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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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Loved it every time. Always a hit with guests
Thank you Ann!
I never leave reviews, but this cake is worthy of one! Delicious! The name says it all. I have made it several x and only one x did the bundt pan fail-no one noticed it was that good.
Thank you Cactus!
It truly os the best apple cake I’ve ever eaten. I will definitely bake this cake again and again.
Thanks Marie – so glad you enjoy the cake!
Do you sift the flour before measuring 3 cups?
No – when we measure flour for any baking recipe we spoon it into the measuring cup, then level it, rather than scooping out directly from the canister of flour – that can pack it down a bit. Hope that helps.
This is a favorite at our church functions. I use Munk Fruit as my sweetness. It is great for those that are diabetic.
Thanks Carolyn! Glad you were able to adapt the recipe for lower sugar.
I cooked dinner for a couple of friends last night.
They brought the dessert: The Best Apple Cake Ever.
And it was!!! It looked like your pictures, and was
worthy of the time to write this. Just delightful.
Thank you so much Roslyn! We appreciate it!
Love the recipe, but do you have a diabetic friendly one.
No…I’m sorry we don’t. I’d suggest checking out a website called All Day I Dream About Food. The author is a diabetic herself and shares all low carb, keto, and diabetic friendly recipes including desserts. Hope that helps!
I put pecans in instead of walnuts everyone loved it
Thanks Susan!
Excellent! Wanted to make this a little more calorie friendly so I used 1 C applesauce and 1/2 C veg oil instead. Used the zest and juice of 1 lemon and added an extra apple. Baked it in a 9×11 glass pan and just kept an eye on it. It’s still very moist but if you aren’t used to using applesauce the texture may be a little too cakey for you. I personally love it. Give it a try!
Thanks Lizzy
Awesome cake – Super moist
Didn’t even need the glaze,
but I’m sure I’ll try one of these days.
Thank you Andrew!