Bring This Magical Apple Cake Recipe To Life In Your Kitchen

Bake a delightful apple cake that stays moist, plus enjoy six large muffins from one simple recipe. Perfect for on-the-go!

Move over every apple cake recipe you’ve ever made because there’s a new apple cake in town.

My simple apple cake is unbelievably moist because I combined two everyday pantry ingredients, organic coconut oil and homemade applesauce.

The best part about this recipe is that it bakes a thick apple cake and six large muffins in one batch, perfect for those on the go or for the kids.

If you’re looking for a dessert to bring to a backyard summer party, this is a wonderful treat because you won’t have to worry about the frosting melting under the sun.

Related: Homemade Cherry Rhubarb Apple Sauce

I enjoyed the muffins at work for breakfast or a snack when I didn’t have time to prepare something at home because I was running late.

Even our son, who is particular about the muffins he eats, devoured this apple cake and asked for seconds using baby sign language that we taught him as a baby.

We only give him little pieces cut up, but he’s our little taste-tester, so if it passes by junior, you know it’s a winning recipe.

Bakery Style Apple Cake

Related: Bakery Style Tim Horton’s Chocolate Chip Muffins

This has to be one of the best cake recipes I’ve ever created with fruit, which I will repeat, mainly if I feed a big crowd of hungry cake lovers.

Our son is just like any other kid; one minute, they loves to eat something, and the next, it’s not on their list of good foods unless it’s a sweet or salty treat.

Our son fell in love with apples for about a day after we bought a few, but that was the end of that journey.

We’re sure he will return to the apple path because of his love for this apple cake.

Since my wife doesn’t eat fruit and I can’t keep up with it all, I needed to use the extra McIntosh apples we had in the refrigerator.

Apple Cake Made With Applesauce

Related: Types of Ontario Apples – All About Apples

Making applesauce is very simple, and for this recipe, I needed 2 cups of spiced applesauce, so I used eight apples, peeled and cubed, 1/2 cup of water, two tablespoons of cinnamon, 1/3 cup of sugar, and boiled it down until it was soft.

I removed our fancy $20 hand-blender and smoothed it until it was creamy.

It takes about 20 minutes from start to finish, and then you should let it cool to use in this recipe.

If you don’t fancy making homemade apple sauce, you can certainly buy it pre-made at the grocery store.

Your choice is sweetened or unsweetened, and since this is a sweet apple cake, you can opt for the unsweetened to cut back on sugar if you’d like.

Easy Apple Desserts

This moist apple cake recipe was inspired by a fresh recipe, “Caramel Apple Cake with Apple Cider Frosting,” I found at Country Pleasures Blog.

Sue found her apple cake recipe from the blog, A Hint Of Honey.

I took parts of the recipe to incorporate into mine, as I was looking for inspiration, although the original is just as excellent.

The batter for my cake includes coconut oil and whipped cream with different measurements.

How To Make Homemade Buttermilk

Easy!

Instead of using wheat flour, I opted for all-purpose flour and made homemade buttermilk with 2% milk and two tablespoons of white vinegar (let sit after stirring for about 20 minutes until curdled)

If you don’t have the caramel on hand, it’s simple to make ahead and cool for this recipe.

Food Network chef Ree Drummond has an easy caramel sauce that yields 1.5 cups, which is excellent for this recipe, as you can use the extra half cup for topping if you like.

Easy Glaze For Your Apple Cake

I created a glaze frosting for the top of the apple cake using boiled condensed milk in the can to darken it up, and raisins soaked in butter rum extract and water for 30 minutes to plump them up.

Whenever I create a recipe, I hope for the best because you don’t know how it will turn out.

Measurements for baking must be precise, and although I know many of us get lucky at times, there are those situations where a recipe will flop.

The apple cake turned out spectacular; however, I had too much batter for my 9×11 cake pan, which meant I also made six large apple cake muffins.

If you have a larger cake pan and want to experiment with the baking time, go for it.

Otherwise, kill two birds with one stone and make a cake and muffins with this apple cake recipe.

Baking The Apple Cake

I baked the cake in the oven at 350 degrees for about 30-35 minutes.

I always test with a toothpick to ensure it’s clean before removing cakes or muffins from the oven.

Once you take the cake from the oven, poke holes in the top with a skewer or fork and pour the boiled, heated condensed milk over the top, along with a sprinkle of cinnamon and the butter rum-soaked raisins.

Once cool, you can cut into squares, set on parchment paper in an air-tight container, and freeze up to 3 months.

Take it out piece by piece to thaw, and it will take you back to the moment it came fresh from the oven and cooled.

I was shocked, and every time I eat a piece of the apple cake, I’m still amazed that it’s so moist and never dry!! Yep, that’s magic if you’re a cake baker.

How to make Magically Moist Apple Cake

Magically Moist Apple Cake with Butter Rum Raisin Glaze

• Recipe Type: Dessert
• Author: Mr.CBB
• Prep time: 30 mins
• Cook time: 35 mins
• Total time: 1 hour 5 mins
• Serves: 10

This apple cake magically stays moist and fresh even after you freeze and defrost it. A slice of this apple cake paired with coffee, tea, or a cold glass of milk makes the perfect snack or dessert.

Ingredients

• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 tbsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup of coconut oil heated in a microwave to a liquid
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
• 2 cups spiced apple sauce, see recipe in the blog post above
• 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup homemade or store-bought caramel
• 3 large eggs, room temp
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk, see quick recipe in the blog post
• 1 tablespoon whipping cream
• Butter Rum Raisin Glaze
• 1 can condensed milk
• 1 cup raisins
• 1/3 cup warm water
• 2-4 drops of butter rum extract

Pre-Instructions

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
2. Grease a 9×11 cake pan and six large muffin pans or 2- 9-inch cake pans
3. This recipe will make a 9×11 cake AND 6 large muffins, both baked for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Instructions

1. Add the buttermilk to a measuring cup, and add two tablespoons of white vinegar. Let it sit for 10 minutes or until curdled. Stir and you’re ready to use it.
2. Note: If you’re making homemade caramel, see the recipe link in the post for Ree Drummond’s easy caramel sauce, which makes 1-1/2 cups of caramel, although you only need 1 cup for this recipe. Otherwise, store-bought caramel is fine.
3. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a mixing bowl
4. In a stand mixer, add the coconut oil, vegetable oil, and brown sugar, and mix.
5. Add the homemade apple sauce, which you can have sweetened or unsweetened.
6. Add the caramel, vanilla extract, and mix for about 50 seconds
7. Add the eggs one at a time until combined
8. Add the buttermilk and whipping cream, then mix until combined
9. Little by little, add to your dry mixture that you sifted earlier until combined
10. Pour into the cake pan and muffin pan, or round pans
11. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes. I like to check on my cakes around the 25-minute mark and again at 5-minute intervals.
12. Once it comes from the oven, poke holes with a skewer on top of the cake, pour warmed can of condensed milk over the top, sprinkle with the butter rum raisins, and add a bit of cinnamon.
13. Cool, then cut into squares, add whipping cream on top, more caramel sauce, or eat it as is!

Apple Cake Serving Suggestion

Serve the apple cake as is, or I like to top it with half-and-half or whipping cream.

Add this to your recipes for apple desserts, so you’ll make this apple cake the next time you have a few extra apples waiting to be used up.

Even when defrosted, the apple cake is just as moist as fresh from the oven.

Magic apple cake is more like it!! The best apple cake recipe in the world is right here.

Enjoy.
Mr.CBBSave