I love old fashioned cakes like Mom’s Best Apple Cake. It’s a soft, moist cake with lots of apples baked into it. There’s also a hot caramel sauce poured over the apple cake after it’s baked that makes this outrageously delicious!
I’ve been making an apple cake similar to this for about thirty years. I’ve got to tell you though, I like this one better. What makes this apple cake killer is the caramel topping you make and pour over the cake. Make the cake and after you let it cool, you make the caramel sauce and pour the hot caramel sauce over the apple cake. Uh huh, gooey delicious caramel over a moist apple-filled cake. *Sigh* You know you need this kids. It’s easy, fast to make and incredibly delicious.
To start the recipe for Mom’s Best Apple Cake preheat your oven to 350 degrees and grease and flour a 13×9 inch baking pan.
Every cake recipe has wet cake batter ingredients and dry cake batter ingredients. This homemade apple cake recipe starts out by putting all the wet cake batter ingredients into a large bowl.
Now I know you’re looking at the wet ingredient list and thinking…why is the sugar in the wet ingredient list and not in the dry ingredient list? When making most homemade cake batters sugar is almost always considered a wet ingredient because it needs the wet ingredients in the recipe to dissolve and bake into the cake.
Wet Cake Batter Ingredients:
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups white sugar
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons vanilla
Beat the wet ingredients together until they are well incorporated.
Place the dry cake batter ingredients into a large bowl and swirl them together to combine.
Dry Cake Batter Ingredients:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Teaspoon salt
- 1 Teaspoon baking soda
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat the two together until just incorporated. Ok, so why is it that you can beat the wet ingredients in a cake batter until they’re well incorporated but when it comes to adding the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients to make the cake batter, you only beat them into the wet ingredients until “just incorporated“?
Are you still with me? The dry ingredients contain flour, the longer you beat flour into a cake batter the more gluten you produce. The more gluten you produce the tougher the cake will be.
Unless the cake recipe specifies otherwise, place all the dry ingredients into a bowl and swirl them together before you add them to the wet ingredients. If you’re adding the dry ingredients as you measure them out, one by one to the bowl of wet ingredients and you are beating each dry ingredient into the wet ingredients separately, your beating longer than you need to.
If you have the dry ingredients measured out and swirled together, your beating one time instead of several times with the addition of each dry ingredient. Does that make sense? Ok, I promise I’m done being long-winded, but it is about the best apple cake so I’m sure you understand!
Stir 3 cups of peeled, diced baking apples into the cake batter.
Pour the cake batter into your greased and floured 13×9 inch baking pan.
Bake the cake 55 – 60 minutes or until it tests done with a toothpick. Cool the cake completely on a wire rack before making the topping.
Cake Topping Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
Combine the butter, brown sugar and milk in a medium-size saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until the mixture boils. Boil without stirring for 3 minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat and immediately spread the topping over the cake. Let the cake sit an hour before serving.
Mom’s Best Apple Cake, a tender moist and delicious homemade caramel-topped apple cake that’s irresistible, ENJOY!
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Mom's Best Apple Cake
The ingredients for this Mom’s Best Apple Cake are so simple and it comes out perfect every time! This is the only Apple Cake Recipe you will ever need.
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 567kcal
Ingredients
Cake Batter:
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 1 Teaspoon salt
- 1 Teaspoon baking soda
- 3 cups baking apples, peeled and diced
Caramel Topping:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- (If you would prefer to add cinnamon to the cake, add 1 tsp to the dry ingredients)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 13x9 in baking pan.For the cake: In a large mixing bowl, beat together the oil, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until well incorporated. Place the flour, salt, and baking soda into a large bowl and swirl together. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients (oil,sugar,eggs, vanilla) until just incorporated. Stir in the apples.Pour the cake batter into the prepared baking dish. Bake for 55 – 60 minutes. Cool completely before adding the topping.For the topping:In a saucepan, combine the butter, brown sugar, and milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture boils. Boil without stirring for 3 minutes. Remove from heat and immediately spread over the top of the cooled cake. Let sit for an hour prior to serving.
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Nutrition
Serving: 8g | Calories: 567kcal | Carbohydrates: 101g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 92mg | Sodium: 564mg | Potassium: 102mg | Sugar: 77g | Vitamin A: 455IU | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 2mg
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Hi Mary/Bunny,
Saw this awesome old fashioned apple cake in facebook.Just could not resist had to come here:))
So glad to see so many interesting recipes.Will visit often.
Glad to join this space.
Meena
Can you please let me know if the oven temp. of 275 is correct on the pecan banana cake. thank you.
Yes Gerri that oven temperature is correct. I know it’s a little odd but it works.
Thank you Meena for visiting with me. I’m happy you liked the recipe and hope you come and visit often!
This cake sounds so easy to make. And everything’s better with caramel sauce!
This does look delicious! I was just browsing to find different apple cake deserts and I am glad I found yours! I have pinned it and I will be trying it out soon!
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Hi, no spices? And 1 cup of oil to 2 cups of flour?
Laura it was very easy to put together, and girl I don’t know of anything that doesn’t taste better with caramel on it! LOL!!
Maria, THANK YOU so much!
Tara, yes that’s the ratio, you can add cinnamon or any spice you want to the cake! Thanks for stopping by!
oh I like that it looks so tasty this so lovely cake i ever see here on internet.
i love eating that’s why im too fat now 🙂
but most of the time what i eat are any kind of chocolates
like milk chocolate ,French macarons, and macarons london and so on.
well anyway that cake recipe above is interesting i wanna try that.
John please do make it, your going to love it. Thanks so much for visiting!
Hello…I made this cake last weekend after picking fresh apples. I added a little cinnamon and it turned out GREAT!! Took it to work and it was gone in no time.
Definitely a keeper…have more apples to use up!!
Does this freeze well?
Making this right now 🙂
can u use butter instead of oil?
it sounds really good but think I will had cinnamon too
Emily, I would put the topping on if your going to freeze it. freeze the cake part and then when you’re ready to un freeze it,let it come to room temp ,make the topping and pour over the cake.
Tina thank you for coming back and telling me you made it! that’s awesome!
Anonymous, yes add cinnamon it’ll go very well in the cake, maybe a tsp. if you sub butter for the oil, melt the butter first.
Tried this recipe today….I baked the cake for about 30 mins because otherwise it would have burned and dried out! To prevent it from being dry I poked holes in the top and poured the carmel sauce on top. The batter wasnt the usual cake batter. But the cake tasted great.
Thank you cupcakekate for letting me know you made it!
Good cake and easy to make. Needs cinnamon or nutmeg. Very bland
Good cake and easy to make…just needs cinnamon!
This cake is fantastic! I have made it twice in the past two weeks and everyone has loved it and asked for the recipe. The additional beauty of this cake and recipe is that not only is delicious, but it is so easy to make! Thank you!