Apple Dapple Cake is easy, old vintage apple cake recipe loaded with apples and nuts, and sweet caramel sauce on top. It would be perfect cake for Thanksgiving, or anytime during the holiday season!

Apples are in the season throughout the year, but most especially in the fall, when growers harvest all kinds of different varieties.
This cake calls for the Granny Smith variety of apples, because their tartness helps balance the sweetness of cake.
They are also ideal for baking because they stay relatively firm when baked, so you’ll see and taste the apples in your cake.
You can use any other type of baking apple that will stay firm when baked.

What is Apple Dapple Cake?
This cake is an old vintage apple-nut cake recipe that has been around for decades.
It seems that everyone’s grandmother had in their recipe collections.
Apple Dapple Cake is traditionally baked in a Bundt pan, sure Bundt pan look nice but, I love to use springform pan.

Prep for Apple Dapple Cake:

• toast and chop pecans or walnuts,
• peel, core and diced apples,
• grease base and sides of 9-inch springform pan with oil or butter

How to make Apple Dapple Cake?
It comes together quickly, combine the wet and dry ingredients, mix them together add nuts, add apples fold and you have a cake.
To make his easy apple cake even better, as soon as it comes out of the oven you’ll pour caramel sauce over the top.
It seeps in while the Apple Dapple Cake is still warm and it makes this heavenly cake more delicious.
How to make Caramel Sauce?
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, whisk together brown sugar, butter, heavy cream vanilla and salt.
Bring to a low boil and continue to cook stirring gently for 3 minutes
Remove from heat and pour over the top of the warm cake.

What can I say? Everything works really well together and I love how they taste.
However, I recommend you try this delicious apple recipe.
Once you’ve tasted this cake, you’ll know why it’s such a popular recipe. Enjoy!

Apple Dapple Cake

Recipe by lidiacookbookCourse: DessertCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy

Servings

9

servings

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

50

minutes

Total time

1

hour 

10

minutes

Apple Dapple Cake is easy, old vintage apple cake recipe loaded with apples and nuts, and sweet caramel sauce on top. It would be perfect cake for Thanksgiving, or anytime during the holiday season!

Ingredients

• For the Cake:

• 1 ½ cups vegetable oil

• 1 ½ cups granulated sugar

• ½ cup brown sugar

• 3 eggs, room temperature

• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

• 3 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

• ½ teaspoon salt

• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

• 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and diced

• 1 cup pecans or walnuts, toasted and coarsely chopped

• For the Caramel Sauce:

• 1 cup light brown sugar

• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter

• ¼ cup heavy cream

• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

• Pinch of salt

Directions

• To make cake:
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease base and sides of 9-inch springform pan with oil or butter
• In a bowl of a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, mix vegetable oil, granulated sugar and brown sugar until well mixed
• Add one egg at the time and once mixed, add vanilla mix on medium speed until blended
• In a separate bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg
• With mixer on, stir the dry ingredients into wet ingredients until well incorporated
• Mix in chopped pecans then mix in diced apples, if needed use a stiff spatula to blend them well
• Spread the batter evenly into prepared pan and bake in the center of the oven at 350 degree F for 45-50 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean
• To make Caramel sauce:
• In a medium saucepan over medium heat, whisk together brown sugar, butter, heavy cream vanilla and salt. Bring to a low boil and continue to cook stirring gently for 3 minutes
• Remove from heat and pour over the top of the warm cake
• Transfer cake to a platter and serve