Caramel Apple cheesecake Filled Butter Cake

By Wollygator

Caramel Apple Cheesecake Filled Butter Cake, classic Kentucky butter cake gets turned up with a cheescake filling, bits of apple throughout and topped with cinnamon caramel sauce.

Ingredients

• Cake Mixture:
• 1 Cup unsalted butter room temp
• 2 Cups granulated sugar
• 4 eggs
• 3 Cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 Cup buttermilk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or extract
• 2 Cups apple pie filling rough chop
• 1/2 Cup caramel bits optional
• Cheese filling:
• 8 oz cream cheese room temp
• 1/2 Cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or extract
• Butter sauce:
• 3/4 Cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 Cup butter melted
• 3 Tablespoons water
• 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or extract

Preparation

Step 1

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs one at a time until fully mixed. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking powder and cinnamon, set aside. In a separate bowl, mix together the buttermilk and vanilla.
2. Alternating between the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture a little at a time, add to the butter mixture starting with the dry ingredients. Once everything is fully combined, fold in the apples and caramel bits. Set aside.

Cheese filling:
1. Mix all ingredients together until smooth.
2. Place half of the cake batter into a well greased bundt pan. Spoon the cheese filling into the center, making sure not to touch the sides of the pan. Top off with the rest of the cake batter.
3. Bake for 70-80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean (a little moisture is okay). Let cool on a wired rack.

Butter sauce:

1. While the cake is cooling, make the butter sauce by combining all the ingredients.
2. Poke the cake while it is still in the pan with lots of holes all over. You can use a skewer for this or a fork. Slowly, ladle on the butter sauce. Let it absorb and keep pouring, it will absorb it all!
3. Let cool completely. Take out of pan and top with Cinnamon Buttermilk Caramel Sauce. Serve and enjoy!