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Easy and with simple ingredients, this apple cake is moist and delicious – the perfect way to use up apples. Apples are affordable and always a great fruit to make a dessert with. The brown sugar glaze adds a layer of decadence and should not be skipped!
Brown Sugar Glazed Apple Cake
Apple cake is soft and sweet and packed full of chunks of tender apple. Lightly spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves gives the traditional apple pie taste to a tender cake. This cake is perfect for a family gathering or a BBQ as it slices up to at least 20 portions. Your friends and family will love it! Don’t forget to top this cake with my favorite Brown Sugar Icing Glaze, it is a match made in heaven!
It’s All About the Apples
Using shredded and chopped apples makes this cake absolutely loaded with apples but bakes up perfectly and slices like a dessert dream. It’s the perfect combination.
You can use any apples that you prefer in this recipe, just make sure to peel them. Granny Smith apples will add a tang to the cake, and sweet apples of course will be sweeter.
Ingredients
A delicious apple cake is perfect way to be able to use up any extra apples you may have. This recipe uses basic ingredients that you have in your cupboard.
- butter softened
- sugar
- brown sugar
- large eggs
- vanilla
- all purpose flour
- baking powder
- baking soda
- cinnamon
- nutmeg
- ground cloves
- salt
- shredded peeled apples about 3 medium apples
- diced peeled apples
- chopped pecans or walnuts
- one batch brown sugar icing glaze
How to Make Brown Sugar Glazed Apple Cake
- Beat butter and sugar with electric mixer or a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, on medium speed until light and fluffy.
- Add in the eggs, one at a time, until fully incorporated. Stir in vanilla.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Mix into the butter mixture until just combined.
- Stir in the apples and walnuts. Spoon into the prepared pan, tapping the bottom of the pan on the counter to release any air bubbles.
- Bake 35 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and place on a baking rack to cool.
- Prepare the brown sugar icing glaze (see notes) then swirl over the top of the cake. Slice once the icing has set.
How to Store This Cake
Brown Sugar Glazed Apple Cake is easily stored at room temperature in a closed container for up to 5 days. We loved this cake with the added chunks of apple making this cake tender and extra moist. The icing pairs well as it has a light caramel flavor that pairs perfect with apples!
Happy Cooking
Love,
Karlynn
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Brown Sugar Glazed Apple Cake
- Prep Time
- 20 minutes
- Cook Time
- 35 minutes
- Course
- Dessert
- Cuisine
- American
- Servings
- 20 slices
- Calories
- 205
- Author
- Karlynn Johnston
Ingredients
- ¾ cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups shredded peeled apples about 3 medium apples
- 1 cup diced peeled apples
- ½ cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- one batch brown sugar icing glaze
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spray a 9×13 baking pan and set aside.
- In large bowl, beat butter and sugar with electric mixer or a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, on medium speed until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until fully incorporated.
- Stir in the vanilla.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Mix into the butter mixture until just combined.
- Stir in the apples and walnuts. Spoon into the prepared pan, tapping the bottom of the pan on the counter to release any air bubbles.
- Bake 35 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
- Remove the oven and place on a baking rack to cool.
- Prepare the brown sugar icing glaze (see notes) then swirl over the top of the cake. Slice once the icing has set.
- Keep stored at room temperature in a closed container for up to 5 days.
Recipe Notes
- Prepare the brown sugar icing glaze thicker than a glaze that you drizzle, so that you can spread it over the cake like a frosting.
Nutrition Information
All calories and info are based on a third party calculator and are only an estimate. Actual nutritional info will vary with brands used, your measuring methods, portion sizes and more.
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Karlynn Johnston says
I sure do, the link is in the recipe card, and there is also a link in the post to it!
Mary says
How do you make the glaze
Anna says
Where is the recipe for the glaze?
Karlynn Johnston says
there is a link in the post to it, and there is also a link in the ingredient cart to click!
Mona Knowlton says
Do you have a brown sugar glaze recipe please