★ Favorite · Dessert

Apple Cake

— Teddie’s Apple Cake —

Yields

8 servings

Total Time

1 hours 30 minutes

Source

Updated

2026-05-06

Vegan

Sweet

In a modern world of Cinnamon Hot Pockets and Pecan Pie Pringles, apple-picking is one of the few agricultural rituals we can all still get our hands into. This cake — a classic from 1973 — is a godsend to anyone who has overloaded at the pick-your-own orchard or overbought at the farmers’ market. Like many simple cakes, this one uses neutral oil that lets the fruit flavor come through, rather than show-offy butter.

· · · Method · · ·

Butter for greasing pan
3 cups flour, plus more for dusting pan
1½ cups vegetable oil
1½ cups sugar
3 large eggs
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking soda
1-2 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups peeled, cored and thickly sliced tart apples, like Honeycrisp or Granny Smith
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup raisins
Vanilla ice cream (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 9-inch tube pan or normal pan. Beat the oil and sugar together in a mixer (fitted with a paddle attachment) while assembling the remaining ingredients. After about 5 minutes, add the eggs and beat until the mixture is creamy.

Sift together 3 cups of flour, the salt, cinnamon and baking soda. Stir into the batter. Add the vanilla, apples, walnuts and raisins and stir until combined.

Transfer the mixture to the prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour and 5 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan before turning out. Serve at room temperature with vanilla ice cream, if desired.