Apple Cake in a Bundt Pan

1 cup finely chopped pecans

• 3 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp ground allspice
• 3 large eggs, lightly beaten 
• 3/4 cup canola oil 
• 3/4 cup applesauce 
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 cups peeled and finely chopped apples (about 1 1/2 lb.) Use a sweet apple, Fuji, Gala, Roma
• 1 (8-oz.) package cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup butter, softened 
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1  egg 
• 2 tbsp  flour
• 1 tsp vanilla 
• In a electric mixer toss in cream cheese butter and sugar and mix until smooth.  Toss in egg, flour, vanilla and mix well. Bake pecans at 350 on a cookie sheet for 8 minutes or until toasted and fragrant. In a large bowl toss in 3 cups flour, sugars, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, allspice, mix then stir in eggs,applesauce, oil and vanilla stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Then toss in the chopped apples and pecans.Oil or grease a bundt pan and pour 2/3 of the apple batter into the pan.  Then spoon in the cream cheese mixture on top of the apple batter.  You can swirl the the batter with a knife if you want.  Finally using a spatula scrape the remaining apple batter on top of the cheese mixture.  Toss in the oven for 1 hour.  To check if completely baked insert a knife into the center and if it comes out clean it's ready.  Let cool for 15 minutes and then remove from pan onto a wire rack. The it cool completely before adding the frosting.  
• FROSTING:
• 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup butter 
• 3 tbsp milk 
• 1 tsp vanilla 
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• In a small sauce pan toss in the brown sugar, butter, and milk and bring to a boil over medium heat, whisking constantly; boil 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla. Gradually whisk in powdered sugar until smooth until mixture begins to cool, has a smooth texture and thickens slightly. Pour immediately over cooled cake.
• Note: I place halved pecans on the top for presentation. Serve alone or with ice cream