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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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Yummy
Thanks!
Love this recipe, been making this for over 10 years. The same recipe that i use is called Apple Dapple Cake. Took it to work all the time and everyone loved how moist it was and all the delicious flavors. My husband would take it to work also and always got requests to be brought in again.. Absolutely Fantastic recipe, I make it a lot but Especially in the Fall. It also makes the house smell yummy. This is a REALLY GREAT RECIPE! Now, i must make one. :):)
You’re right Maureen – we make our Apple Dapple recipe as a sheet cake here: https://www.afamilyfeast.com/apple-dapple-cake/ (but it’s the same recipe!)
My first attempt at making this cake and I left the apples in 2″ chunks. I should have watched the video first, which show a lot fewer apples sliced pretty thin. I barely had enough batter to cover. It’s in the oven now, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Thanks for the feedback Sue – 2″ chunks are very large…I’d suggest smaller chunks than that…maybe 1/2″ to 3/4″ in size.
This was delicious!!!
Thank you Sue!
I wonder what a teaspoon of calvados in the glaze would be like
Great suggestion John – if you enjoy the flavor of that liqueur, I think it would be a delicious addition!
I’m not good at baking but this cake was perfetto. Doing it again tonight
So glad you had success with the recipe John!
Help? How thick is this recipe supposed to be?
It’s a very thick batter!
Wow what a wonderful treat a definite go-to show stopper
Thank you!
Have made this cake several times now andNEVER a complaint. Adults and children love it.
Thank you John!
Yes I made this fabulous cake but I used pecans instead of walnuts. Best ever!!
Love that idea Shelia!