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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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Best apple cake ever.easy too put together.Glaze also great.
Thank you Frances!
This cake is very good- it did take much longer to bake. I do question the 700+ calories per slice… that’s hard to believe
Thanks for your feedback Laura – we use a tool called Nutrifox to calculate our recipe nutritional information as courtesy but still encourage readers to validate on their end. I just reviewed the list of ingredients entered in Nutrifox and it matches the recipe, but it’s possible they have assigned an inaccurate value to one of the ingredients. Having said that, there is a lot of oil, butter, sugar, and heavy cream in the recipe…
Delicious, but falls apart!
Sorry to hear this Colleen – if you try the recipe again, could I suggest cutting the apples into smaller chunks or maybe add a lesser amount?
The best apple cake I’ve made. Gave some to my daughter and her girlfriend and she asked me to make a cake for her. Very moist and delicious. Will definitely make it again.
Thanks Miriam – so glad everyone enjoyed the cake!
Great cake
Thank you Zahida!
This cake is a frequent go to. I use one cup of brown sugar, one cup of granulated sugar, finely chopped pecans and extra cinnamon (of course). It is easy to make and share. The cake and the sauce are delicious.
Thank you so much!
It really is the best apple cake ever. One in the oven right now!
Thanks so much Colleen…I’m tempted to bake one myself now too! 🙂
So great! Thanks!! Easy to make gf.
Thanks Jackie!
If I cut the apples to small pieces will it stay together better. I have made this recipe three times and it the top stays in the bundle pan .
Sure – you can try that. Or perhaps, if it’s sticking, you might want to grease the pan a little more? Or – I once had a lightweight aluminum bundt pan that never released cleanly…once I switched to a heavier weight Nordic Ware pan, my sticking problems stopped. (Not sure if that could be the problem as well.)
Could I use two apples for this recipe
If that’s all you have…sure. It will just have fewer apples in the cake. The bake time might be less with fewer apples.