This easy apple cake recipe is made with few ingredients, it’s simple and so delicious you’ll probably want to eat the uncooked batter too. Enjoy the homemade apple cake for dessert or for breakfast with your coffee or tea.
This is another one of those recipes my daughter made and decided to contribute to this blog. It’s a super simple, few-ingredients easy cake with apples.
What’s In This Easy Apple Cake?
There are just 7 simple ingredients in this easy, yet addictive cake with apples. You probably have them in your kitchen right now, let’s check:
- sugar
- coconut oil (or butter)
- an apple
- flour
- baking powder
- eggs
- vanilla
Yes? Well, now it’s time to make the cake.
How to Make This Easy APPLE CAKE?
You only need a bowl and something to whisk or blend, as well as a baking pan.
Place the all ingredients aside from the apples into a bowl. Then blend them or if you’re in for an arm workout – whisk.
Pour the batter into the baking pan and top with the sliced apple. If you wish – you can also add some more apple chunks into the batter.
Bake at 350 F / 180 C.
Once the top is golden brown, take out of the oven and let the cake cool off. Then slice and enjoy!
So Many More Options
This apple cake has the sweetest, most delicious vanilla flavor, but if you want to change things up, here are some more options for you to try
- Add cinnamon. Add a teaspoon of cinnamon to the batter and to the apples – it will bring a different, but also great flavor.
- Saute the apples: if you have a bit more time, you can saute the apples before spreading them over the batter. In this case, you’ll need two and not just one apple. Slice the apples and then cook in a large pan with coconut and cinnamon. Optionally, you can add a bit of sugar here – usually not needed if you’re using sweet apples. In about 5-10 minutes, the apples will be done and you can spread them over the batter.
- Top with a crumble. If you want to make this cake into something super special, then you can top everything with a crumble. A crumble is easily made – 2 parts flour with 1 part butter or coconut oil and 1 part sugar. Knead this into a crumbly dough, form small crumbles and top your cake. Bake and then serve warm with some ice cream…I know, it’s a completely different recipe, but we’re allowed to daydream, right?
Easy Apple Cake
Super delicious easy apple cake made with few ingredients that you can make in one bowl! Enjoy this simple homemade dessert with your coffee or tea in the morning or afternoon.
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 3 heaping tbsp coconut oil
- 4 heaping tbsp sugar
- 5 heaping tbsp flour
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 apple, sliced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/ 350F.
- Beat or blend together all ingredients except the apple until you get a smooth batter. The batter should be pretty similar in thickness to crepe batter. You can have a taste to determine whether the batter needs more sugar or vanilla. Just be careful, this batter is addictive, but not safe to eat too much of as eating raw eggs isn't the best thing you can do.
- Grease a baking pan with coconut oil or butter, or line with parchment paper. Pour in the batter evenly.
- Top with the apple slices and put in the oven.
- Bake until golden brown. The cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. (around 30 minutes, but please be sure to check on your cake after 20 minutes as ovens can be shockingly different!)
Nutrition Information
Yield 9 Serving Size 1Amount Per Serving Calories 124Total Fat 7gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 2gCholesterol 83mgSodium 195mgCarbohydrates 12gFiber 1gSugar 8gProtein 3g
Please note that the nutritional values are just estimates.
If you’ve made this recipe, please share your feedback in the comments or on my Pinterest page – it helps me a lot! Thank you!
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This recipe was originally published in November 2019 and last updated on August 29th 2025.