Apples are the star ingredient in this Dorset Apple Cake. You’ll find apples inside and on top of the cake! Made with all butter and no oil for rich taste.
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This Dorset Apple Cake can be a day-long adventure (at least it was for me)! Because it’s best eaten on the day it is baked, I’d recommend that you bake it first thing in the morning.
Once it’s out of the oven, have a slice with a heap of yogurt and a mug of coffee for breakfast. When afternoon tea rolls around, lightly warm up another slice and serve it with clotted cream. And if you really fancy it, it’s also tasty for dessert with a spoonful of vanilla ice cream.
Dorset Apple Cakes come in all different shapes, sizes and types. Some recipes are made with raisins or currants. Some recipes add some cinnamon and spices. Even the shape the apples are cut into can be different: either as chunks to put into the cake or sliced as decorations on top of the cake.
This Dorset Apple Cake has apples inside the cake and on top of the cake
And depending on the look you are going for, a Dorset Apple Cake can be baked in a round cake tin, made into a large tray bake, baked in muffin tins, or even baked in a loaf pan.
For this Dorset Apple Cake recipe, apples are the star ingredient (no distracting raisins or currants) with a touch of cinnamon. I cut the apples into small chunks and put half inside the cake, and half on top of the cake.
The beautiful caramelized apples on top of this Dorset Apple Cake make this cake a show stopper
That way, the apples lend moisture into the cake, but you also get the beautiful effect of the sugar-coated browned apples piled on top.
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We haven’t been to Dorset before, but it’s definitely on my list! I cannot wait to go visit just so I can try some other Apple Dorset Cakes.
Enjoy this Dorset Apple Cake for breakfast with a heap of yogurt and a mug of coffee
Dorset Apple Cake
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter - at room temperature
- 3/4 cup lightly packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 4 medium eggs
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 pounds cooking apples (or about 3 large apples) - peeled, cored and cut into 1/2-inch (2-cm) pieces (I used a mix of Bramley and Granny Smith)
- 2 tablespoons turbinado sugar (demerara sugar)
- powdered sugar (icing sugar) (for finishing)
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C. Line the bottom of an 8-inch (20-cm) springform pan with parchment paper and lightly oil the sides of the pan. Set aside.
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In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
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In a separate large bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, cream together the butter and sugars until smooth and lighter in color, about 5 minutes. Beat in the eggs, milk and vanilla extract.
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Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and mix until just combined.
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Add two-thirds of the batter into the prepared pan, and using a spatula, spread the batter until it's even. Evenly layer on half of the apple pieces. Add in the remaining batter, and using a spatula, carefully spread the batter until it's even. Evenly layer on the remaining apples. Evenly sprinkle the demerara sugar over the apples. Place in the middle of the oven and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake.
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Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing the cake and transferring it to a cooling rack.
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Dust with powdered sugar once the cake has cooled.
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Looking very nice and delicious also. I’m trying to make the cake for my family. Thanks for your sharing.
Can it be frozen?
It freezes incredibly well!
WOW, This cake is amazing!
So easy to make and absolutely scrummy.
Thank Cottages & Tina
Hi Sabrina – thanks for the comment! I’m loving all the apples this fall — apple cake, apple cake apple cake :)
This looks amazing, and I’m putting it on my to-bake list after we visit the apple orchards next month! My favorite way to eat it would be with clotted cream…it just enhances the flavor of whatever it’s served with!
This cake is beautiful. I would be happy to eat it all day!
This looks perfectly moist, love it! I love that the fruit is right inside the cake as well as just on top. Yum :)
Fruit inside, fruit on top. I just tried to pack in as many apples as I could :)
Sometimes I think the world is just overrun with chocolate desserts and people have forgotten how great non-chocolate cakes can be. This looks fabulously moist and very appealing.
Thanks, Mark. Apple season is finally here, so I hope you get to enjoy this apple cake!
I love that this cake is an all day affair. As you listed off the different ways it can be enjoyed, I just kept drooling more and more! I know what I’ll be making next time I have guests!
Yes yes, this is a go-to when there are guests over! Otherwise, I find myself eating the entire cake by myself.. every 2 hours, I grab a slice ;)
So when are we going to Dorset??
Oh that really looks fancy up scale apply cake and healthy too. I love to eat that.
That looks so delicious I can’t even stand it. WOW! I love the idea of having a cake to eat all day–from breakfast to afternoon tea to dessert.