A Cup of Tea and Cake’s Maple Toffee Apple Cake - Maple from Canada

Ingredients

• 700g self-raising flour
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground nutmeg
• 500g unsalted butter, cubed and brought to room temperature
• 600g maple sugar
• 6 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla bean paste
• 250ml buttermilk
• 4 apples, peeled, coarsely grated
• 125ml apple juice
• 250ml pure maple syrup (preferably dark syrup for its robust taste)
• 220g maple sugar
• 3 small gala apples
• 30g roasted almonds
• 750g cream cheese, cold
• 185g unsalted butter, softened
• 100g maple sugar
• 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp vanilla bean paste