Easy Apple Dapple Cake
One of the sweetest fall treat recipes, this easy Apple Dapple Cake has a caramel glaze and is packed full of fresh apples.
The combination of fresh apples in the cake with a warm glaze is hard to beat!
Apple Dapple Cake Recipe
This old fashioned Apple Dapple Cake is the perfect recipe for freshly picked apples.
Prep the batter and bake about an hour before ready to serve. Then mix up the caramel glaze and pour over just before serving. Your guests will enjoy this vintage apple cake recipe.
Picking and peeling apples is a great activity for young kids. I enjoy making this cake with my kids. We hook our apple peeler and corer onto our step stool outside to prep the apples. Working outside makes things more relaxed as clean-up is so much easier.
Ingredients Needed
- Baking apples like Jonathon, Cortland or Gold Rush
- Granulated Sugar
- Vegetable Oil
- All-Purpose Flour
- Baking Soda
- Cinnamon
- Walnuts are optional
- Brown Sugar
- Butter
- Milk
Another one of our favorite fall dessert recipes is Mountain Dew Apple Dumplings.
Delicious Apple Desserts
Our farmhouse table has been full of Amish inspired apple desserts this fall! Our Caramel Apple Pie is perfect with ice cream, the Caramel Apple Salad is a classic fall dessert, and our Crescent Roll Apple Pie satisfies our sweet tooth all year around.
The Fresh Apple Bundt Cake is one of the prettiest apple desserts our family makes. And Caramel Apple Bars are one of my favorite sweet apple desserts.
We hope you enjoy these apple desserts as much as we do!
How to Make Apple Dapple Cake
Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease and flour a 9 x 13 inch cake pan.
Combine sugar and eggs. Beat well. Add oil and cream mixture.
Slowly add flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Stir well. Gently fold in chunks of apples and nuts if desired.
Pour into cake pan and bake 40 – 50 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center of the cake.
We enjoy the cake served warm or at room temperature.
Store leftovers in the refrigerator since the cake is so moist it will spoil more quickly
What Type of Apples To Use
We prefer cooking or baking apples for this recipe. Those varieties are cortland, jonathon, suncrisp, honeycrisp, golden delicious, empire, melrose, cortland, rosalee or granny smith.
We have used eating apples and they work fine too.
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Easy Apple Dapple Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 4 cups apples diced
- 1 cup chopped walnuts optional
Glaze
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons milk
Instructions
Cake
- Heat oven to 325°F. Grease and flour 13"x9"x2" sheet cake pan. Combine sugar and eggs, beat well. Add oil, cream well.
- Add flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Stir well.
- Stir in apples and nuts.
- Pour into greased and floured cake pan. Bake 40 – 50 minutes. Cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Glaze
- Combine brown sugar, butter and milk in saucepan. Bring to a boil. Boil for 1 minute. Pour hot glaze over warm cake.
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Rate This Recipe Pin This RecipeRecipe originally shared on October 5, 2018 with updates made on August 30, 2024.
I just found your blog, and am going to make this cake, but I wanted to point out a typo in the glaze ingredients, and make sure I make it right. The recipe lists 1/2 cup brown sugar, then 4T brown sugar. I’m sure it should be 1/2 cup brown sugar, and 4T BUTTER, but could you please verify? Thanks!
Yes, you are correct! I’ll get that fixed right away. Thanks for the note 🙂