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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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I’ve make this cake many times exactly as the recipe is. Delicious. It always gets raves and there’s never a crump left. I don’t use the glaze. It’s great as it is.
Thank you De!
You have given us an excellent apple cake recipe. It is moist and delicious. Your directions were clear and easy to follow. I have enjoyed making this recipe in the fall, and on snowy days when homemade bakery is a perfect accompaniment to a warm mug of coffee or cocoa.
Thanks Sharon!
Easy to follow instructions came out beautiful.Cant wait to try it!
Thanks Kathy!
I made this many times and it one of my favorite cakes I like to put the glaze on while the cake is still kinda hot so it absorbs into it yummy, yummy to the tummy my favorite apple to use is McIntosh for it
Thanks Ronnie!
I gave it a ten very good taste, moist,it’s even better the next three days
Thanks Mary!
Best Apple cake recipe. Everyone loved it for Thanksgiving and I’m making again for Xmas. Thank you!!!
You’re very welcome Kathy! Merry Christmas!
I have been looking for this recipe I made this cake a year ago for two different people and they wanted it again. Best apple cake ever I second that
Thank you Karen!
Could you add rum to this cake? if yes, how much? I would like just a taste of rum, not enough to overpower the apples though.
We’ve never tried adding rum ourselves so I’d just be guessing at quantities. Just be careful that you don’t add so much extra liquid that you change the batter wetness. Rum extract might be a better option.
This is a go to recipe to use up extra apples. I add dark rum to the mixture and the glaze. Poke holes in the Bundt cake and brush the glaze on while the cake is warm. Nothing gets wasted with this cake. Delish!
Great suggestions Lisa!
Does the cake need to be refrigerated after baking?
It’s fine to keep at room temperature overnight but if you still have leftovers after a day or so we refrigerate our cake.