Cream Cheese Apple Cake

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Title: CREAM CHEESE APPLE CAKE
Categories: Fruits, Cakes
Yield: 16 Servings

Cake:
2 c Flour
1/2 ts Baking soda
1 ts Cream of tartar
1/4 ts Salt
1 c Butter
3/4 c Sugar
1 ts Vanilla
2 lg Eggs
Cream cheese filling:
16 oz Cream cheese
2 ts Vanilla
1/3 c Sugar
2 tb Heavy cream
Custard topping:
1 c Heavy cream; less 2 t
2 Eggs
1/2 c Sugar
1 tb Lemon juice
1/2 ts Cinnamon
1/8 ts Nutmeg
Apple topping:
3 lb Apples; 9 medium
1/2 c Pecans; finely chopped

CAKE: Preheat oven to 350. tightly wrap the outside of a 9" springform pan
with foil so it covers the bottom and sides of the pan. Butter the inside
of the pan. On waxed paper, stir together the flour, soda, cream of tartar
and salt. In large bowl cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Beat in eggs, then
flour mixture until blended. With wide spatula, spread batter over bottom
and sides of pan. Refrigerate. Without washing beater, make cream cheese
filling and custard topping. CREAM CHEESE FILLING: Beat all ingredients
together. CUSTARD TOPPING: Beat all ingredients together. APPLE TOPPING:
Pare and core the apples. Cut into 1/8 to 1/4" slices. Remove pan from
refrigerator; spread cream cheese filling over bottom. Arrange apples over
filling; pour custard topping over apples. Sprinkle with pecans. Bake on
rack below center of oven for 1 hr. Cover top with foil and continue baking
50-60 min. more until custard is set. Place on rack to cool. Remove foil;
loosen sides; remove band. Posted on Prodigy by Bette Leland.

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