A simple cake made of apples and spices that has a creamy icing. Excellent for fans of apple spice!
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 45 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 9 |
Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ cup milk
- 2 cups apple, peeled, cored, and chopped
- ¼ cup shortening
- 2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- ¼ cup evaporated milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square pan. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together shortening, brown sugar, and white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk, mixing just until incorporated. Stir in chopped apples.
- Spread batter evenly in prepared pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.
- To make frosting, combine 1/4 cup shortening, confectioners’ sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a medium bowl. Beat until light and creamy. Beat in milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, until desired spreading consistency is achieved. Spread over top of cooled cake.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 468 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 71 g |
| Cholesterol | 44 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 273 mg |
| Sugars | 53 g |
| Fat | 19 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I canned quarts of apples last fall and was looking for a recipe to use them. This one fit perfectly. Followed the recipe as written and added the drained canned apples. I made a caramel sauce to accompany it instead of icing. Very moist and delicious!! I’m adding to my most favorite recipe list!
It was wonderful, but next time I make it I need to add on at least 10 minutes to the baking time as middle didn’t cook enough!
I like the flavor. I only had 8 inch pans, toothpick test was dry, top was nicely browned, but when I tried to get it out of the pan to cool on a rack, the bottom was liquid. Definitely need the 9 inch pan.
I loved this recipe and made exactly as written, may have used more apples. Stayed moist until it was all eaten. I used Granny Smith apples as I would in a apple pie. I Will definitely make again!
Delicious as is!!!
This cake is simple to make and is so good! The cinnamon frosting is delicious. I did omit the nutmeg, since my husband doesn’t care for it. My family loved it!
Splendid!! It was quickly eaten – it is sooo good. This is a homerun in my house.
The cake is light, moist and delicious. The kind I would be proud to serve to company, or take to a pot luck. I’m not a fan of frosting, so I made a warm carmamel sauce for topping. I’m going to try a streusel topping the next time I make it.
Outstanding. I used the original recipe and just switched out the shortening for coconut oil instead. It gave it a bit of a tropical flavor!
This cake was much better than the apple cake I made over a year ago. It’s not dense and it is flavourful! I think the icing makes ties it all together, as it adds another texture to the cake! So creamy!
This was a very tasty cake. It had a nice crumb, was moist and the spice was very good. I made the icing, which was good as well, but next time I make it, I will serve it without the icing and just use a drizzle of caramel sauce and possibly some glazed pecans and let the cake be the star!
This was a lovely apple treat! My sons class went apple picking and he brought home a lot of them. Easy way to use apples. Being from UK, I made custard tonight to serve over them. Very nice easy recipe.
This is my most requested cake. My family calls it Chris’ amazing apple cake. I did make a few changes to the recipe. I substituted sugar in the raw for regular sugar, decreased walnuts to 1/2 cup and added 1/2 cup craisens . I also added a tbs of rum to the caramel glaze.
Very moist and had rave reviews when I brought to work
I will be making this often–not to spicy, just right. Thanks P.G I forgot to mention I did not make the frosting since my husband and I are both diabetics . I was great just plain…
Nice recipe
I doubled the recipe and added 2 extra apples and used less sugar…it’s delicious!!! I made it twice already.
This cake is very good. The spices give it a wonderful flavor even in the icing.
First time, followed the recipe. The cake was good, the icing was not. The icing had no flavor except sweet. I added extra cinnamon in the hope it would help. It didn’t. The next time I made the cake, I put in 3.5 cups of apples & 1/2 cup of walnuts. No icing. I plan to cut back the white sugar next as the cake is a bit sweet. I’m also going to try making it as muffins. Without the icing & adding extra apples & walnuts, this recipe is 5 stars.
My husband and I had this last night. We both loved it! Aside from cutting back on the sugar (used 1C coconut sugar only), I followed the recipe. Thanks for this terrific recipe. It’s a keeper!
I substituted stevia for sugar and it turned out excellent!!