Apple Crumb Cake
Delicious Apple Crumb Cake with tons of apples and the best cinnamon crumb topping ever!
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
Cake Batter
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 tbsp butter melted
- 2 large eggs
- 2 to 3 medium apples washed peeled, cored and chopped (I used Red Delicious)
- 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Crumb topping
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter melted and cooled
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup pecans roughly chopped
Instructions
Crumb Topping
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9-inch square baking pan.
- Prepare your crumb topping by stirring together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a medium bowl. Drizzle this mixture with the melted butter. Toss together with a fork to combine, fluff with fork until mixtures creates crumbs. Set aside.
Cake Batter
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a large measuring cup, mix together milk, vanilla, butter and eggs. Whisk until smooth.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon. Do not over mix. Few lumps in the batter are okay.
- Pour the cake batter into the prepared pan.
- In a medium bowl, toss together apple slices with two tablespoons of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon. Set aside.
- Arrange apple slices over the batter.
- Sprinkle crumb topping over the apples covering completely. Add chopped pecans too.
- Bake the cake for 40 to 45 minutes or until the topping is golden brown.
- Let cool completely in the pan.
- Transfer onto a wire rack. Slice and serve.
- Keep in a covered container for up to 4 days.
Notes
- Use any sweet or tart apples but firm.
- leftovers can be stored in a tight container.