Ingredients:

1 box Spice Cake Mix (15.25 Oz)

3 eggs

1 cup apple cider (not apple juice!)

1/2 cup cinnamon apple sauce

1 tsp vanilla

For Topping:

1/3 cup sugar

2  1/2 TBSP cinnamon 

4 TBSP butter, melted and cooled

For Optional Glaze Dip see TIPS.

Directions:

Grease and flour a Bundt pan and set aside.

Preheat oven to 350F.

Place cake mix, eggs, apple cider, apple sauce and vanilla in a large bowl.

Blend with electric mixer until all ingredients are combined well.

Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan.

Level top evenly.

Bake on middle rack of your oven for about 45 minutes or until a toothpick (or cake tester) inserted in the middle of the cake, comes out clean.

Remove from oven and allow to cool 15 to 20 minutes until lukewarm.

Once cake has cooled, brush surface with melted butter.

Mix sugar and cinnamon well.

Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture over butter.

If needed, sprinkle a bit more cinnamon-sugar over cake before serving.

TIPS:

Some boxed cake mixes have reduced their amounts to 13 Oz so make sure you get one that is still 15 Oz. 

Do not brush butter on cake if it’s still very warm or it will be immediately absorbed and cinnamon-sugar will not stick. Also, make sure melted butter has cooled before brushing cake.

The ingredients for the topping are flexible. Feel free to increase or decrease amounts as you prefer.

If you like, you can make a glaze dip for the cake with 1 cup of powdered sugar and 1/4 cup apple cider.