Apple Coffee Cake
Buttery, moist coffee cake filled with spiced apples.
Ingredients
Coffee Cake
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 4 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup milk, room temperature
Apple Mixture
- 2 cups peeled and diced apples
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 6 tbsp butter melted
- 1/2 cup flour
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
Coffee Cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9"'x13" baking pan. Set aside
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, sugar, and brown sugar for about 2-3 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time, and add vanilla. Mix until well combined.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Alternate adding flour and milk to egg mixture. Stir until combined. Set aside
Apple Mixture
- In a large bowl, combine apples, brown sugar, melted butter, flour, cinnamon and salt. Evenly coat apples and set aside.
Assemble
- In prepared baking pan, spread half of the cake batter. Top with half the apple mixture and repeat. Use a butter knife to gently swirl batter and apples.
- Bake for 45-55 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out with only a few moist crumbs. Let cake cool to room temperature.
Notes
- When making apple mixture, adjust flour and apple ratio depending upon the juiciness of your apples. Mixture should be somewhere between wet and a dry crumble.
- Cake can be stored in an air-tight container for 2-3 days.
- Cooled cake can be wrapped in plastic and foil and frozen for up to 3 months.
- Adapted from Mom on Time Out