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.
I discovered this recipe last fall and have made it many time. Hands down this is THE BEST apple cake recipe !
Thank you Stephanie!
Moist, delicious and not too sweet. Smells heavenly while
Baking, and came out of Bundt pan perfectly🫶
Thanks Geralyn!
I haven’t baked it yet but can’t wait to do so. Can I also place apple slices on bottom of pan n then pour batter to bake?
Hi Wanda – We’ve never tried doing so. I suppose if your bundt pan is non-stick it could work, but I can’t guarantee the results – I’d be worried that the apple slices will stick to the pan.
My mother in law passed in 2021. She made THE BEST Apple Cake!! I baked this one and it tasted just like hers!! It was SO GOOD!! Thank you!!❤️
You’re very welcome – so glad you enjoyed the cake as much as your mother in law’s cake.
Can you add raisins
Sure Lois – you can add them if you’d like
It was delicious, but I found that it took a little longer than the recipe.
Thanks Barbara
Easy.great tasting..made a second one..delicious treat.
Thank you Janet!
Best apple cake ever
Thanks!
This is absolutely without a doubt the best Apple Cake ever! I live in Blue Ridge, GA. This is Apple country with many Apple houses and tourist come throughout the year especially starting the middle of August through the end of the fall season when the first seasonal apples are being picked until the last seasonal apples are picked on into the Christmas season as well. So we have access to all different kinds of apples as well as apple cookbooks and recipes. In my opinion, the Green Granny Smith is the best cooking apple and this is what I used in your recipe. Thank you for sharing this amazing recipe with us.
On a different note, I tried filling out the short form with my first name and email address to receive recipes, but “it’s broken.” Tells me to contact the administrator. Please, I would love to be added.
Thank you Brenda – so glad you enjoy the cake recipe! (And thank you for letting me know about the broken form – I will do some testing on my end to make sure everything is working correctly. Appreciate the head’s up.)
I used big muffin tins w/liners made great muffins.
Also mixed fresh peaches and blueberries in one batch instead of
Apples.
Great to know Bobbie – thank you!