Bake a Cake! Apple Spice cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting

You should bake this cake. Why? Because it is:

1. Easy
2. Yummy

I found this recipe on Lick the Bowl Good. It is a perfect fall cake, and the recipe is good for small families.
( originally adapted from The Cake Book then further adapted by me)

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 cardamom
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2/3 cup buttermilk
2 cups Gala apples, peeled and chopped into 1/3-inch pieces
1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans

First you need to read the ingredient list and make sure you have everything.
Second read the whole recipe beginning to end so you know what you are doing, when you are doing it.
Everything goes better if everything is at room temperature, so get all the cold ingredients out and let them come up to temperature.

Pre-heat your oven to 350F. Grease and Flour and 9x5 loaf pan. Get together the first 8 ingredients (all the dry shit) and whisk it together in a bowl (duh). Peel (or don't, I did) your apple. Chop your nuts. Get a second bowl and a hand mixer or a stand mixer and whip that butter. While your butter is getting all big and fluffy measure out the buttermilk, and the brown sugar. Get your sugar in the butter once the butter in FLUFFY. Then get those two fluffy together. Next add one room temperature egg (cause you did what I said and got your shit out early), mix it in, add the other, mix it in, and add vanilla.

Now you need to add in your dry ingredients and the buttermilk, alternately. So you start and end with dry every time you bake a cake.
Use a spatula to stir in your nuts and apple chunks. Put your super yummy batter (it smells good don't it, go ahead and taste a little) in the loaf pan and bake it up for about 30 minutes.

Take it out of the oven when it is done.
Make your Frosting!

8 ounces cream cheese, softened
3 Tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon maple flavoring or 1 Tbsp. real maple syrup (you better use real)
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
Pinch of salt
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted

Whip your ROOM TEMPERATURE cream cheese and butter until it is...FLUFFY!
Add Vanilla, Grade B real Maple syrup, spices, and salt. Lastly add your powdered sugar.