The Best Apple Cake Recipe Ever with Caramel Sauce
Get ready to make your whole house smell like fall with this delicious apple cake recipe! Our moist autumn cake recipe uses lots of yummy spices, fresh apples, and a caramel butter sauce to finish it off – it truly is the best apple cake recipe ever! Ready to try it? Let’s get baking!
Servings 9 slices
Ingredients
Apple Cake
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup all pupose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 large apples peeled and grated
Caramel Sauce
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup graulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup half-and-half
Instructions
- Start by pre-heating the oven to 350 F. Grease an 8x8 pan with butter or cooking spray.
- Now let's make the apple cake. Whip together butter and sugars until creamy, then mix in an egg and the vanilla extract
- Combine the flour, baking powder, spices, and freshly grated apples into your mixture. Pour the mixture evenly into a greased 8×8 square pan and bake for 40-45 minutes.
- While your delicious fall cake is baking, let’s whip up a rich caramel butter sauce!Start by melting butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Once it’s melted, stir in the sugars, followed by the half-and-half. Bring the mixture to a boil while stirring constantly.Then, reduce the heat and let it simmer for about 15 minutes. Once it’s done, simply turn off the heat and let it sit in the pan until you’re ready.
- Once your delicious apple cake is done, cool for 5 minutes and then slice it into 9 evenly sized squares and gently lift them out of the baking pan.
- Serve the apple cake slices warm with caramel sauce covering the slices.