This apple cake is soft, moist, and filled with warm cinnamon flavor. The best part? You don’t need a mixer—just one bowl, a spoon, and a baking pan.
🧁 Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- No electric mixer required
- Extra moist from apples and a touch of oil
- Lightly spiced for cozy flavor
- Perfect for dessert, brunch, or even breakfast
📋 Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 2 cups (250g) all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg (optional)
- ½ tsp salt
Wet Ingredients
- 2 large eggs
- ¾ cup (150g) sugar
- ½ cup (100g) brown sugar
- 1 cup (240ml) vegetable oil or melted butter
- ¼ cup (60ml) milk or buttermilk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Add-ins
- 2–3 medium apples, peeled and diced (about 2 cups)
- ½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
- ½ cup raisins or shredded coconut (optional)
🥣 Instructions
- Preheat oven
- Set oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Grease and flour a 9×13-inch pan or line with parchment.
- Mix wet ingredients
- In a large bowl, whisk eggs, both sugars, oil, milk, and vanilla until smooth.
- Add dry ingredients
- Sift in flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
- Stir gently until just combined (don’t overmix).
- Fold in apples & add-ins
- Add chopped apples (and nuts, raisins, or coconut if using).
- Fold gently to distribute.
- Bake
- Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth the top.
- Bake 35–45 minutes, checking from 35 minutes onward.
- Cake is ready when a toothpick in the center comes out clean.
- Cool & serve
- Let cool in the pan for 10–15 minutes.
- Serve warm, or let cool completely.
🍯 Optional Vanilla Glaze
Mix together:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1–2 tbsp milk
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Drizzle over the cooled cake.
🧊 Storage
- Store at room temperature in an airtight container for 2–3 days
- Refrigerate up to 5–6 days
- Freezes well (wrap slices individually)