Apple Spiced Coffee Cake
We love this time of this time of year because we’re loaded with ripe, juicy and in-season apples. Our apple spiced coffee cake is now on the menu for the next few months and no one ever gets tired of it.
Apple Coffee Cake Season
Inspired by the cooler weather and Fall season, we visited apple country to explore the apple and pear orchards of the area. What a treat is is to be able to be immersed in all these beautiful apple trees. If you have any apple u-pick orchards in your area we suggest you take a day trip and indulge. The beauty of apples and pears growing on the trees are always a spectacular sight. And it’s even better if you can pick a bag full of fresh apples for this apple spiced coffee cake!
Video of our Spiced Apple Coffee Cake Recipe:
Easy Coffee Cake with Apple Flavors
A while back I posted a pumpkin spiced coffeecake with we’ve had to make a couple times since because it was so good. So why not try a riff off of that recipe with all these apples? So we axed the pumpkin puree, bumped up the sour cream, tweaked the spices a bit, and added in grated apples. I thought about sautéing slices of apples and layering them in, but this way was quicker and easier, and with so much to do in our schedule, quick and easy seemed best. It came out fantastic. We had previously thought the pumpkin spiced coffeecake was one of best we’ve had, however now we can’t decide. This apple one is pretty darn tasty. No need to compete, there is plenty of love for both.
This Apple coffee cake recipe was originally published in 2013 and it’s still a reader favorite.
Apple Spiced Coffee Cake
Ingredients
for the topping:
- 1/3 cup (42 g) Flour
- 1/2 cup (110 g) Brown Sugar
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) ground Cinnamon
- Pinch (Pinch) Kosher Salt or sea Salt
- 6 Tablespoons (90 g) cold Butter , cut into small chunks
- 1 cup (144 g) chopped Nuts (walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, or almonds)
for the batter:
- 1 1/2 cups (188 g) All-purpose Flour
- 2 teaspoons (10 ml) Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) Baking Soda
- 2 teaspoons (10 ml) ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) ground Clove
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) ground Ginger or 2 teaspoons fresh grated ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) Kosher salt or Sea Salt
- 1/2 cup (114 g) Butter (one stick)
- 1 cup (220 g) Brown Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) Vanilla Extract
- 3/4 cup (180 ml) Sour Cream , or Greek yogurt
- 1 1/2 cups (360 ml) peeled and grated tart Apples , about 2 medium apples
- (optional) ((optional)) Powdered Sugar , for dusting
Equipment
- 1 9" Springform Pan or 9"x9" or (2.5qt) baking dish
- Powdered Sugar Duster (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Butter and flour a 9-inch springform pan or 9"x9" pan or 2.5 qt baking dish.
- Make the topping: In a bowl combine the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Pinch in the butter, or use a pastry cutter, until it looks like coarse crumbs. Mix in the chopped nuts, and then refrigerate topping until ready to top the coffeecake.
- Make the batter: In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, clove, ginger, and salt for at least 20 seconds. Set aside.
- With a mixer beat the butter and brown sugar on medium-high until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs. Stir in the vanilla extract and sour cream. Mix in the grated apples until combined.
- Stir in the flour mixture until just combined. Spread the batter in the prepared pan.
- Sprinkle the topping over the batter and then bake.
- Bake for about 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes) or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake.
- Allow to cool, then remove from pan. Dust with powdered sugar if desired. Cut and serve.
I made this recipe last night and it is delicious, WHOA!!! I used 3 fuji apples which turn out to be a lot juicier than the photo of your apples above – I just squeezed the grated apple before adding to batter so it wasn’t too runny. I also subbed out sour cream for plain greek yogurt because I always have the yogurt and never have the sour cream. This is a great recipe, I’m sure I’ll be making it many times this fall/winter! Always impressed with you guys <3 – Charlie, http://www.lemonbutterlove.com
I wish I could have a piece of that right now! It looks wonderful 🙂
This cake looks absolutely delicious! I may be trying to make a gluten-free version really soon 🙂 Thanks for the share!
I really love your camera shots. Anyways, this looks great.
I am not fond of either cloves or cinnamon – I know, I know, but I guess I overdid it when I was young and so now I am paying for it. Anyway, I have found that apples and cardamom are made to be together with the help of ginger and in my cake today, a pinch of saffron for whimsy. I made it this morning, no sour cream so Greek thick yoghurt instead, otherwise I followed your recipe as written and good heavens! I don’t want to jinx this as I did with cloves and cinnamon so I called my best friend and told her to come and save me, and she went home saying she didn’t think that half of the cake was going to make it all the way. Merci beaucoup for another wonderful recipe. I believe is up there with la poudre de perlimpinpin, seriously.
…but..you can SEE how moist it is. you can see it. and i’m going to cry. i need this now.
Perfect- I have a dearth of apples to use up and intrigued to see how these flavours will work.
Decadent and love the spices here. Perfect with a side of tea 🙂
This cake looks so delish! Apples in coffee cake are incredible especially when spiced.
This looks absolutely amazing. My son is allergic to nuts, so I think I’ll use pumpkin seeds instead of nuts for the topping. Can’t wait to try it!
What do think of substituting oatmeal for nuts in the topping. Nut allergies, you know.
Oatmeal should work great. It would be like a crisp topping on the coffee cake which sounds delicious!
The apple coffee cake sounds wonderful but how about the recipe for Diane’s mom’s fish sauce? I haven’t had good fish sauce since I left Vitenam in 1974.
Have you tried Red Boat 40%? Of all the fish sauces I have tried that one has been my favorite since they started selling here in the States. I like the fact that it has that faint smell of anchovies and that a couple of teaspoon can make a dish have that special flavoring that only a good fish sauce can give.
For the sake of disclosure I have nothing to do with Red Boat, I am just a fan of something good.
Mmm apple cake is one of my favs. This recipe is fab!
looks delicious, i could gobble it right up. the photography is beautiful.
sounds delicious – hope you’re enjoying your time in Australia 🙂
Your cake sounds delicious, I like the generous amount of cloves that you’ve added. I love this spice and paired with all the other spices and apples I can imagine the cake tastes beautiful. I’m featuring this recipe on my blog on a feature that I have called baking news. Saving recipe and pinning too.