This cake is moist and delicious because it has layers of apple pie filling.
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 1 – 9×13 inch pan |
Ingredients
- 1 (21 ounce) can apple pie filling
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 ½ cups milk
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar
- ¼ cup chopped walnuts
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- ¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ½ teaspoons hot water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×13 pan.
- Mix pie filling and cinnamon, set aside.
- Beat flour, white sugar, milk, 1/2 cup softened butter, baking powder, salt and eggs in mixing bowl on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Pour half of the batter into prepared pan. Spoon half of the pie filling over the batter. Spread remaining cake batter over pie filling, and top with the remaining half of the pie filling.
- Mix brown sugar and nuts together and sprinkle over top of cake. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons melted butter.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 55 minutes. Allow cake to cool 20 minutes.
- Combine confectioners sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 3/4 teaspoon vanilla, 2 to 3 teaspoons hot water. Beat until smooth. Drizzle over cake.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 210 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 34 g |
| Cholesterol | 39 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 222 mg |
| Sugars | 15 g |
| Fat | 7 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
The density of this cake is wonderful. The apple pie filling keeps it moist but does not have an overwhelming sugary taste.
My family likes a lot of crumble topping so I doubled the brown sugar/nut mixture. Came out wonderful and everybody loved it!
This is a very easy, no fuss cake and that’s the reason I chose to make it. It takes no time to put together. I made it as directed except, I did run a knife through the pie filling a few times to make the apples more of a dice for fear it wouldn’t cover everything. This cake turned out wonderfully. My picky daughter and her boyfriend absolutely devoured it!
That picture that accompanies the recipe doesn’t do this dish any justice. I use the AR search facility for a cake recipe using apple pie filling but no cake mix – came up with Aunt Dee Dee’s recipe. Just excellent. Dusted with icing sugar – perfect with coffee. We didn’t find it boring, we didn’t think it needed vanilla and I didn’t break up the apples – just carefully spooned the filling over the batter layer. Really good, enjoyed by 25 people – I had two cans of filling so I doubled the recipe. I’ll be making this one again soon.
Used Namaste gluten free flour it turned out fantastic!
Great recipe and so easy! I used blueberry pie filling because that’s what I had on hand and got rave reviews at our tailgate. Someone even called it the Blueberry Miracle and 3 people asked for the recipe. I put the entire can of filling in the middle and used frozen blueberries tossed with sugar on the top. Also substituted buttermilk for the milk in the cake and the icing since I had some leftover from another recipe. Other changes: used 1/2 cup Splenda instead of 1 cup white sugar and doubled the nuts and brown sugar. Thanks for the great recipe – my husband declared it a “keeper” which means it definitley rates 5 stars!
This was pretty good. I personally would have liked it to be a little sweeter and like others, agree that it needs more apples. I did one layer/can of apples and added a little apple pie spice to the batter. My son and husband thinks this is “da bomb” tho!
Made this for my daughter and her girls night…they loved it! It was so moist and flavorful. Will be sure to make this one again. Thanks so much for the recipe.
We liked this, and it was quick and easy. I also used two cans. The one thing I wasn’t crazy about was some baking powder aftertaste, I’ll try it with a bit less next time.
I made the recipe exactly as written the first time and it was very good. I needed a quick, but homemade, dish for DH’s snack day at work. I didn’t have apple pie filling, so substituted raspberry pie filling and omitted the cinnamon — DELISH!! Raspberry pie filling is sometimes hard to find, but I’ll be stocking up when I find it. It was better than the apple! Very moist and tasty!
This recipe is great just the way it is. I can’t wait to try it with other fruit fillings. I added a handfull of oats to the brown sugar topping and it wasn’t bad. This recipe is quick and easy and a definite keeper!
My mom’s group loved this recipe – they all asked for it.
I only had one can of pie filling — so instead of dividing the apples, I put all of the filling in the middle layer. I chopped the apples before spreading. The next time I make this, I will double the amount of the topping and glaze … just to add a touch more sweetness.
I made this for an office pot luck, they all liked it. I thought that it needed a little cinnamon in the batter, a little bland for me, but not too sweet. Great with coffee, will make this again. Thanks for a great recipe.
Excellent cake. It was not too sweet and perfect with a cup of coffee or tea or even for breakfast. I used fresh apples tossed wiht some brown sugar and cinnamon instead of pie filling and I feel it gave it a fresher taste. I will definately make it again!
I didn’t have any canned pie filling (nor do I care for it) so I made my own; chopped up two large granny smith apples and mixed them with the 2 tsp sugar and also 1/2 cup brown sugar. I only had 1 egg so I substituted low-fat sour cream and it turned out GREAT! Will definitely make this again.
I made this on Sunday for my family and everyone loved it. On Monday I made it again and my husband took it into work. Again, it was a hit. I did cut my apples in half so they spread out better I think that 1 can of apples was enough.
Made to take to work and everyone enjoyed, flavor was a little bland. Thanks for recipe.
2 cans of pie filling as others suggested would kill this recipe almost for sure…I would do what I did,and just slice up 2 extra apples.That made it perfect along with a splash of vanilla to the batter…I thought this was totally sinful-like pie topped cake-very good!!!Will make again for sure-way to go AUNT DEE.
i even forgot the eggs and it was still amazing.
Great cake for coffee! A couple things I did: 1) I mixed the cinnamon-apple mixture with a large metal spoon, cutting some of the apples in 1/2’s and 1/4’s in the process. 2) I mixed the eggs, sugar, butter and milk until it was well mixed – but the butter was still in small pieces. 3) While the above mixture was in my mixer, I placed the other dry ingrediant in a 2 qt plastic bag and mixed them together. Then added it gradually to the butter/milk mixture. 4) I added a few walnuts to the first layer of apples- personal preference. 5) Instead of water I used milk in the icing. That gives it a cinnamon roll type icing. Bon Appleteet!