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Cinnamon Apple Cake

Crisp sweet and tart apple slices baked into moist cake topped with an apple cider glaze!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword apple, apple cake, apple cider glaze
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 55 minutes
Servings 16 servings

Ingredients

Cake

  • 4 eggs, large
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp baking powder

Apples

  • 4-5 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 tbsp cinnamon

Cider Glaze

  • 3 tbsp butter
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tbsp apple cider

Optional Crumb Topping

  • 1/3 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp cold butter
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • Store bought jar caramel

Instructions

Cake

  • Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. 
    In a standing mixer, add the sugar and eggs and beat on high speed until the mixture has slightly thickened and is paler in color.  Add the oil, sour cream and vanilla and beat at medium speed until blended. Add flour, salt and baking powder. Mix until incorporated.  
    Spray a tube pan with a removable tube with baking spray. Spread 1/3 of the cake batter in the pan.  Arrange 1/3 of the apples in a layer on top of the batter.  Combine sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.  Sprinkle 1/3 of the mixture on top of the apples.  Repeat this process two more times until all of the batter, apples and sugar mixture is layered in the pan.  
    Bake for about 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour and 25 minutes or until browned.  Cool completely on a wire rack, then remove cake from the pan. 

Glaze

  • In a saucepan, combine all ingredients for the glaze.  Heat until butter is melted and it begins to slightly boil.  Remove from heat and brush cake with the glaze.

Optional Crumb Topping

  • Add flour, brown sugar, butter and cinnamon to a small dish. With your fingers, squeeze the butter into the dry ingredients until you have a crumbly pebble like texture. Sprinkle the crumb on top of the cake batter after you add the apples and last round of cinnamon/sugar. Bake as normal. After cooling and removing the cake from the pan, drizzle on the jarred caramel. Omit the glaze.