Autumn Apple Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Spice Icing

1.5 cup Milk, 1%
1 package (18.50 oz) Cake, yellow, dry mix, light
5 large Egg, fresh, whole, raw
16 oz Cream Cheese
1 cup Butter, unsalted
4 cup Domino's Confectioners Sugar 10X Powered Pure Cane Sugar (by AUNTJESSICA)
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
3 tbsp Pumpkin Pie spice
3 serving Apple - Red Delicious
1.5 cup, chopped Pecans

Cake is best eaten cold - keep the cake in the fridge so the cream cheese icing does not melt

1) Cut wax paper the size of round 8 or 9 inch pans.
2) Grease the pans and then lay the wax paper down, and then grease the wax paper.
3) Make the cake batter as instructed on the box, however add milk instead of water, and add 5 eggs instead of 3.
***Adding more eggs and milk will make the cake richer and taste like it came from a bakery***
4) Chop up two (2) apples and put them in the batter.
5) Separate the cake batter into the 2 pans and bake at 350 degrees for roughly 20-25min. Check the cake with a toothpick to make sure its cooked fully.
5) Take them out and let cool for 15 minutes; then turn upside down on a cake rack, remove from pan, and take the wax paper off slowly. Let cool completely

Icing
1) Beat butter and cream cheese together
2) Gradually add the confectioners sugar
3) Add spices and vanilla - you can add more or less depending on how strong you want it to be
4) Put in the fridge to get hard before adding to cake

Assembly
1) Level the cakes to your liking
2) Put one layer on a cake plate.
3) Add a thick layer of the icing to the bottom layer and then place the 2nd layer on top of it. Ice this layer
4) Stick in the fridge for roughly 15 minutes to allow to "set".
5) Crumb coat the rest of the cake and then put in the fridge for 30 minutes.
6) Cut 3rd apple slices and place in lemon juice to keep from turning brown
7) Chop the pecans (or walnuts if you prefer)
8) Take the cake out and place the apple slices in a pinwheel setting.
9) Spring the chopped nuts over the top and around the base of the cake.

Cut and Serve!

Serving Size: 14 slices

Number of Servings: 14

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user ZIONGAMMA.