Apple Cake with Browned Butter Frosting
This delicious and easy Apple Cake with Browned Butter Frosting is perfect for fall baking!
So I made cake. And then I ate cake. And then I couldn’t stop eating cake.
So I gave the cake away.
Which is now someone else’s problem. And problem it for sure is. This apple cake is absolutely, insanely delicious. And oh yeah, there’s a perfect brown butter frosting that will change your life.
I’m usually not a huge bundt cake girl, because 1) the damn cakes always stick to the pan and 2) there is never enough frosting. But, in recent years I’ve made peace with the fact that it might stick to the pan (enter frosting).
But when I discovered Kentucky Butter Cake I knew I had to come around the bundt side of things. And fast.
The cake batter is super easy. It’s a thick batter, but the apples give it moisture!
Mix the chopped apples into the batter and spread it into your pan, which you need to grease to within an inch of it’s life.
Bake it up and your house will smell like fall.
Give it about 10 minutes to cool in the pan and then pray and surrender your first born child to the “Please-Don’t Let-My-Bundt-Stick-Gods”
Then go ahead and make your frosting. Which is the most delicious browned butter frosting ever in all existence.
Brown your butter and then mix in some powdered sugar…
And then milk and vanilla…
Spread that all over your cake…
And eat that thang.
Seriously, go make this cake.
Description
serves 12
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 3 cups chopped apples, about 3 medium. I used Granny Smith
Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2–3 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350*
- Generously grease a fluted bundt pan (12 cup pan)
- In bowl of stand mixer beat together butter and sugars until light and fluffy, 2-3 minutes.
- Add eggs and vanilla and mix until smooth.
- Add in baking soda, salt and cinnamon and beat until incorporated.
- Turn mixer to low and add in flour. Mix until just combined.
- Stir in chopped apples.
- Fill prepared pan with cake batter and bake for 55-65 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Allow cake to cool in pan for 10 minutes and then remove cake from pan onto a wire rack to continue cooling.
Frosting
- In a small saucepan melt butter and cook over medium heat until butter is a golden color, stirring consistently.
- As soon as butter is golden, remove from heat and beat in powdered sugar, vanilla and 1 tablespoon of milk using a hand mixer. Add more milk until the consistency you desire is reached. if you prefer more of a glaze than a frosting you will need to add a few more tablespoons of milk than the recipe calls for.
- Frost top of cake.
- Slice and serve.
Notes
store at room temperature for up to 3 days covered.
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There is a lady in my church where I grew up and she would make an apple cake that looks similar to this one! Brings back great memories, and I also love old fashion cakes like this one! Can’t wait to try this one!
This looks ahhhhhhhmazing!!
Ahh!! Brown butter frosting and apple cake!! Yes, please!
This cake looks amazing… perfect for the fall. I live on south America where there’s no such thing as fall. but the cake is perfect for this time of the year.
Looks so yummy. Thanks for sharing
Ummm totally wish we were neighbors cause I’d be glad to take this cake off your hands!
I’ve never tried browned butter in anything yet, for some reason it scares me! This looks great though, so maybe I will try and give it a go!
Anything browned butter (butter for that matter) and I am so into it!.
No wonder I love apples, they make the best type of fruit cake.
I made apple cake for the first time a few years ago and was kinda surprised how much I liked it! Love that you topped it with browned butter frosting!
This looks like fall in a cake! I have not really made a whole lot of bundt cakes but this looks fabulous!
Oooh this looks so good! Dang, I may have to dig my bundt pan out. Scary thing. Last time I used it, I greased, twice, and floured and it still stuck 🙁
Just give it a good shake after about ten minutes. Shake it all around and up and down to loosen it in the pan, then place a plate over the pan and flip it. Cake should come out whole!!
Browned butter frosting is my life. I could probably live on it.
I swear, I am not sure what I find most amazing……..your recipes or your musings! I am never sure what to look at first……the recipe and pics or your so entertaining narratives! Thanks so much!
I have never made apple cake before, but you top it with brown butter frosting, and I want the whole pan!
This looks so stinken good!!!!! I love a good apple cake.
Mmm, browned butter frostinggg. I bet it’s perfect with apple cake! Looks amazing. 🙂
That frosting looks perfect! Love this cake!
I love the chunks of apples in this!!
I’ve been looking for an apple cake recipe to try out…. This is a winner I think! looks divine!!
Saw this link on zite! Brown butter frosting sounds AMAZING! Cannot wait to try!
This cake sounds DANGEROUS!
I can never stay away from apples and browned butter. What a dream. A lovely autumnal dream.
Looks completely delicious! I love making bundt cakes but hate my pan!
That frosting! Pass me a spoon!
Adore all that frosting on the cake, lovely! Plus the apple chunks inside are screaming fall!
Oh my goodness what a gorgeous cake!! I’ll take a side of frosting please 🙂 xoxo
Love the chunks of apples in the cake and the frosting!!
This looks so good—and I haven’t heard of browned butter frosting in ages! Can’t wait to make this—even if I eat the whole thing by myself! Thanks!
Was there by chance any thing left out of the recipe, like oil? I just whipped it up and it seems pretty dry. I looked on other recipe sites and they all had oil listed. I added oil to mine. Hope I didn’t mess it up!
There is a whole cup of butter in the recipe, that is enough, trust me! I can’t imagine why your batter would be dry…
Let me know how it came out!
That cake looks amazing! Going on my fall baking list. And my husband and I just binge-watched the second season of Scandal in a few days. Gotta love Netflix! Ah! Can’t wait for season 3!
are you using cake flour? or just all purpose? self rising?
What kind of flour are you using?
white, all purpose
This is my dream dessert! Love all that fresh fruit and can practically taste the frosting through my screen 🙂 It was great seeing you this week in NYC, Shelly!
I made this last weekend…and it was unbelievable! And, it received so many rave reviews it has moved to the top of my fall baking list! Thanks so much for sharing — keep your awesome, tasty recipes!
Sorry!! The last sentence should have read “keep your awesome, tasty recipes COMING!” 🙂
I made this cake twice this week, it was so moist. Brought one to work and they devoured it.
Thanks for the great recipe.
Okay, I can`t read your blog at night anymore. All I want to do is stuff myself with all of these fantastic desserts. Yes to cake. And, yes to apples in the cake!!
Hi,
I just found this recipe through Goldenstar’s Post on CSTM and I love it! I love cakes and apples, so this might be a perfect combination 🙂
I’ve got one tip for you to get your cake easy out of the bundtpan (in the Netherlands it’s called Tulband, no idea where that comes from lol): Grease the pan with a bit of butter and sprinkle some flour in it, make sure the flour coats the whole pan. Then pour in the cake batter. Once the cake is done, get the cake out of the oven, wait for about 15 minutes before putting your cake out of the pan on a roster to further cool down. It will drop out of the pan easily each time!
I have found that the Wilt on spray works really well on bundy cakes. I took one of their classes a year ago and it works so much better than Pam or Cisco spray. Don’t know why, but I have not had a problem since I used it.
I do not have a paddle attachment like the one you’re using to mix the sugar and butter. I only have handheld mixer with whisk attachment. Can I use the whisk attachment to beat butter and sugar to make the batter?
Yep, Just don’t crank it all the way up!
Making this cake for the second time this week. Delicious and stays moist for so long. I did bake it for a few minutes less than specified. It was done. I can’t wait for it to come out of the oven! Yum!!! Great recipe!!
Thank you for posting such a fabulous recipe. I just took this out of the oven a few minutes ago and I cannot wait to dig in. My 3 year old daughter just got to experience brown butter frosting for the first time and I have to say I think she is in love too.
hahaha! Awesome!!
I am late to the party but just saw this recently. Made it immediately. Added a little extra spices (cardamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg) and a cup of cinnamon chips. This is one of the best cakes I’ve ever had, and I don’t even like apple cakes!! Thanks for the great recipe!
I don’t normally leave feedback on recipes, good or bad, but this frosting is one of the best things I’ve ever put in my mouth and I felt like you should know that 🙂 I made this last night for my mom’s birthday and she loved it!
I love this!!! Made my night!!
Can I use a regular 9×13 pan? Will bake time vary?
Yes, bake time will absolutely vary. I would start it at 25 minutes and go from there!
So maybe now I have two “go to” desserts! The fudge filled vanilla looks awesome but this one looks out of control! Will be testing these out in the near future and will need testers! I am gluten intolerant and hubby is diabetic but need a good cake for potluck at the church. Thanks so much for the post, will try them out soon and deliver to someone in need of some loving form the oven!
Hi- This cake looks amazing!!! Do you think it would still turn out yummy if I were to replace half the butter in the recipe for the cake with applesauce? Have you ever tried that? Thanks!
I haven’t ever tried it, but I am betting it would work!!
Hi – I want to try this recipe as it sounds gorgeous. I only have a 6 cup size tin though. Please can you tell me how long I would have to cook it for, and what temperature, if I used this tin. Many thanksxxx
★★★★★
Made the cake and it is delicious! So is the frosting, but I made mine too thin. I wanted it to look like the picture, but it ran down the sides. But that was okay, I just frosted it all. I will make this again and again. Mine came out of the pan in the 10 minutes as suggested. I sprayed it with non-stick cooking spray really well. Sent 3 pieces to my neighbor who loved it. Took 6 pieces to my son and his family. The cake was inhaled there!
This is a great recipe. Made it a few months ago exactly as the recipe says- worked beautifully. Getting ready to make another one today.
Holy Cow this cake is awesome. I did a test run on it last night to see if it was something I wanted to take to party on Thursday. It is not hard to make and everyone at work that I shared it with loved it. It is very rich so I cut it into fairly small slices. This will become a go to. The brown butter frosting makes it rather unique.
Love that frosting!!
can you please put them in grams?
If I wanted to make cupcakes, do you know approximate cooking time?
I just saw this recipe 3 hours ago and made it. I didn’t wait for the cake to cool and had a warm piece slathered with frosting. HOLY COW, I died and went to heaven. I am making this for Thanksgiving. I am sure your pumpkin version is equally delicious. Thank you!
LOVE hearing this! So glad you liked it!!
My frosting come out really runny. Should I add more powdered sugar? I followed the recipe. I don’t want a glaze. Help
Yes, you can easily thicken it up with more frosting!
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