Glazed Cinnamon Sugar Apple Cake
Servings 12 +
Equipment
- 9x13-inch baking dish
- Wire Cooling Rack
Ingredients
Apple Cake:
- 2½ cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
- 1½ cups brown sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 1 cup buttermilk or (1 cup milk + 1 tablespoon white vinegar)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2½ cups Honeycrisp apples thinly sliced and chopped (no need to peel, unless you want to)
Cinnamon Sugar Topping:
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp butter melted
Glaze:
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1-2 tsp milk or more, to achieve the desired consistency
- Dash of vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Coat a 9x13-inch baking dish with butter (or cooking spray).
- Prepare the cake by combining the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a small bowl.
- Whisk the brown sugar, vegetable oil, egg, buttermilk, and vanilla in a large bowl until very well combined.
- Add your flour mixture to the liquid mixture until just combined.
- Fold in your apples.
- Pour the batter into the prepared 9x13-inch baking dish.
- Prepare the cinnamon sugar topping by combining the sugar, cinnamon, and melted butter with a fork until combined and crumbly like damp sand.
- Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture evenly over the apple cake.
- Place in the oven to bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven to cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
- Make the glaze by combining the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla until you achieve your desired thickness.
- Drizzle the glaze over the cooled cake.
- Slice and serve.
- Store the cake, covered, in the fridge.