This Honey Nougat Apple Butter Cake is made using honey nougat and apple butter. Two premade ingredients I had to hand.
I am currently studying Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the first assignment we had to do was keep track of what we ate in one day. The most surprising thing I learnt is that eggs have empty calories. Empty calories are the calories we consume that provide us with energy, but little or no nutrition. Processed carbohydrates provide us with the most empty calories, but this does not mean that I am going to stop eating cake! For this cake I made use of ingredients in my pantry. I had the honey nougat that needed to be used as it was too sticky to eat as is. I also still have two jars of apple butter from my not very successful attempt at making this. It works the same way as jam or marmalade would in a recipe. The result was a dense but very moist cake. I used my chocolate transfer sheets to decorate the chocolate pieces around the cake and I made a frosting using my salted caramel and some whipped cream.
Do you make use of left over sweet treats to bake with?
Honey Nougat And Apple Butter Cake
Ingredients
- 175 g butter
- 120 g honey nougat
- 100 g apple butter
- 3 eggs
- 5 mls baking powder
- 100 g self raising flour
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
- Cream the butter and the nougat in a stand mixer for 5 minutes
- Add the apple butter and mix in
- Add an egg at a time, mixing thoroughly
- Add the baking powder and mix in
- Add the flour, a tablespoon at a time, mixing thoroughly
- Pour into a lined baking tin
- Bake for 32 minutes and leave to cool on a wire rack before icing
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What I blogged:
- one year ago – Eating and Sleeping at Spier
- two years ago – Lemon Myrtle Panna Cotta
Yummy! 😉 xx
thank you xxx
Beautiful cake. I bet you the apple butter make this cake really moist. Take care, BAM
The apple butter really helps with the moistness BAM 🙂
Oh, I didn’t know that about eggs! Love your cake recipe, Tandy… sounds quite divine!
Thanks Lizzy, I did not know that either and it was quite a shock to learn!
This one looks very moist and tasty. Apples are always welcomed in my baking! Good luck on your assignment..:) ela
Thanks Ela 🙂
A georgous appetizing looking cake, Tandy! Waw even! xxx
Thank you Sophie 🙂
It looks delicious Tandy! Good job 🙂
Thank you Giovanna 🙂
Those chocolate transfer sheets make it look very elegant Tandy! It sounds like a great looking cake. I don’t know how many empty calories I have. Perhaps a lot 😛
I think most bloggers eat a lot of empty calories Lorraine 🙂
Those chocolate sheets are simply beautiful, and they make it such a classy cake 😀
Yum!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
And they are fun to use!
Stunning – I bet it was delicious and I certainly wouldn’t have worried about those empty calories if I had been eating it 😉
I am going to ignore all empty calories from now on 😉
Looks wonderful! I love the chocolate decoration and the short list of ingredients.
Thank you Mary Frances 🙂
This cake looks amazing, very moist.
Thank you Cheri, it was very moist 🙂
Lovely cake Tandy and kudos to you on studying.
Have a super weekend.
🙂 Mandy xo
Hope you had a super weekend as well xox
wow! we have never combined left over ingredients for desserts to be honest! very clever. great recipe also!
I try and not waste all the sweet treats I have lying around 🙂
This cake looks divine!
thank you so much!
Beautiful Tandy! I really HAVE to explore chocolate transfer sheets – they’ve produced a stunning result in your cake!
Thanks Celia! I love them as they are so easy to use 🙂