This easy apple cake recipe is a fluffy cake with delicious tender apple pieces. Indulge in a slice of pure autumnal bliss! This apple cake recipe is easy to make while being a deliciously moist fluffy cake with tender apple pieces. Our homemade apple cake will become a favorite in your house!
Why You Will Love This Easy Apple Cake
Apple cake is a favorite for so many reasons-
- Texture! its combination of tender juicy apples and fluffy moist cake- just like pumpkin cake, banana cake, or zucchini cake!
- Spice cake- it has mild spices giving you all the feels of comfort food. Just like apple pie but in CAKE!
- Top it how you like! Make a frosting, drizzle with caramel or just dust some powder sugar. Any way you eat it is perfection.
- Easy affordable ingredients that you can find all year round. Even though apples are in season in the fall they are easily accessible from your grocery stores 24-7.
Apple Cake Ingredients
- Apples: you can use your favorite apples! I used a mix of Granny Smith (tart) and honey crisp (sweet)
- Flour: All purpose flour is your base.
- Baking Powder & Baking Soda: help the cake rise.
- Vanilla & other spices: Cinnamon and vanilla add loads of flavor
- Oil: gives a moist crumb without weighing the cake down.
- Egg: room-temp eggs are best when baking
How to Make Easy Apple Spice Cake
- Peel and dice your apples.
- Toss them together with sugar and set aside.
- In a separate bowl add your flour, baking powder, soda, salt
- Add your eggs, vanilla and oil then mix.
- Your batter will be a little dry before you add your apples.
- Add in your apples and the batter will be a nice blend of batter and apple chunks.
- Place in a greased or lined pan.
- You can use a bundt cake pan or a 9x13 pan.
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
PRO TIP: When baking always make sure your oven is well preheated (At LEAST 15 minutes) and batter is room temperature.
Top Your Apple Cake
Apple Cake recipes all have different toppings. Our family recipe uses a cream cheese frosting, I've made a slight change by using brown butter in place of traditional butter. You can use either! You wont regret adding this cream cheese frosting on apple cake!
Make Your Cream Cheese Frosting
- Add your (brown) butter and cream cheese to a bowl and beat for 5 minutes.
- Gradually add in your powder sugar while beating your butter and beat.
- Continue adding powder sugar. Add in heavy cream and vanilla.
- Beat for 5 minutes until texture is smooth.
How To Store Apple Cake
Store leftover cake in the fridge in an airtight container. It will last 5 days in the fridge.
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Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
Apple Cake
- 4 cup peeled and grated Green Apples about 6-7 apples, Granny Smith are great!
- 2 cup Sugar
- 2 cup Flour all-purpose or whole wheat
- 1 ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 2 Eggs
- ¾ cup Vegetable Oil
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Glaze
- 4 oz. Cream Cheese
- ½ cup salted butter browned
- 5 cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 5-6 Tablespoons heavy cream can sub milk
Instructions
Apple Cake
- Peel and grate your apples. 4 loosely-packed cups takes about 6-7 apples depending on how large they are.
- Mix the apples with sugar.
- In a sperate bowl sift dry ingredients.
- Add in remaining ingredients including apples.
- Mix with a hand blender until combined.
- Pour into a greased bundt pan or 9x13 pan.
- Bake at 350 Degs F for 50 mins. Check at 40 mins for doneness.
- Allow to cool and frost.
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Glaze
- In a stand-up mixer using the whisk attachment, mix the cream cheese and butter on high until smooth and creamy, 2-3 minutes.
- Add in powder sugar and vanilla.
- Add milk in a tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is reached.
- Mix well.
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Erin V says
I love how the glaze just falls on the cake so beautifully!
Salma says
Tried it and it was simply delicious! Thank you
Molly Young says
This is, hands down, my favorite recipe on this site and maybe ever! My grandmother used to make this for me every year on my birthday but I never thought to learn how to make it! Now with this recipe I can have my favorite cake and feel a little closer to my grandmother when I'm baking it! Thank you so much!
Aubrey says
Oh your welcome! This is my grandmothers recipe as well so it holds some sentimental value for me as well. Funny how food can do that!
Kelly F says
Oh this looks so good!! I love cake type desserts!! I am definitely saving this recipe!!
Aubrey says
Thanks Kelly! I'm a cake fan as well :).. this one is a great one to mix up the normal cake routines.
Sue C says
This looks and sounds delicious! Printed it out and added it to the top of my "to bake" list...Thank You! :-)
Aubrey says
Oh thanks Sue! Hope you love it!!
Thalia @ butter and brioche says
This apple cake looks beyond delicious.. especially with all that dripping cream cheese glaze!
Jeanette says
Oh my Aubrey, this looks fabulous. I have a similar recipe but this looks like one to try for sure. Thank you!