Healthy Apple Chunk Cake
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Bake a Moist Apple Cake Filled with Fresh Fruit
There's no finer way to enjoy fall orchard's bounty and warm up a chilly house than by baking a slightly spiced, fresh apple cake filled with your favorite variety of tangy, sweet apples.
Autumn is apple-picking time, and families love to visit the orchard for a day of fun and fresh air in the country at a pick-your-own orchard or rural farm stand. Apple cake made from just-picked apples is delicous,but it's is doubly tasty when you bake it in mid-winter. After a few months of cold storage, cold storage apples are starting to soften and they taste even sweeter than in the fall. Warm up the house and perk up a dull wintry day with a freshly baked apple cake warm from the oven.
Ingredients for fresh apple spice cake are simple and flexible. You can use your favorite apple variety, modify or reduce the sweeteners and use white flour instead of whole wheat flour if you wish - suit your own taste with this easy, moist and delicious apple cake recipe.
You'll still end up with a moist and delicious cake that won't last more than a day or two because it's so delicious. If your home made apple cake does last longer than a day without being devoured, it will become moister and the spices will mellow to perfection.
Pick Your Own Apples at the Orchard
Apple Harvest Day - Fun for the Whole Family
My home in Pennsylvania is not far from Rodale Farms, the pioneers of organic gardening and sustainable agriculture in the USA. Every fall Rodale holds an Organic Apple Festival and one of the highlights of the day for families in the area is the opportunity to pick your own apples. The trees are small and even youngsters can reach the apples on the branches. Bonus for everyone - no pesticides on these organic apples.
Apple Spice Cake Recipe - Ingredients Notes
Use your favorite cooking or eating apple to make this fresh apple cake. I use Macintosh or Cortland apples - my family's favorites. Macintosh apples have just enough natural sweetness and juice to bake into a perfect apple cake.
I don't peel my apples because I like the added nutrition and fruitiness they give to the cake, but you can remove the peels before coring and chopping your apples.
Apple Machine - Peels, Cores and Slices All At Once
These apple gizmo machines have been around since the 1800's
Pinzon Apple and Potato Peeler, Corer, and Slicer
Amazon Price: (as of 02/13/2012)
Peels, cores and slices apples or potatoes in one operation. Cast-iron peeler with easy turn handle and stainless steel blades has a suction base to hold it to your work surface. Older style versions (also available) use a turn-screw to attache the base to a table or counter top.
Old Man Apple Tree - Ancient Orchard Guardian
Our 50-year-old apple tree got a haircut this spring - doesn't he look pleased?
Fresh Apple Cake Recipe
It's Printable!
- Serves: 12
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: approx. 50 minutes
Ingredients
- 4 cups coarsely chopped apples (about 4 to 5 large apples cut into 1-inch pieces)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- beaten
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 cups flour (white and whole wheat or a combination of the two)
- 1/4 cup wheat germ
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. (325 degrees if using a glass baking dish)
Combine apples, sugars, oil, eggs, nuts and vanilla in a large bowl. Set aside.
Mix dry ingredients together, then stir in by hand to apple mixture. Stir gently to combine - don't over beat!
Pour batter into a greased and floured 13" x 9" x 2" baking pan and spread gently - it will be thick.
Bake in center of oven on middle rack for 50 minutes, or until cake pulls away slightly from sides of pan.
Cool in pan on rack. Dust with confectioner's sugar or try a topping variation at serving time such as lemon glaze, whipped cream or ice cream.
The World's Best Apples - Voting (Plexo)
Vote for your favorite apple variety here
I grew up in New England where the Macintosh apple is king of cold climate orchards. It's tart and sweet with smooth crisp white flesh and a crunchy texture. Macs are great for eating out of hand, and they make the best applesauce, apple crisp and fresh apple cake. Best of all, Macs stay fresh a long time in cold storage so you can get them almost all year long.
What's Your Favorite Apple Variety?
Organic Apples - Ready to Pick
I love to go to the orchard and pick apples in the fall
Even very young apple trees will bear fruit. This beautifully perfect organic Delicious apple was the first fruit borne on a very young tree in our daughter's small orchard in Northern Pennsylvania. This little apple was the only one to ripen a year after the tree was planted.
Apple Corer Slicer
When You Don't Need to Peel the Apple
Apple Master Apple Peeler, Corer, and Slicer, Colors Vary
Amazon Price: $19.26 (as of 02/13/2012)
List Price: $29.99
Cores and sections an apple with one motion - center over the stem and press down to cut out the core and divide your apple into bite-size pieces.
Easy Lemon Glaze Cake Topping Recipe
Fresh apple cake needs no topping in my house, but you can embellish it for special occasions with Powdered Sugar or Whipped Cream added just before serving. If you want to get a bit fancier, drizzle each serving of Fresh Apple Cake with Lemon Glaze (recipe below).
Lemon Glaze Topping
Ingredients
1 cup confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar)
1-1/2 Tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 Tablespoon corn syrup
Instructions
Blend all ingredients together until smooth. Drizzle over top of cooled cake, or add to individual portions just before serving.
Autumn Apple Poetry - The Cow in Apple Time
The Cow in Apple Time
Something inspires the only cow of late
To make no more of a wall than an open gate,
And think no more of wall-builders than fools.
Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools
A cider syrup. Having tasted fruit,
She scores a pasture withering to the root.
She runs from tree to tree where lie and sweeten
The windfalls spiked with stubble and worm-eaten.
She leaves them bitten when he has to fly.
She bellows on a knoll against the sky.
Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry.
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Apple Red Mixer - My Favorite Appliance
The gold standard for mixers - Kitchenaid
KitchenAid 4-1/2-Quart Ultra Power Stand Mixer, Empire Red
Amazon Price: $237.49 (as of 02/13/2012)
List Price: $299.99
Made by the same company that makes mixers for the big bakeries (Hobart) - these mixers will last for many years and can handle stiff doughs and big batches easily.
Apple Quotes and Proverbs
Add Your Own Quotes to this Apple List
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
by Robert H. Schuller0 points
Apple Cookbook Collection
Find Your Favorite Cookbooks Here
Apple Snack on Apple Plate
Fresh apples, ready to devour
Apple Facts - Why They're Good for You, Not Just Good to Eat
An apple a day ...
Besides their delicious taste, abundant variety and easy availability year round, apples are also good for you.
- Apples are fat free fruits
- Apples have no sodium
- Apples have plenty of natural fiber
- Apples are low-calorie foods - 1 average size apple contains 80 calories
- Apples have no cholesterol
- Apples have natural color and flavor
But wait, there's even more good news about apples ...
"The water-soluble fiber fraction in apple pectin has been shown to have hypocholesterolemic (cholesterol-lowering) effects. Cholesterol has of course, been identified as a major contributor tocoronary heart disease.
There are some indications that fiber may reduce blood pressure levels. Other studies have demonstrated that diets high in water-soluble fiber are associated with lower blood glucose and serum lipid levels in diabetics.
And of course apples are a good low-calorie source of carbohydrates, helpful in weight control programs. " - Vermont Apples
Photo: apple varieties at Champlain Orchards - Shoreham, Vermont (Lee Hansen/Pastiche)
My Favorite Apple Treats
Apple Goodies - Apple Recipe Lenses
Apple Cooking Apron
Apple Pie - Apron by SharonKMoore
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Apple Lore Lenses - All About Apples
Learn about apples, apple legends, apple orchard care here
Apple Note Cards
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Colored Pencil Apple Life Study Card by TaraLin
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Browse Mixed Media Cards
Macintosh Apples - New Hampshire Orchard Fruit Harvest
My favorite apple for eating and cooking is the tart and sweet New England Macintosh
I love most apple varieties but my favorite is the Macintosh. It's hard to find good Mac apples unless you live in the Northeastern US or Canada. These hardy fruits prefer the soil and climate in New England and New York state to develop their characteristic crisp thin skin and sweet white flesh.
Who's the Apple Cake Baker?
This is my favorite dessert recipe; I hope you enjoy it!
Please Leave a Comment in the Apple Cake Guest Book
Leave a comment, suggestion or a variation you may have tried for your Fresh Apple Cake recipe.
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JaguarJulie
Jan 29, 2012 @ 12:22 pm | delete
- Yumm ... you have put my tastebuds into a major drool today as I surely love apples, particular granny smiths.
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Blueterrace Jan 29, 2012 @ 2:16 am | delete
- I love apples and love cake, so Apple Cake sounds perfect. For something really different try Chicken Cake (http://www.squidoo.com/chicken-cake)
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megabu717
Jan 27, 2012 @ 6:10 pm | delete
- We used to have lots of apple trees in the garden. I love apples in any shape. They taste the best to me when eaten while still seating on tree ;) Great yummy lens. Thanks.
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Lindrus
Jan 26, 2012 @ 1:10 am | delete
- I'll have to try your recipe, sounds delicious!
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ShandiGP
Jan 25, 2012 @ 4:47 pm | delete
- I don't think I've ever tried a Macintosh or a Cortland apple; I don't think they're as easily available in the St. Louis area. I love local Gala and Honeycrisp apples, though, as well as local Granny Smiths!
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seosmm
Jan 25, 2012 @ 8:17 am | delete
- Looks really good. Can't wait to try it! Nice Lens!
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miaponzo
Jan 25, 2012 @ 1:07 am | delete
- I LOVE fresh picked apples!!!! YUM! Blessed!
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jseven
Jan 24, 2012 @ 9:30 pm | delete
- Very yummy! I've eaten the apple cake and it is a favorite cake in my family.
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Nimsrules Jan 24, 2012 @ 4:11 am | delete
- Delicious lens..
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tvyps
Jan 23, 2012 @ 11:19 pm | delete
- There's always tasty things in your kitchen, I'll bet your house smells great! I'll be right over! ha! Blessed
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lasertek
Jan 23, 2012 @ 9:48 pm | delete
- I would like to try this recipe.
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fullofshoes
Dec 27, 2011 @ 9:18 am | delete
- Delish!!! Nice lens.
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simona55
Dec 6, 2011 @ 9:03 am | delete
- Never thought of using fresh apples before. Thanks for sharing.
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cmontijo
Oct 18, 2011 @ 1:08 pm | delete
- Awesome yum yum!
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Apple Cake Recipe Index
- Pick Your Own Apples at the Orchard
- Apple Spice Cake Recipe - Ingredients Notes
- Apple Machine - Peels, Cores and Slices All At Once
- Old Man Apple Tree - Ancient Orchard Guardian
- Fresh Apple Cake Recipe
- The World's Best Apples - Voting (Plexo)
- Organic Apples - Ready to Pick
- Easy Lemon Glaze Cake Topping Recipe
- Autumn Apple Poetry - The Cow in Apple Time
- Apple Red Mixer - My Favorite Appliance
- Apple Quotes and Proverbs
- Apple Cookbook Collection
- Apple Snack on Apple Plate
- Apple Facts - Why They're Good for You, Not Just Good to Eat
- My Favorite Apple Treats
- Apple Goodies - Apple Recipe Lenses
- Apple Cooking Apron
- Apple Lore Lenses - All About Apples
- Apple Note Cards
- Apple Recipes Shared by Bloggers
- Macintosh Apples - New Hampshire Orchard Fruit Harvest
- Who's the Apple Cake Baker?
- Please Leave a Comment in the Apple Cake Guest Book
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