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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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Thanks Stephen!
This really is the best apple cake ever. I used Gala Apples because all I had to do was core them. Their skin is so thin that it cooks like the apple themselves and you never get a piece of skin – what a time saver. Have passed the recipe on to several friends and gave them your website. Thank you
You’re welcome Jacqueline – glad you are enjoying the recipe!
The best first received this cake from a friend of my daughter during the passing of my husband. So thoughtful of her. I’ve been baking it ever since. So good.
I’m glad you enjoyed the cake Valerie. My sympathies on the loss of your husband.
Just mixed ingredients. Is the batter suppose to be cookie dough consistency? Suppose do not have time make another cake. Hope it comes out ok.
Hi Noreen
The batter is very thick and dense and does yield a nice finished cake.
Good luck
Loved this cake. I reduced granulated surgery by 1/2 cup and added coconut. It was so easy. The smell alone is 5 stars. Definitely will make again.
I love the idea of adding coconut Susie! (You might like this muffin recipe too: https://www.afamilyfeast.com/spiced-apple-coconut-muffins/) – now you have me thinking of all sorts of variations for this recipe! 🙂
l am going to freeze this cake .Should I glaze it after taking out of freezer or before
Hi Janet – I would suggest making half the amount of glaze to add while the cake is still warm out of the oven. Then once thawed add another half of the glaze before serving.
I nade this cake – It is absoilutely delish – and very easy. I willk be bring this cake to Thanksgiving dinner. I tried it out on ny co-workers,. Big hit!
Thanks Frank!!
Substitutes for vegetable oil in this recipe?
You could try grapeseed oil instead.
2 years ago I wanted to impress some out of town family members for our Holiday Feast and make this cake as one of the many desserts on the buffet. I was the rock star that night when everyone had a piece of it and told someone else to as well. Needless to say there was nothing left of my dessert, seriously not even the crumbs on the platter that my nephew scraped up and finished….Then somehow I lost the recipe and couldn’t remember where I had gotten the recipe from!!! I have spent so many hours looking for this recipe. Until now, by chance I click on a picture in Pinterest and hoped this would be it. In reading the ingredients and looking at the picture I was certain this one was IT! I couldn’t wait another minute and had to shop for some apples which had to be the freshest I could find. Got home and assembled all the ingredients to make this cake happen. House had that familiar aroma, I crossed my fingers and could hardly wait to glaze. Still just slightly warm and I served up a slice before anyone else knew. To my total JOY this is the cake that I remember!! I will not lose again! Signed up to subscribe. Yours truly, Total Apple Lover
So glad you found us (again)! 🙂
I have made this for three functions now. Never fails to get rave reviews. Flavors are fall perfection, presentation is beautiful. I get requests for the recipe all the time! Thanks for sharing 😊
You’re very welcome Connie – so glad the cake is such a hit!