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!
Wet Cake Batter Ingredients:
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups white sugar
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons vanilla
Dry Cake Batter Ingredients:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Teaspoon salt
- 1 Teaspoon baking soda
Cake Topping Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
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Mom's Best Apple Cake
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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I made this with the addition of cinnamon as some commenters suggested. The cake was really easy to throw together. Mine cooked the way that another commenter mentioned, where the top looked almost burned after 30 minutes but the inside was liquid. After 50 minutes it was fully baked and the top didn’t actually burn. My issue was with the topping. The caramel dried hard–brittle like. I’m assuming I cooked it too long?
I made this with the addition of cinnamon as some commenters suggested. The cake was really easy to throw together. Mine cooked the way that another commenter mentioned, where the top looked almost burned after 30 minutes but the inside was liquid. After 50 minutes it was fully baked and the top didn’t actually burn. The cake was wonderful! My issue was with the topping. The caramel dried hard–brittle like. I’m assuming I cooked it too long?
Shannon, yes sweetie you cooked it too long. Next time start with low heat and keep stirring until it boils, after it boils stop stirring and let boil for 3 minutes. It’ll climb the pan a little bit. Hope you do make it again! Just remember low heat for the sauce.
I’m going to make this tonight and I will let you know how it turns outs. I am going to sub applesauce for some of the oil and add cinnimmon.
Great Suga330! i can’t wait to hear about it!
Had this at a get- together today so tracked down the recipe. Was wonderful and brought home what was left over — which wasn’t much! Thanks 🙂
desert g.ma, I’m really glad you were able to find the recipe! Thank you for stopping by, I hope you make the cake soon!
If you don’t want to ‘make’ your own car
amel sauce then buy a jar of caramel topping (like you put over ice cream) and pour it into a microwave cup and microwave it until it is hot..then pour this over the cake that has been poked with holes. That way you won’t have to worry about your caramel sauce getting too hard
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I made this twice in 3 days! So easy and everyone loved it. I followed the directions but added cinnamon the 1st time, today I added walnuts as well. My husband loves it both ways. A keeper, I’ll even be making it for Thanksgiving.
Thanks
Brenda you’ve been baking up a storm! Thank you for coming back and telling me you made it and loved it!!
Anonymous, thank you for the caramel topping tip! That makes this cake just that more do able for more people. THANK YOU!!
Hi Bunny, Just wondering what apples you used as there are so many to choose from!
Thanks,
Janice
jscow, i always use Gala apples when I bake. Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m taking this goodie to share with my family. I baked it in a spring form pan. Timing was perfect and it’s such a pretty cake. Mine did deflate in the middle a bit, but it’s still great. I’m making the topping shortly, but I think this would be great and very pretty sprinkled with powdered sugar.
You had me at Apple Cake and then you added the hot Caramel sauce!! Oh Goodness:)))
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PSS Have you shared this at Freedom Fridays yet??
Thank you Evelyn!!!
Bunny. Found your cake on Pinterest. My husband loves apples and he loved this cake. I did make an adjustment of 1/4 tsp allspice, 1/4 tsp ground cloves and 1 tsp cinnamon. It was delicious and I use condensed milk trick for caramel sauce. Thank you for the cake. I’m taking it to my next church social.
I love this cake! I have always used red apples, but wondered if green apples would work?
Mary, this cake looks amazing and I am certain tastes that way.
Thank you Patty!
Does it work as a dairy-free cake? With soy milk and margarine instead of milk and butter?
I’ve never used soy milk when baking, if you have with good results then by all means try it. Yes you can use margarine instead of butter. Let me know how it works out!