Fresh Apple Cake
This Fresh Apple Cake recipe is so moist and yummy, and the fresh apples add so much juiciness and freshness! Great as coffee or tea cake. Drizzle with the homemade vanilla custard sauce for a more formal dessert. Perfect as part of the Christmas breakfast or brunch menu.
I walk my little boy William to school every day, and we are grateful that the school is less than a 5-minute walk. In our usual route, I pass through our neighbor’s front yard with a big Apple tree.
One day in October I was walking back from school, I saw our neighbor picking up some apples that came from the tree. At this time, she has placed a sign by the tree which asks anyone who happens to pass by to pick a bag of apples.
She kindly gave me a huge bag of Apples, which I excitedly accepted. She told me her tree drops about 50-70 apples a day! She was quite desperate to give these apples away.
She said I could eat the apples if I prefer and just use them for baking. I happily thanked our kind neighbor and promised her I wouldn’t waste the apples.
The apples turned out to be quite good and sweet. I have tried them and loved the taste. With the extras, naturally, I had to make some Fresh Apple Cake!
Instead of just adding them on top of the cake in my other apple recipe, I mixed the Apples with the cake batter, added some spices for flavor, and pecans for extra crunch!
It came out super-moist and truly yummy! It’s perfect on its own, but you can certainly dress it up with a delicious smothering of custard sauce.
I think the custard sauce perfectly complements the spiced apple cake, but if you ask my hubby – it’s even better if you combine ice cream with custard! Have it your way! 🙂
If you want to make the Vanilla Custard sauce, the recipe is here.
Fresh Apple Cake with Vanilla Custard Sauce
Ingredients
- 4-5 Granny Smith Apples, chopped peeled or unpeeled
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup White Sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground Nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground Cloves, (optional)
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 3 cups all-purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 3 Eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup Buttermilk
- 1/4 cup neutral-flavored Oil, like vegetable oil
- 1 cup Pecans or Walnuts, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine the chopped apples, brown and white sugar, spices, salt, flour, baking soda, eggs, buttermilk, oil, and nuts in a large bowl in the order listed. Mix just until there’s no more wisp of flour.
- Spoon into an ungreased non-stick 9×13 pan. Bake for about 35-40 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Serve warm or at room temperature with either ice cream or custard (like Bird’s) or a delicious homemade custard sauce. Get the recipe for an easy and tasty homemade vanilla custard here or see notes below.
Notes
Nutrition
Last updated on November 29th, 2024 at 07:20 pm
What a delicious, moist apple cake! The vanilla custard sauce on top absolutely makes this one of the most delightful desserts we’ve made. So happy to have this recipe going straight into apple season!
I love fruit-based cakes and this looks so tempting. With custard sauce, this apple cake must have tasted heavenly.
I’ve been meaning to make an apple cake and this recipe looks perfect! It looks amazing and the custard adds even more flavor. I need to make this as a dessert for my family today as I have all the ingredients. Thank you for sharing this recipe!
This looks delicious, and is the sort of relatively-simple recipe I’m always hoping to find just as we are about to get into apple season. I can’t wait!
I love baking with fresh apples. This cake looks so good and I bet with that custard it tastes amazing.
Love the cake flavor! Took almost an hour to come out clean on my knife? Still pretty dense textured? Had whipped cream with it and everyone loved it!
Can’t beat a great apple cake like this! I love that you can eat as a cake or as a pudding. My husband will love this.
Loved the tender crumb of this cake and all the apples in it!
I loved this apple cake, so quick to make and delicious!
Cake with fresh apples is definitely the best! I’m going to bake this cake on Sunday. It looks moist and perfectly flavored. Yum!
This is such an amazing cake recipe!! I love that you used fresh apples!
I have everything I need for this dish, can’t wait to make it this weekend!
Shouldn’t I grease the pan if it’s not non stick?
There’s enough moisture in the cake that it was fine without it but feel free to grease the baking dish ahead if you like. It won’t affect the taste so you can certainly do it.