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This Best Apple Cake Ever is super moist and delicious with the perfect amount of sweetness and spice!
If you’re still looking for an easy – and really delicious – dessert to serve over the holidays, have we got the recipe for you! My sister-in-law Pam shared this recipe with us over email with the subject line: “Best Apple Cake Ever!”
Pam celebrated her birthday last month, and a friend of hers showed up with this cake – the best apple cake ever. In fact – the cake was so good, the three of them ate the entire cake in about 24 hours.
Pam then made this apple cake for us for Thanksgiving – and it was so good, Jack and I immediately looked at each other and said, “We’re making this for our blog!”
This apple cake is moist and delicious with the perfect amount of sweetness and spice – plus large chunks of apple and chopped walnuts add great flavor and texture to the cake too. Once this apple cake comes out of the oven, a wonderful sweet buttery vanilla glaze is poured over the top which soaks in to make the cake even more delicious.
Not only is this apple cake really delicious – but it’s also very easy to prepare.
Can I make this cake in a 9×13-inch pan?
Yes – and this easy apple cake comes out just as moist and delicious. Click here to see the instructions for baking this apple cake in a 9×13-inch pan.
You may enjoy these other Bundt Cakes:
- Spiced Eggnog Chocolate Chip Cake
- Kathy’s Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cake
- Toffee Pecan Bundt Cake with Caramel Drizzle
- Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake
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Best Apple Cake Ever
This Best Apple Cake Ever is super moist and delicious with the perfect amount of sweetness and spice!
Ingredients
Baking spray with flour, or shortening and flour to grease the pan
For the Cake
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 large apples, peeled and cut into large pieces (Note: The original recipe calls for tart green apples, but we used some red Cortland apples we had on hand and it was delicious!)
- 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
For the Glaze
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan and set aside.
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Sift two additional times and set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine oil and both sugars, and mix until well blended.
- Add eggs one at a time, mixing thoroughly after each addition. Add vanilla and mix again.
- Add the sifted dry ingredients to the batter and mix thoroughly. By hand, fold in apples and walnuts and mix until evenly combined.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared bundt pan. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Remove cake from the oven and allow to cool in the bundt pan for 20 minutes.
- While the cake is cooling, prepare the glaze. In a saucepan, over medium heat, combine all of the glaze ingredients. Bring to a boil and allow the mixture to boil for 1 minute.
- Remove the cake from the pan, onto a serving plate. Spoon the glaze over the warm cake.
- Cool for a little longer before serving.
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Excellent recipe! Thank you!
You’re very welcome!
Is there an adjustment for altitude ?
Hi Chris – We aren’t experts on adjustments for high altitude baking (we actually live near the coast ourselves and have never tested this recipe at higher altitudes). You might find this article from King Arthur Flour to be helpful: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/learn/resources/high-altitude-baking
I wish we could have an approximate amount of apples ( 2 cups? 3 cups?) as I have a package of frozen apples but have no idea how many apples it represents – I think more than the recipe calls for but I don’t know! Thank you.
It looks so good that I’m going to use my sanctified common sense and go ahead, but will check back for an answer. Thank you.
Hi Ruth – Are your frozen apples cut into slices? Or are they in chunks? Were they cooked before freezing? That kind of detail would make a difference in how to attempt to respond to your question.
I did not have a bundt pan and used an angel food pan. The top was all cracked. Is this common when not using the bundt pan?
Hi Pam – There was some cracking on the top our cake in the bundt but it is served face down (top down?) so not noticeable in our photos. It’s possible that the angel food pan made the cracking worse, but we’re just guessing – we’ve never tried this recipe in an angel food pan.
This cake is wonderful. I will certainly be making again!
Thanks Vickie!
My batter came out very thick. Was it supposed to? Just wondering, I did double the recipe, wondered if that may have caused it.
Sounds about right Vickie – it’s typically a very dense batter.
Very good. I didn’t have a bundt pan so used two deep 9 inch cake pans with small pyrex desert dish in center with pie weights. Worked great & delicious! Baked for around 30 minutes until toothpick inserted came out clean.
Thanks Robin!
Truly the best ever Apple cake, Bundt cake!
Rich, but not heavy, decadantlt delicious.
Not to mention, easy-peasy to make.
Thanks Althea!
LOVE this recipe! Found it in January 2021 and I’ve made it at least six times! The first time I did as the recipe said and it was delicious. The next few times, I changed it slightly. Instead of 1 1/2 cups oil, I used 1 1/4 cup apple sauce and 1/4 cup oil. For the sugar, I used only 3/4 cup brown sugar instead of 1 1/2 cup total sugar. I don’t mix the walnuts into the cake batter. I sprinkled on top of the cake batter in the pan and pushed it down so I don’t lose any when it’s all baked. I serve it on a platter with the bundt cake upside down and pour the caramel sauce over it. It always turns out great!! Thank you!!!
You’re welcome Louella!
I had been looking fir a long time for my Apple Cake recipe that I lost. And I found this yesterday and made it for a B-B-Q and it was a great success! It is absolutely delicious! Could have left it a little longer in the oven.
Thanks Margaret! So glad you found us!