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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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Truly best apple cake ever
Thank you!
This cake made me famous!! Lol that’s how good it is!
Thanks Michelle! 🙂
This cake looks amazing! Could I use a 9 x 13 metal pan instead of a Bundt pan? If so how should I adjust bake time? Thank you!
Yes – follow this recipe: https://www.afamilyfeast.com/apple-dapple-cake/ (it’s the same cake baked in a 9×13 pan)
Absolutely delicious! Very easy to make, but no way does it take only 15 minutes to prepare! I would need to be Martha Stewart on steroids to do it that fast! Great recipe. Worth every minute!
Thanks for the feedback Barbara
Simply amazing!
Thanks Daisy!
Can I make this recipe in two bread pans instead, and if so, how long should they bake?
Hi Liz – We’ve never tried doing so, but just yesterday, we had a reader comment that they made this recipe in loaf pans and it came out great. She didn’t mention how long it took to bake however…sorry I can’t be more help without testing it ourselves.
I’m new to baking, but I just went apple picking and have too many apples to know what to do with. I used a medium loaf pan instead of a bundt and they still turned out great, I got 2 loaves out of one batch of batter. I thought I had done something wrong at first because of how thick the batter was (it looked more like cookie dough), but it baked great and tastes delicious, though next time I’d cut the apples a bit smaller for more even dispersement.
Thanks Emily – it’s definitely a thick batter!
I was a bit concerned as the batter very thick, reminded me of joint compound..It ended up being ,moist, light and delicious
Glad you enjoyed the cake Joan!
It’s fantastic. !!!!
Thanks Linda!
I just read the comments and need to make this. I was looking to make mini bundt cakes for a Baby Shower would this work for that? Thinking maybe 15-20 minutes to bake?
I’m not sure Nancy – we’ve only made the cake in the full-size bundt pan. Sorry I can’t be more help.