Apple Dapple Cake

Apple Dapple Cake

from southernliving.com
Dessert
245 min
10 servings

This perfectly spiced apple dapple cake features warm, nutty notes and a toffee-like caramel sauce. Serve this old-fashioned apple cake at your next potluck or party, and everyone will be so glad to see it once again.

Ingredients

  • baking spray with flour
  • 3 cups(about 12 3/4 oz.) all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp.ground cinnamon
  • 1 ½ tsp.kosher salt
  • 1 tsp.baking powder
  • ½ tsp.baking soda
  • ½ tsp.ground nutmeg
  • 2 cupsgranulated sugar
  • 1 ½ cupscanola oil
  • 1 tbsp.vanilla extract
  • 3 largeeggs
  • 3 largegala apples, peeled, cored, and finely chopped into 1/4-in. pieces (about 3 1/2 cups)
  • 1 cuptoasted chopped pecans
  • 1 cuppacked light brown sugar
  • ¾ cupunsalted butter, softened
  • ¼ cupheavy whipping cream
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Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 12-cup Bundt pan with baking spray. Whisk together flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and nutmeg in a medium bowl until combined.

  2. 2

    Stir together sugar, oil, vanilla, and eggs in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until lightened in color, 2 to 3 minutes.

  3. 3

    Gradually add flour mixture to egg mixture, beating on low speed until just combined and no flour streaks remain, 2 to 3 minutes.

  4. 4

    Fold apples and pecans into batter until evenly distributed.

  5. 5

    Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan, and spread evenly using a small spatula.

  6. 6

    Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted into center of Cake comes out clean, 1 hour, 10 minutes to 1 hour, 15 minutes. Remove from oven; let Cake cool in Bundt pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.

  7. 7

    Stir together brown sugar, butter, cream, and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium, whisking constantly. Boil 2 additional minutes, and remove from heat.

  8. 8

    Using a wooden skewer, poke holes all over top of warm Cake in Bundt pan. Pour about 3/4 cup Caramel Glaze over Cake. Let Cake stand 15 minutes. Cover remaining Caramel Glaze in saucepan with a lid or aluminum foil, and set aside.

  9. 9

    Invert Cake onto wire rack; remove Bundt pan, and let Cake cool completely, about 2 hours.

  10. 10

    Uncover remaining Caramel Glaze in saucepan, and cook over low, stirring constantly, until just warmed through and smooth, about 1 minute. Drizzle remaining Caramel Glaze over Cake. Cover and store Cake at room temperature for up to 3 days.