Old-Fashioned Apple Cake with Caramel Sauce - A Warm Apple Cake Recipe
Old-Fashioned Apple Cake with Caramel Sauce is a great dessert that can be made with fresh apples or with a can of apple pie filling. Follow these easy instructions for either version of this yummy warm apple cake.
Prep Time10 minutes mins
Cook Time30 minutes mins
Total Time40 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: brown sugar sauce for apple cake, grandma's apple cake with caramel sauce, old-fashioned apple cake with caramel sauce, warm apple cake
Servings: 10
Author: Barbara
Two sets of Cake Instructions Follow: Homemade Apple Cake or Shortcut Apple Cake using Canned Apple Pie Filling
Homemade Apple Cake
- 2 cups apples, peeled and diced
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
Shortcut Apple Cake
- 1 21 oz can Apple Pie Filling
- 1 egg
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
Caramel Sauce
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 Tablespoons flour
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Homemade Apple Cake
Combine diced apples and sugar; let stand until sugar is dissolved into a syrup.
Stir beaten egg into apples and syrup.
Combine flour, ground cinnamon and baking soda. Stir until apple mixture until a cake batter forms.
Pour into a greased 8 x 8 inch baking dish that has been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
Bake at 375 degrees F for 30 - 40 minutes or until set. While the cake is baking, make the caramel sauce.
Shortcut Apple Cake with apple pie filling
Beat egg; add to the apple pie filling.
Sift flour and baking soda. Add to apple mixture and mix well.
Pour into an 8 inch square baking dish that has been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Smooth out the batter the best that you can.
Bake at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes or until set. While the cake is baking, make the caramel sauce.
Caramel Sauce
In a saucepan, heat brown sugar, white sugar, flour and water over medium heat. Bring to a rolling boil, and let boil for 1 minutes. Turn off heat.
Add butter and vanilla and stir until completely smooth.
Pour hot caramel sauce over hot apple cake right out of the oven.
Serve is as a warm apple cake or refrigerate to let the caramel sauce thicken. This can be done overnight.
Notes about this Homemade Apple Cake
- Love apples? Try Grandma's Apple Crisp.
- The recipe includes both homemade apple cake and a recipe for a shortcut apple cake using apple pie filling.
- The cake batter seems rather odd at first. It looks like apples coated in a sticky flour mixture. This is normal.
- Once it bakes, it also has a rather unappealing appearance. That's OK too. Once you add the sauce, it makes a gorgeous appearance.
- Substitute margarine for butter in the brown sugar sauce, if desired.
- It is the caramel sauce that makes this cake. It will seem like you are drowning the cake in caramel sauce.
- Serve this as a warm apple cake or refrigerate for later.
- Please note that the caramel sauce thickens up in the refrigerator.