FRESH APPLE CAKE
Fresh Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is a wonderful cake your friends and family will love! It’s the perfect Fall dessert. Spend a day at the orchard and then come home and make this delicious cake. We love apple recipes, the combination of apples, cinnamon and cream cheese is always good.
Fresh Apple Cake Ingredients Needed:
Apples
Eggs
White Sugar
Cooking oil or butter
All-purpose flour
Baking soda
Ground cinnamon
Ground nutmeg
Salt
Vanilla
Nuts (optional
Cream cheese frosting ingredients needed:
Cream cheese, softened
Butter
Powdered sugar
Vanilla
I just peel and grate the apples on one of those tin hand graters, which I find is the easiest way to grate apples. Plus it finely grates them and make this cake nice and moist. This cake is made in a 9X13 and comes together pretty quickly after you grate the apples.
- I have used all kinds of apples in this cake so use what you enjoy!
- We love the cream cheese frosting, but caramel frosting would be good to! Find a great recipe here.
- All apples very in size so it’s hard to say exactly how many you need. I used about 4 apples for this recipe.
Full printable recipe in recipe card below.
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Fresh Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 4 cups apples grated
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup cooking oil or 8 tablespoons butter softened
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Pinch salt
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup nuts optional
Cream cheese frosting:
- 1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
- 1 stick butter softened
- 1 box powdered sugar 16 oz
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Instructions
- In a large bowl cream butter, sugar and eggs. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, ground cinnamon, salt, and ground nutmeg
- Add to the creamed mixture along with vanilla and grated apples. Mix all with the mixer. Fold in nuts.
- Bake in a 9 x 13 inch pan sprayed with cooking spray at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Cool.
Frosting Instructions
- Whip all frosting ingredients together with mixer until smooth and of spreading consistency.
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This is just like my moms recipe, that I had lost. Love it!
Can you sub unsweeteened applesauce instead of the grated apples?
You can always try it, we have only made the recipe the way it is written.
Can I make 2 8-inch round pans with this recipe?
I have never made it that way but I see no reason why it wouldn’t. Give a try and see!
Do the walnuts have to be toasted or can i just ass them as Raw walnuts?
I have never toasted them for this cake. Enjoy.
my cake didn’t rise very much, is that normal?
It doesn’t rise as much as some cakes but as you can see in the photo with the 9 x 13 casserole dish, it is almost to the top of the dish.
I made this cake this weekend to take to a get-together with my husband’s family in Somerset, KY. It was loved by all!! Thanks, Judy for making me look good with all the in-laws 🙂
So happy the cake was a hit, Donna!
Judy, I can’t imagine someone finding a negative, nasty comment to make regarding your uplifting, delicious website. You’ve heard the old expression about pitying someone more than censuring them. Maybe those people who find fault are so sick and unhappy that they fit that adage. I know you deserve nothing but kindness. Thanks,
Jane Dow
Oh my goodness!!! My mother used to make a Fresh Apple Cake and this looks like it could be the recipe! I have wanted it for years!!! Thank you!!!o
Love apple cakes! With cream cheese frosting, how can I say no? So yummy!
When I bake a cake like this or a spice cake, I’ve eliminated the frosting and pour a jar of baby food fruit pudding over the top – yum. Wish I could go out and pick my own NY state apples right now, my mouth is watering .
How many apples did you use to get 4 cups? Thanks you
I grate the apples with a hand grater until I get enough to make four cups using a cup measuring cup. Probably, around 4 medium apples.