Apple Dapple Cake
Don’t you just love the taste of brown sugar? I mean, all on its own, I just love brown sugar. Whenever I am baking with it, I can’t help but to get a pinch out for myself. Lucky is the day when I find a few precious lumps within the bag!
The wonderful thing about this cake (and lord, I do mean WONDERFUL) is that the resulting flavor is a perfect blend of fresh apples and buttery brown sugar. With the special sauce poured over the cake and allowed to soak in before removing the cake from the pan, it is by far the moistest cake I’ve ever baked. As if the flavor (and smell!) were not enough, the slices are gorgeous, too. Thick slices showcase bits of apple and the slightly granular texture around the edges of the tender crust brought on by the brown sugar. If you’ve ever wanted to win someone over through their stomach, THIS cake is a home run.
You’ll need: Apples, Flour, Salt, Baking Soda, Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Vanilla, Eggs, and Pecans!
(This cake gets me so excited. You are going to DIE of happiness when you taste it, I swear!)
In your mixing bowl, place oil, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Mix until blended.
Sift together flour and….
Baking soda and…..
Salt.
Add this to your wet ingredients and mix until blended again.
Peel your apples.
And dice them up into little chunks, like this.
Add chopped pecans.
and your apples. Blend.
Until it looks like this!
Prepare your pan either by greasing with shortening and flouring, or by using one of these handy, dandy sprays.
(This is the easy way)
Pour your batter into your pan. My mother uses a tube pan but whenever I bake this I just use a bundt pan. Either one is fine.
Bake this in the oven at 350 for one hour.
Now we are going to make this AMAZING sauce to pour over the cake while it is still hot in the pan.
You will need: Dark brown sugar, milk, and margarine (or butter).
Place milk, margarine, and brown sugar in a sauce pot.
Sir this together (on the stove eye of course!) and bring to a gentle boil. Once it starts boiling gently, keep stirring and cook for about three minutes. Remove from heat. Remove hot delicious cake from the oven.
While the cake is still piping hot in the pan, pour the sauce over it and let it all sit until it soaks it up.
Oh dear lord, look at that cake!
I mean, LOOK AT THAT CAKE!!!!
Leave the cake in the pan until it has cooled completely.
WOW. LOOK AT THAT CAKE!!!!
Apples, meet the ultimate recipe for which you were intended!!
Ingredients
- 3 cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon soda
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups raw apples, peeled and chopped fine
- Sauce:
- 1 cup packed brown sugar (for sauce)
- 1/4 cup milk (for sauce)
- 3/4 cup margarine(1 -1/2 sticks) (for sauce)
Instructions
- Mix oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Sift together flour, salt, soda. Add to first mixture. Fold in pecans and apples. Bake in tube pan at 350 for 1 hour.
- For the sauce, mix and cook ingredients 3 minutes after it begins to gently boil, stirring constantly. Pour over hot cake while cake is still in pan. Let cake cool completely before removing.
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I found your website a couple of weeks ago and am loving it! Anxiously waiting for your cookbook to come out. Today I am making the Apple Dapple Cake to take to the kick off dinner for ladies Bible study. I am sure everyone is going to declare it delicious! I am so excited to have an apple cake recipe that does not call for cinnamon as my 84 yr. old dad can’t eat it. He remembers his mom making an apple cake without it when he was growing up in Missouri. My mom was born in Kentucky and her mom, Mamaw, cooked southern. You know…..sweet tea, green beans with hamhocks and potatoes, corn bread, sliced fresh tomatoes, and big ribbed musk melons with fried apple pies was my favorite dinner. My aunt did the banana pudding. And Papaw would crumble his corn bread in a glass of milk and eat it! I am a misplaced southern gal! Thanks for all your hard work and sharing it with us.
Its a shame you opted for margarine :-p
If you *really* want to drive someone to ecstasy then use butter… and I may even try replacing the icky oil with butter! In for a penny in for a pound! Or Two! haha
Just baked this cake today and WOW. I did make a couple of changes. Used 1/2 cup oil and 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce. Used walnuts instead of pecans because that is what I had. Only used 1 stick butter (not margarine) for the sauce and it turned out wonderful. Must definitely use brown sugar for the sauce. I used the light since that is what I had on hand and was wonderful. My husband says this recipe is a keeper. Anxious to try other apple recipes since apples are so plentiful this time of year.
Recently found your site — WOW!! It is great. I just made this cake earlier this week. It is wonderful. I made it in a bundt pan and the brown sugar sauce makes a wonderful “crust”. I had fresh apples from a trip to the orchard recently.
I didn’t have dark brown sugar, so I used light. Do you think it makes a big difference?
Made this the night before last. This was a HUGE hit at home and work.
So easy and delicious. Thank you for the great recipes.
Many blessings to you and your family.
This is moist and delish. We can’t get enough of it in my house. Friends asked for the recipe and are now loving southern plate as much as I do. This recipe has gone into my new book of keepers. Christy, you are amazing and I am grateful to you for your simple and tasty recipes and your heartfelt stories.
May you and your family have a Blessed Thanksgiving.
i think it is expensive to get a hair transplant but the procedure is well worth it ,:~
okkk~~what does a hair transplant have to do with this apple cake???? Is that necessary after making or baking this cake?? just saying ~giggles~
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I am so very happy to find this recipe, I used to make an Apple Dapple cake ,many moons ago, my family loved it, But in moving a few years ago I have lost all of my old treasured recipes, made me so sad, Don’t know what happened to them. ? So I’m going to joyfully make this cake again, Thank-You so much for posting this recipe.
I am in the process of making this cake now, but I am concerned. It is so doggone thick it won’t even run off the beater bar. I double checked all the ingredients to make sure I hadn’t made a mistake & had not. I have even added another 1/2 c. oil & 1 c. applesauce. At least I can stir it now but it is still awfully thick. Hope it turns out all right. I’m going to have to cut a piece before company comes to see if I need to go buy another dessert.
OH you did not need to add a thing! I have no idea how it turned out with the added ingredients, but mine was thick last night when I made it for the first time as well. But I trust Christy and baked it up and it was fantastic. { I am not a chemist but…I believe the moisture in the apples leak out when this is cooked} I hope you do try again if the added moisture ruined the first go around. You would be missing out on an exceptional cake if you don’t!
I’ve made this cake 3 times now. Easter it was a hit with my family 10 votes say it’s awesome. 2nd cake went to a birthday party at a friends house. I came in and found 5 women picking apart the cake trying to figure out what all was in there and they all want the receipe. 3rd cake went to the home of a friend that had just lost her mother. A couple days later the house is filling full of folks that came after the funeral was over. Her family members said, “don’t put that apple cake out – save it until all these people leave!” This is that cake you take to share and everyone says Wow!!! Can I have a copy of your receipe? Thank You Christy!
You just made my day Robin!! I am so glad to hear it has been such a big hit with everyone!
I have made this cake for years and it is always a hit. My recipe is just like yours. I grew up in Athens Alabama just outside Huntsville a few miles so that is probably why. My mother-in-law, God rest her soul, gave me so many cake recipes that I have cherished. have been married for over 40 years and my husband is a big fan of Elvis Presley cake. Love you site. Keep on with the great work.
You are just too sweet Connie!! Thank you so much!!
Christy, those granny smith apples, does it matter what kind of apples?
Nope, you can use whatever you have on hand, that is the beauty of this recipe!
Hi Cristy! Congradulations “Editor at Large’!!!” Girl, your recipes are wonderful! Your Apple Dapple Cake is nearly the same as my Mother’s Apple Walnut Cake. Her recipe calls for taking up the cake & pouring the warm icing over it several times, letting it soak in between ‘coats’. She was from Tennessee, maybe why the names different. My friend in Michigan calls hers Dutch Apple Cake! (They live near an Amish community.) I made it with my granddaughters today & they loved it. I think pouring the sauce on in the pan is easier than keeping the sauce warm & re applying it. Your recipes bring so many people together, keep up the good work!
Isn’t it funny how the same recipe can have so many different names depending on the region? I am so glad you and your granddaughters loved the cake though!!
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Hi Christy, As a transplanted Italian home cook from NY living here in Virginia has been an experience for our family .I am learning how to cook southern dishes and thanks to your website its been an easy transition but still cant get those southern biscuits to come out fluffy .This Apple cake is perfecto it goes great with lemoncello ciao, Linda
I am going to make this for our family lunch Sunday cant wait
I hope everyone loves it!! It is always a favorite around here.
Apple Dapple cake has been my favorite for years and it is the sign of fall for me. My kids ate it and everyone that ever tasted it loved it.Thanks for reminding me.
Today I thought I’d be smart and not use my kitchen aid. Today the batter decided to be dry. Today I decided I am a wimp. No humidity around here, maybe? I added a little cup of applesauce, (thank goodness I have grandchildren : ) Looked just fine after that. ‘Tis in the oven..my oven cooks slow. OHHH SOOO SLOW!
Guess we will go to Chinese while it cools. Can’t wait to try it, it sounds so good.
I made this today for our Thanksgiving Supper(Canada) and it was SO good! Only a few crumbs left….I love your recipes and I am so thankful for finding you =)
Thank you for sharing this recipe! Growing up in NC with my Mawmaw was a blessing for me as she was a wonderful cook and baker. She made a cake that she called Apple Dapple and the apples were from her sister Mary’s orchard. I lost her recipe and then I found your Southern Plate website and I am more than thrilled! The cake is in the oven right now and the house smells wonderful. Thanks Christy for your awesome collection of southern recipes. I’ll be visiting your site again soon!
I am so glad you found the recipe Christie!!
This is basically the same recipe we’ve been making for over 20 years except Mom always uses white sugar instead of brown. The only other thing that’s different is that she pokes the cakes with a toothpick here and there and does a double batch of the topping. If you can resist it long enough, a couple of days makes the whole thing this wonderful gushy thing of apply goodness. (She makes 8-10 over the holidays and passes them out to family and one year someone wasn’t home to get theirs so we had one sit that long or we’d have never discovered they get better with age!)
I made this cake this weekend and it was soooo good, husband loved it. I took some to Mom and she shared with her neighbor who wants recipe. Keep sharing these good recipes.
I am so glad to hear it was a hit!!!
what kind of apples do you use to make the Apple Dapple cake? Making it tomorrow and was wondering if it is Granny Smith??
I use any kind really except the delicious varieties. But really other than that I just get whatever is on sale or that I can find.
OHHHH Christy!
I have NEVER made a cake batter of any type and added apples! I was skeptical…but I trust ya! OH GOODNESS this is so wonderful!!! I whipped this up when my dinner was in the oven last night. My husband, daughter 20 and son 15 LOVED it! {me too!} Thanks so much!
I made TWO of these last night and almost immediately the 1st one was devoured with lots of mmmm’s and oh yessss! Thank you for such a great recipe that is easy and an awesome share! I ate a piece for breakfast this morning ~Delish! Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake is next! I have enjoyed trying your recipes… as well as my family too!
I also had this recipe so many moons ago and lost it at least 20 years ago when i moved. I have looked over and over and over for it and now here it is!! This recipe is absolutely delicious and a hit everytime. Thanks a million times over.
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My mother Jewelene Thames cooked an apple dappler cake for Thanksgiving, I’m telling it was DELICIOUS, the best cake I ever eaten, sadly I lost my mom to cancer on the December 21, 2011. But promise her I will learn how to cook this delicious cake, but I know it want be good as my MOM.
“Thank you,
Ruth Potter
I am so sorry to hear of your loss Ruth. It is so hard to loose a loved one but especially during the holidays. And you are right, there will never be one as good as your Momma made.
Best apple cake ever! Its a thick batter but you don’t need to add any extra liquid.