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An apple cake recipe filled with apples, apple pie spice and so much more. This apple cake recipe is easy to make and a year-round favorite!

Apple Cake Recipe from addapinch.com


I love a fresh, homemade apple cake this time of year. But, in all reality, I love them anytime of year. They are simply hard to beat in my book. My apple cake recipe uses apples that I’ve grated on the largest hole of the box grater. I find that the grated apple mixes well in the cake batter to give you that fresh apple taste throughout. If you don’t have a box grater, you can simply dice your apple pieces really well and use those instead. But, if you can possibly, I definitely recommend grating your apples for this cake recipe. So good!

The spiced apple cider glaze that I used on this apple cake recipe is also one of those things that you can skip if for some reason you prefer to do so, but I highly, highly, highly recommend that you not skip it. It is out of this world!

Apple Cake Recipe from addapinch.com

Here’s my Apple Cake Recipe. I hope you love it!

5 from 2 votes

Apple Cake Recipe

Dessert 1 hr 10 mins

Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 1 hr
Servings 16 slices
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Author Robyn Stone | Add a Pinch
An apple cake recipe filled with apples, apple pie spice and so much more. This apple cake recipe is easy to make and a year-round favorite!

Ingredients  

  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons apple pie spice
  • 2 medium Granny Smith apples peeled and grated on large hole or box grater
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 cups buttermilk

For the Spiced Cider Glaze

Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 350º F. Spray bundt pan with nonstick baking spray. Set aside.
  • Cream together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add in eggs, one at a time and incorporate completely before adding another.
  • Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and apple pie spice in a medium bowl. Reduce speed of mixer to low and spoon flour into wet batter. Stir in grated apples, vanilla and buttermilk.
  • Pour cake batter into prepared bundt pan and place in oven. Bake 60 minutes or until skewer comes out clean when inserted in cake. You can follow my tips for how to tell when your cake is done.
  • Remove from oven and allow to sit for about 10 minutes. Turn out onto cake plate and stop with glaze or serve without.
  • Spiced Cider Glaze
  • Whisk ingredients together until smooth. Spoon over cake.

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Robyn Stone

Robyn Stone is a wife, mom, blogger, recipe developer, and cookbook author. Welcome to Add a Pinch where I share thousands of delicious, tested and perfected easy recipes that the whole family will love.

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  1. Can I use a 10 inch tube pan instead of a bundt pan for this recipe? It is just so much easier to get the cake out of the tube pan then a bundt pan.

  2. Hi Robin —
    If I wanted to bake this cake in a 9×13 pan, do I need to make any adjustments to the recipe?
    Thanks in advance, and Happy Thanksgiving!

    1. I haven’t made this cake in a 9×13 pan but you should be able to, Sandra. It may take a little longer to bake. Enjoy!

  3. Hi Robyn, I recently came across your website and have already made your peach cobbler twice, everyone in my family loves it. Wanted to make this cake but don’t want to use eggs. Do you think I could replace the eggs with applesauce? Also could I use oil instead of butter? Please let me know. Thank you.

    1. Arati, I have not substituted the eggs in this recipe but applesauce should work. I also have not used oil instead of butter but it should work.

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