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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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Love this recipe!
Thank you Shirley!
One of the best recipes for apples and pears if you have an abundance of each or you’re trying to do something with them before they go bad. I also use 1 cup of butter and 1/2 cup of oil for better flavor. I have been asked to make this recipe over and over. Thank you.
Thanks Tasha – just note that so much butter in place of oil is changing the finished texture of the cake. Since butter is solid when cold, while oil is a liquid even when cold – your cake is probably more dense unless you warm it a bit for serving. Hope that helps!
This Is a delicious cake!!! I have been making it since 2020. My husband often request that I make it. I have made it with regular sugar only, and also added lemon and coconut flavoring. Thanks for sharing this recipe
Thanks Linda!
Made this cake for family breakfast and everyone loved it. Nice recipe will use this from now on for the family treat.
Thanks Josephine -So glad everyone enjoyed the cake!
I’ve made this a couple of times and even though I’m not really experienced when it comes to banking, it turned out to be the most delicious cake I’ve ever had! My partner’s colleagues at work and his family really loved it too. Highly recommend this recipe. Just make sure to let the caramel sauce cool down before pouring it on the cake! When I rushed it, it was a bit too thin and didn’t stay on the cake.
Thanks for the suggestion Sandra! Glad the recipe is a hit!
Have made this several times…our fav cake..lots of compliments. The glaze perfects it.
Thanks Gail!
Hi. Can this cake be made in advance and frozen. If so, any directions for this? Should I wait to do the glaze after defrosted? Thanks. My three year old granddaughter insists on having an apple cake for her birthday! Sounds like a winner
Hi Susan – Yes, you can freeze it and I agree – add more of the glaze after it has thawed. (You might consider adding some glaze while the cake is still warm out of the oven so it seeps in as the cake cools.) Hope that helps!
My favorite cake probably ever. I’m almost 77 yrs old. I love cakes. This is so special. Happy Resurrection Easter Day. 🙂
Thank you Sharon!
Delicious! I didnt have enough apples so I added a bannana. Everyone enjoyed this cake.
Thanks for the suggestion Alice!
Moist and delicious! Love this cake all year round!
Thanks Cindy!