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 mins
Cook Time30 mins
Total Time40 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.