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
Best Apple Cake Ever
This Best Apple Cake Ever is super moist and delicious with the perfect amount of sweetness and spice!
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour 15 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Yield: 10–12 servings 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
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.
Very yummy and very moist. I love the dense texture. I used Honey Crisp apples and they worked great. Folding the apples into the batter was a workout for my arms. The batter was very thick! But it baked up nicely.
Thanks Susie! We’re so glad you enjoyed the cake!
Absolutely the best apple cake I have ever baked. The texture was light, airy and totally delicious .
Thanks Karen!
Must be the best apple cake ever! Foud this recipe 3-4 months ago and have made it 6 times as of today my mother inlaw requests this cake often!
Thanks so much Jeffrey! So glad you are enjoying the recipe!
I baked cake for the first time and it was extremely good and every one liked it . Thank you very much
You’re welcome Shantha! Glad you all enjoyed the recipe!
Made this last week, my husband loved it! Making it again, he can’t get enough of it!
So glad you (both) enjoyed the cake Dana!
Best apple cake! WOAH! I actually didn’t ice the cake because I thought it was sweet enough without it! So yummy!
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed the recipe!
I know this cake as Apple Dapple Cake, love that name and the cake. It’s always a crowd pleaser and easy to transport to picnics and pot lucks.
Thanks Barbara – we’ve had one other reader write to us before who called this recipe by that name as well. (I love the name too!)
Made it in a tube pan. I reduced oil to 3/4 cup as other comments stated, and reduced sugar by half a cup (but used sugar to coat the pan). It was absolutely delicious.
I will modify your recipe to try to bake healthy-ish breakfast muffins this week:
– Will substitude 1/2 cup flour with old fashioned oats
– Will reduce oil to 1/2 cup and use 1/2 cup 6% fat plain yoghurt
– Will reduce sugar to a cup
– Will add 1/2 cup pepitas
– Will use 3 small russet apples in small diced and 2 grated carrots.
I feel I’m taking a gamble here and it’s not really the same recipe in the end, but will let you know how it turns out!
Thanks – let us know how it comes out!
Turned out amazing! Fluffy moist muffins, they might have risen even more than the original cake.
This cake came out great. I had 5 medium apples that needed using, so I chopped 3 of them and grated the other 3. I decided to cut the oil to 1 1/4 cups since I added the grated apple. It came out super moist. Also, I skipped the sifting. I will definitely make this again. Thanks.
You’re very welcome Barbara! So glad the recipe was a hit!
I make a similar cake from my mother in law. She would serve with a handmade custard that was so good.
Custard sauce is a great addition Mary! Thanks for the suggestion!