How to Make Delicious Old Fashioned German Apple Cake

Old Fashioned German Apple Cake. Embrace fall flavors and homey feelings with German apple cake—an old-fashioned dessert that's so delicious, we keep making it today. Every editorial product is independently selected, though we may be compensated or receive an affiliate commission if you buy something through our links. A good apple cake recipe turns out moist, dense and down-right delicious.

Combine dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture. stir in apples, walnuts and chips. Old-Fashioned Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting — the original. To make the cake: Mix all of the ingredients except the apples and nuts in a large bowl. You can have Old Fashioned German Apple Cake using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Old Fashioned German Apple Cake

1. It's 4 cups of apples, peeled and chopped.
2. You need 2 cups of sugar.
3. It's 1 cup of vegetable oil.
4. It's 3 of eggs.
5. Prepare 2 cups of flour.
6. You need 1 tsp. of baking soda.
7. It's 1 tsp. of cinnamon.
8. You need 1/4 tsp. of salt.
9. You need To taste of Cinnamon and nutmeg, for topping.
10. It's of Cream Cheese Frosting:.
11. It's 8 oz. of pkg cream cheese, softened.
12. You need 3 Tbsp. of butter, melted.
13. It's 2 1/2 cups of powdered sugar.

As soon as the mixture comes together and becomes pretty uniformly crumbly, stop mixing; you don't want it to turn into a cohesive mass. Sift the flour, baking powder, and baking soda together and stir into the first mixture. Spread the batter in the prepared cake pan. Arrange the apples on top of the batter in rows, overlapping slightly.

Old Fashioned German Apple Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a mixer beat together sugar, oil and eggs..
2. Combine flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon together in separate bowl..
3. Slowly incorporate into mixer of wet ingredients..
4. Fold in the chopped apples..
5. Place cake mixture into a greased 9x13 dish..
6. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and nutmeg..
7. Bake at 325 degrees for 50 minutes. Cake is done when toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before making frosting..
8. Once cake has cooled completely, make your frosting by adding the cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar to mixer until well combined..
9. Spread evenly over cake..
10. Enjoy!.

It's tried, true and has withstood the tests of time. There's something delightful about baked apple desserts. I usually make this cake and a big batch of applesauce when I have an abundance of apples. It was so hot here today that I wanted a reminder of autumn! If you like apple cakes then you must try this German Old Fashioned Apple Cake.