Apple Cake Recipe
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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!
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!
Here’s my Apple Cake Recipe. I hope you love it!
Apple Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup (226 g) butter, softened
- 2 cups (426 g) brown sugar
- 3 large (150 g) eggs
- 3 cups (360 g) all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons (12 g) baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon (0.65 g) kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons (5.72 g) apple pie spice
- 2 medium (334 g) Granny Smith apples, peeled and grated on large hole or box grater
- 1 1/2 teaspoons (7 g) vanilla extract
- 2 cups (454 g) buttermilk
For the Spiced Cider Glaze
- 1 cup (113.5 g) confectioners’ sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon (0.71 g) apple pie spice
- 1 teaspoon (5.2 g) apple cider
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º F. Spray bundt pan with nonstick baking spray or brush with homemade cake pan release (cake goop). 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.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
Thank you so much! Busy pinning away!
A wonderful recipe! Thank you for sharing it! 🙂
Love your recipes but am I missing where I can pin them? It’s probably right in front of me but I can’t see it, lol.
Hi Sue,
Thanks so much for wanting to pin and share my recipes! I really appreciate it. We’d found that a previous sharing tool that we were using was causing some issues with the server which then made the website incredibly slow and not as user friendly. We deactivated it and did not have one while we tested to make sure that whatever we used did not cause any issues. We’ve now implemented a new one and you should be able to share to your favorite social media sites and pinterest again. Thank you so much for your patience! xo
This looks amazing!
Robyn,
My hubby would love this cake. Can’t wait to try it pinned.
Annamaria
Yum!! I can just imagine how amazing this must smell baking, and I love you addition of the apple glaze … sounds lovely
hi Robyn. Love your chocolate cake and cupcakes. Everyone I bake it. It’s gone fast.
can I bake thus in a round or square tin instead of a bundt pan?
thank you and so looking am forward to baking this.
Jacqui
Why can I not print your recipes?
I love a comforting slice of apple Bundt this time of year. Love your recipe, Robyn. There’d be no way I’d skip that apple cider glaze!! 🙂
Another nice recipe. Thanks Robyn.