Spicy apple bundt cake made with chopped fresh apples, grated coconut, and walnuts or pecans, topped with a sugar glaze. This apple cake is delicious!
Fresh Apple Cake
When it’s apple season here in Northern California, we are picking and processing daily from our trees (3 trees, 15 varieties). Of the many apple recipes we have on the site, this fresh apple cake is one of my favorites.
You simply cannot go wrong with this apple cake! It uses three whole cups of chopped, peeled apples. We like to use a variety of apples for baking—Granny Smith, Gravenstein, Fuji, Jonagold. That way you get more complex flavors from the various apples in the cake.
Apple Bundt Cake Secret Ingredient
The secret ingredient for this cake, that you wouldn’t expect to find in an apple cake, is … wait for it….
…coconut!
We add a cup of sweetened, shredded coconut to the apple cake batter, which not only makes this apple bundt cake more moist, it adds wonderful texture as well.
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Best Fresh Apple Bundt Cake Recipe
- Prep time: 20 minutes
- Cook time: 1 hour
- Yield: Serves 12
You can also make muffins with this recipe. Standard muffin tins, 24 muffins, 25 minutes bake time.
Ingredients
Cake:
- 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
- 2 cups of sugar
- 3 eggs, slightly beaten
- 3 cups of white flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 cups chopped, peeled apples (varieties that are good for baking – i.e. Granny Smith, Gravenstein, Fuji)
- 1 cup of sweetened shredded coconut
- 1 cup of chopped nuts – walnuts or pecans
Glaze:
- 1/2 stick sweet butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons milk
Method
1 Preheat oven to 350° F.
2 Make the cake batter: Beat together the sugar and oil. Add the eggs. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
Add dry ingredients to oil sugar eggs mixture in thirds, beating to incorporate after each addition.
Mix in the vanilla, apples, coconut, and chopped nuts.
3 Bake: Bake at 350°F in a greased and floured bundt cake pan about 1 hour.
Test around the centers with a long thin bamboo skewer or toothpick to make sure the cake is done.
4 Cool and remove from pan: When cool enough to handle, gently remove from pan. Let sit on a rack to cool completely. If the dough has raised substantially around the middle areas of the bundt ring, you may need to use a bread knife to gently level off the cake so that it sits even.
5 Glaze the cake: Blend glaze ingredients and cook until melted. Place the cake on its serving dish.
Prick all around the top of the cake with a fork so that when the glaze is applied it easily seeps into the cake.
Use a pastry brush to apply the glaze liberally around the surface areas of the cake, or use a spoon to dribble the glaze on the cake.
Many thanks to my dear friend Marjorie for passing along this wonderful cake recipe from Mrs. Paxton of Lexington, Virginia.
