Add eggs, applesauce and vanilla and stir together until just combined.

[5]  Add apples to batter.

[6] Stir in apples until just incorporated.

Step by step photos of how to add batter to a bundt pan to create a Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake.

[7]  Grease and flour bundt pan.

[8]  Pour 2/3 of cake batter into bundt pan.

[9]  Leaving a 1″ border around edges of bundt pan, spoon cream cheese filling over batter.  Using a knife, swirl filling through apple mixture.

[10]  Pour remaining cake batter over cream cheese filling.  Bake for 60 to 75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

An Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake with a black pie server removing a slice, on a plate sits atop a wood serving board.

I guarantee it will be love at first bite after a slice of this apple bundt cake.  All six of us sitting around our dining room table gave it two thumbs up.  If you only knew how picky two of my children are when eating, you’d know that this was a definite seal of approval!

A slice of Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake on a plate sits next to a wood serving board flanked by a striped towel and green apples.

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4.24 from 13 votes

Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake

This Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake recipe is the perfect fall - or anytime! - dessert, with a cream cheese tunnel and cloaked with caramel icing.  
Prep Time30 mins
Cook Time1 hr 15 mins
Total Time1 hr 45 mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12
Calories: 587kcal
Author: Melanie Bauer | Melanie Makes

Ingredients

Cream Cheese Filling

  • 8 ounces cream cheese softened
  • 1/4 cup butter softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Apple Bundt Cake

  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon allspice
  • 3 eggs
  • 1-1/2 cups applesauce
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 Granny Smith apples chopped into 1/4" cubes

Homemade Caramel Icing

Instructions

Cream Cheese Filling

  • In the bowl of an electric mixer, add cream cheese, butter and sugar.
  • Cream together until smooth and completely combined.
  • Add egg, flour and vanilla and mix until just combined.

Apple Bundt Cake

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and allspice.
  • Add eggs, applesauce and vanilla and stir together until just combined.
  • Stir in apples until just incorporated.
  • Grease and flour bundt pan and pour 2/3 of cake batter into pan.
  • Leaving a 1" border around edges of bundt pan, spoon Cream Cheese Filling over batter.
  • Using a knife, swirl filling through apple mixture.
  • Pour remaining cake batter over Cream Cheese Filling.
  • Bake for 60 to 75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 
  • Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes before removing cake from pan to wire rack to cool completely.

Homemade Caramel Icing

  • Prepare Homemade Caramel Icing per instructions.
  • Immediately drizzle over cooled cake.

Notes

Adapted from My Recipes.

Nutrition

Calories: 587kcal | Carbohydrates: 106g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 96mg | Sodium: 444mg | Potassium: 160mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 49g | Vitamin A: 600IU | Vitamin C: 2.2mg | Calcium: 65mg | Iron: 2.1mg

Don’t put away your bundt pant just yet!  You’ll also want to try this Glazed Old Fashioned Doughnut Bundt Cake, this classic Marble Yogurt Bundt Cake and this fun Root Beer Bundt Cake.

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    • Melanie says

      Hi, Kenzie - Would love to hear more about why you think it's too much batter? I've never had a problem with this recipe.
      Reply

  9. Jennifer M says

    How does this hold up, if say, you make two days before an event? Will it get dry covered and stored in the refrigerator? I plan on making for Christmas Eve brunch but will need to make today or wake up really early morning of...
    Reply

  11. Lisa says

    I made this last night. Haven't tasted it yet. I followed it to a t but it seemed like too much batter for my pan. It rose beautifully and was out of the bundt pan. Maybe a measurement for the apples instead of just saying 3.... Maybe i had too much apple that I added that changed the amount of batter? I bake all the time and I couldnt figure out what I didn't wrong.
    Reply

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