Apple Coffee Cake
This Apple Coffee Cake is a perfect cake for brunch, dessert or snacking! A delicious vanilla cake with cinnamon apple flavours.
A few years ago when my babies were teeny tiny, I used to get together with friends so us moms could visit each other with our babies. Those days were some of my favourite times…I miss them. Sigh. One of the things we always used to do when we got together was bake something when it was our time to host. Then we’d eat it with a hot cup of coffee…so good! We had a lot of delicious baking during those days, but there was one recipe in particular that I loved, and it was this Apple Coffee Cake that an old friend made. I loved it then, and now it’s a family favourite.
About this apple cake:
This is a soft vanilla cake with chopped apples and cinnamon, and it’s baked in a Bundt pan. I love using Bundt pans because the cakes look so pretty on their own and don’t need any glaze or frosting drizzle. But you can also bake this cake in a 9 x 13 pan.
No seriously, the dog ate my cake.
For Thanksgiving this year I decided to make this Apple Coffee Cake and take it home to my parents. So on the day we planned to travel, I made this cake and the first one I made I measured the butter wrong. Seriously, how many times have I baked a cake?! But I accidentally got distracted, as I sometimes do, and I doubled the butter. So the cake came out a gooey buttery mess, and I had to throw it out. Throwing food out pains me. Pains me. But there was no salvaging it. So luckily, I had time left to bake another cake before we had to go, and this one turned out beautifully. I snapped some pictures so I could update this post, and we set out to my parents for Thanksgiving.
We stopped halfway through our drive to grab some dinner, and guess what I did? I left the cake in the truck with our pup Molly. Yes, yes I did. I left a fresh, tasty and delicious apple cake in the truck with a dog. But in fairness…I don’t often travel with cakes so I wasn’t thinking straight? I’ll go with that. You can guess what happened. Yep. She ate 3/4 of my lovingly made Apple Bundt Cake. Insert annoyed emoji here. This cake was just not meant to be I guess.
But we’ll just remember that it looked like this mmmkay? Anyway, you should make it. It’s a really delicious cake, I promise.
Apple Coffee Cake Recipe Tips:
- APPLES: You can use any type of fresh apples: Granny Smith apples, McIntosh, Gala…
- PAN: I like to use a 10-12 cup Bundt pan for this cake. But you can also use a 9×13 cake pan.
- STORAGE: Keep in an airtight container on the counter or in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
- VARIATION: If you love nuts feel free to add 1/4 cup chopped nuts like pecans or walnuts to the apple mixture.
- SERVING SUGGESTION: This cake is delicious with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Apple Coffee Cake
This Apple Coffee Cake is a delicious cake for dessert, coffee dates with friends, or as a snacking cake! Delicious vanilla and apple flavours!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 12 servings 1x
- Category: Cake
- Method: Baking
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup milk (2% or whole milk)
- 3 apples (peeled and chopped)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- Prepare a Bundt pan. You can either flour and butter the pan, or use a flour spray (this is my preferred method). Set aside.
- In a bowl combine the chopped apples, cinnamon and brown sugar. Let the mixture sit while you combine the rest of the ingredients. Remember to stir it before adding it to the baking pan.
- Using a stand mixer on medium speed, cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs, one at a time.
- Then add the vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour and baking powder.
- To the butter mix, add 1/3 of the flour mixture, then 1/2 of the milk. Repeat until all of the ingredients are combined.
- Place large spoonfuls of the cake batter around the bottom of the pan, followed with the apple mixture, and repeat until finished.
- Bake for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
- Let cool for about 10 minutes in the pan, then turn the cake out onto a plate, and sprinkle with sugar.
Keywords: apple cake, apple coffee cake
More Apple Recipes
Chocolate bar marzipan jujubes jelly-o carrot cake caramels. Tootsie roll cookie jujubes powder icing lemon drops. Pastry brownie topping oat cake chocolate cake jelly candy gingerbread tart.
Have a delicious day!
This post was originally published in Jan 2011, but I recently updated the post with new pictures!
Yum, that ring of apples in the middle would be my favorite part of this cake. It looks super. I have a linky party on my blog every week called “Sweets for a Saturday” and I’d like to invite you to stop by this weekend and link this up.
um, you need to make that when we come for a visit in the summer. xxo Sav
I love your blog and found it off my Prairie Story Recipe Swap. Thank you for sharing… and please come pick up your award! 😉 ~Alison @ Prairie Story
Sav – I will definitely make this for you!!
J
Just stopping by from Sweets for Saturday. This coffee cake looks delicious!
Your dish really caught my eye from Sweets for a Saturday. I would have this cake on any day..:)
Wow! What I wouldn’t give to have a big fat slice of that in front of me right now – or at least tomorrow morning to have with my coffee! I just love apple cake and this looks amazing.
Thank you for sharing this @ It’s a Keeper – I’m so glad I got to see it!
is it possible to make it not in a bundt pan?
Hi Anonymous! I’ve never made it any other way, but if I were to try a different pan, I would use a sheet pan (9×13), and clump the batter and fruit randomly over it. And bake it a little less timewise. Just watch it during the baking process… Good luck!
Jo-Anna
Thanks Jo-Anna, I really need to get a sheet cake pan. I currently only have a loaf tin and a square brownie pan…don’t think either of those will work!
Yum! This looks perfect to serve when having a friend over to catch up… thanks for sharing!
-Rachel
I love fresh apple cake and this one looks fantastic. I have a go-to recipe that gets a hot glaze on it once it comes out of the oven but yours might be even better. 🙂
Love this fresh apple cake!
For some strange reason, taking a cake to your mom’s house for Thanksgiving was not meant to be. It looked yummy. As for your baby, you seemed a lot calmer than I would be. True, he was just being a dog. Left alone with a yummy cake. I guess he said, “they are eating, why don’t I do the same, after all, there sits lunch”. LOL!
It really wasn’t meant to be! What a funny moment!!
The amount of milk seems insanely high. I just tried this and after wrestling it out of the bundt pan, it completely crumbled in a damp mess, and the crust was overly browned. Plus the taste was bland and eggy.
I only comment because I used to have a similar recipe that had a much firmer batter that was my easy go to coffee cake. I thought this was it, but clearly not. I think the milk could have been entirely omitted.
How strange. I have made this recipe countless times, with the same amount of milk, and have never had any problems with it. Not sure what could have gone wrong with your cake.
I adapted this recipe to my 6 cup bundt pan by halving all th ingredients. It came out perfect except I think I should have made the larger cake, LOL. My husband and I were going back for seconds. I also used a little apple pie fillling instead of the filling in the original recipe. It’s a keeeper.
What type of. flour did you use…all purpose or self rising?
I’m sure they’re talking about “all-purpose”!!!!
Excellent coffee cake, I added extra apple, a little less sugar, cooked it longer, very yummy
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So easy to make and so good. Everyone loved it. Will make it many more times. Thank you
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