Apple Cake
Dessert
110 min
15 servings
408 kcal / serving

This Fresh Apple Cake recipe will be the highlight of your Fall season! It has a delicious moist spice cake with grated apples, topped with a simple caramel sauce.

Ingredients

  • 2 cupsgranulated sugar
  • 1 cupbutter (, room temperature)
  • 2 largeeggs
  • 6 smallmedium apples* (, grated with peel on (discard the core))
  • 2 teaspoonsbaking soda
  • 2 cupsall-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoonsalt
  • 2 teaspoonsground cinnamon
  • 1 ½ teaspoonsground cloves
  • 1 cupchopped walnuts (, optional)
  • 1 cupheavy whipping cream
  • ½ cuplight brown sugar
  • ½ cupgranulated sugar

Directions

  1. 1

    Easy Caramel Sauce (can be made ahead): Place all caramel sauce ingredients in a large glass bowl and stir to combine. Fill a saucepan with about 2 inches of water and bring it to a boil. Turn it to a low simmer. Set glass bowl over the saucepan (or use a double boiler) and simmer the sauce, stirring occasionally, for 1 hour. Pour into a jar and refrigerate for up to 2 weeks.

  2. 2

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

  3. 3

    Wet ingredients: In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until well blended. Add the eggs and mix well. Stir in the big pile of freshly grated apple.

  4. 4

    Dry ingredients: In a separate bowl, mix together the dry ingredients.

  5. 5

    Combine: Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix, just until incorporated.

  6. 6

    Bake in a greased 9x13 inch pan for 45-60 min, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool for at least 10 minutes before serving.

  7. 7

    Serve warm with caramel sauce and whipped cream or ice cream.