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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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Very quick and easy
should this refrigerated
Hi Virginia – With cream in the glaze, yes, I would suggest that you refrigerate it but bring it back to room temperature for serving.
I love this recipe and so does everyone that tastes it! My mother in law requests that I make this at least three times a year.
Thanks Haniyyah!
Everywhere I take this, people love it. Been baking this for several years and it is the BEST! Thank you!
You’re welcome Ivy!
I make this cake every year for my Wife it’s been our favorite cake for years now it is very moist and the nut and apples always reminds me of autumn
So glad you enjoy the cake recipe Todd!
So good. Making it for the second time today
Thanks LP!
Truly the best!
Thanks Judy! So glad you are enjoying the cake!
The recipe title is spot on!! This is the most delicious apple cake in the universe!!!
I don’t even do the glaze and it is perfect!
Thank you Tammie! So glad he enjoyed the cake!
I have made this Apple Cake recipe so many X it has become my own now. It IS LOVED by All!
Now my son, age 23, living in Manhattan, just called me to ask for the recipe. His apt is about as big as a cereal box, so I worried about his ability to sift and mix.. But he loves this cake and wants to take it to his Lab job for their Holiday Potluck. It’s a bunch of neuroscientists so I’ll be interested to hear how they’ll like this.
My son said he will experiment a few X before he has to take the best one to the Lab. I have sent him a sifter and a nice bundt pan ( hard to find those things in NYC, believe it or not) & his wonderful girlfriend has her Kitchen Aid stand mixer that she may let him use.. I will let all of you know how it all turns out..!
So glad to hear the recipe is a favorite Kristine – and thank you for passing it down! Our daughter is in her first year of college in NYC with a small kitchen too…I know how it can be hard to find somethings in the city – and if you DO find it, it’s SO expensive! Wishing your son success in baking his cake!