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🍎 Apple Cake

Apple Cake

🍽 Serves ⏲ Total Time
12 1.70 hours

🧂 Ingredients - Cake

  • 🍞 2.5 cups (313 g) all-purpose flour
  • 🌰 2 tsp baking powder
  • 🌰 0.75 tsp baking soda
  • 🧂 0.5 tsp salt
  • 🌰 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 🌰 0.5 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 🍠 0.25 tsp ground ginger
  • 🌰 0.25 tsp ground allspice
  • 💧 1 cup (240 g) vegetable oil
  • 🍬 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
  • 🍬 0.5 cup (100 g) light or dark brown sugar (packed)
  • 🍎 1 cup (240 g) unsweetened applesauce
  • 🥚 4 large (200 g) eggs
  • 🎴 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 🍊 2 Tbsp (30 g) orange juice
  • 🍎 3 cups (360 g) apples (peeled & chopped into ½-inch chunks)

🧂 Ingredients - Glaze (Optional)

  • 🧈 0.25 cup (56 g) unsalted butter
  • 🍬 1 cup (200 g) light or dark brown sugar (packed)
  • 🥛 0.5 cup (120 g) heavy whipping cream
  • 🧂 Small pinch salt
  • 🍬 0.5 cup (60 g) confectioner’s sugar (sifted)

🍳 Cookware

  • 🍪 1 9×13-inch baking pan
  • 🥣 1 large bowl
  • 🥣 1 medium bowl
  • 🗑 1 wire rack
  • 📄 1 aluminum foil
  • 🥘 1 saucepan

📝 Instructions

Step 1

Prep: Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C) and grease a 9×13-inch baking pan.

Step 2

Mix Dry Ingredients: In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice. Set aside.

Step 3

Mix Wet Ingredients: In a medium bowl, whisk the oil, granulated sugar, brown sugar, applesauce, eggs, vanilla extract, and orange juice.

Step 4

Combine: Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and whisk until combined. Fold in the chopped apples.

Step 5

Bake: Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan. Bake for 45–50 minutes. Around the 30-minute mark, loosely tent the pan with aluminum foil to prevent over-browning. The cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Step 6

Cool: Remove from the oven and set on a wire rack to cool for at least 30 minutes.

Step 7

Topping (Optional): - Dusting: Right before serving, dust with 2 Tablespoons (15g) of confectioners’ sugar. - Glaze: Combine butter, brown sugar, heavy cream, and salt in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly until butter melts, then bring to a rapid boil for 1 minute. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 minute. Remove from heat and whisk in the sifted confectioners’ sugar. Let the glaze cool and thicken for 20 minutes before spooning over the cake.

Step 8

Serve: Serve warm or at room temperature. Store leftovers at room temperature for 2 days or refrigerated for up to 5 days.

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