Ribbons of cinnamon and spice run through this moist Bundt cake, loaded with apple and drizzled with a maple-cinnamon glaze.

Ingredients:

Cake

  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 cup plain Greek yogurt
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. Kosher salt
  • 2 medium apples (your favorite variety)
  • 1/3 cup crushed pecans or walnuts, optional

Filling

  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp. cloves
  • 1/4 tsp. nutmeg

Glaze

  • 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 Tbsp. pure maple syrup
  • 3 Tbsp. (or more) milk, to reach desired drizzling consistency
  • Pinch of salt

Instructions: 

Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour bundt pan.
  2. Cream butter and sugar together in mixer.
  3. Add eggs, vanilla and yogurt and blend.
  4. Add dry ingredients and mix until combined.
  5. Peel, core and chop apples and fold into mixture, and add nuts if using. Pour half of mixture into pan.
  6. Combine filling ingredients together and spoon over batter in pan. Cover with remaining batter.
  7. Bake 30-35 minutes, until knife comes out barely clean.
  8. Let cool for five minutes, then invert onto rack.

Glaze

  1. Melt butter. Add all ingredients and stir until smooth.
  2. Drizzle over cooled cake.