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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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Cake is terrific! The calorie count is way, way off. My bundt pan has 16 sections (generous sections) and the total calories of all ingredients is about 6200 cal. thus each piece would have 388 calories more or less, NOT 773!!
Thanks for your feedback Sue – we use a Nutritional calculator called Nutrifox and I just confirmed that the quantities of each ingredient entered match our recipe. We based our calculation on 10 slices not your 16 so that’s some of the discrepancy but I suppose each food calculator may be different.
I have made this now several times over the past year. It is the best apple cake ever & easy to make!
A+++
Thank you so much Bob!
Absolutely delicious. Love the crusty top. Wish I could turn this cake over and serve with the crusty part on top. This cake doesn’t have to have the glaze. It’s great without it. I think next time I’ll cook in a 9×13 pan or two loaf pans or an angel food pan. I made one mini loaf so I could taste the cake before giving it away. Not sure I’ll give away now! I used praline pecans instead of regular pecans, because I burned the plain pecans when toasting.
Glad you enjoyed the cake!
GREAT CAKE
Thanks Jackie!
Yes! The best apple cake ever.
Thanks Pat!
Do you think using canned apple pie filling would work?
Sorry Belinda – No. The filling will totally change the recipe (adding far too much liquid and sugar) – it’s already a very thick and dense batter with fresh apples and I think the filling would probably ruin the recipe.
ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!!
My two year old and I made this and it is so DELICIOUS!!
Thanks so much David!
This is THE Best Apple Cake recipe. It’s so moist and chock full of apples. I thought I had made a mistake because there seemed to be more apples than cake batter but it turned out PERFECT. I’m baking a few and freezing them for the Holidays. Simply Delicious!
Thanks Donna!
I enjoyed make it. Very easy to follow instructions. Thank you.
You’re welcome Belinda! Glad you enjoyed the cake.
Wow what an amazing cake. My entire family absolutely loved it. Followed your recipe exactly, wouldn’t change a thing. Can’t wait to make it for Thanksgiving.
So glad you enjoyed the cake Kerriann!