'Jewish Apple Cake' 🍎 Good any time! What's not to love!

[sprinkleeninow]

Last edited Mon May 29, 2023, 12:23 AM - Edit history (1)

Jewish Apple Cake comes from Ashkenazi culture, where it's a part of many families' Rosh Hashanah celebrations. Every slice is dense, sweet, and loaded with cinnamon sugar and jammy apple flavors that will get you grinning! Jewish Apple Cake is made completely without dairy thanks to the inclusion of sunny orange juice, so it's perfect for folks keeping kosher and folks with dairy allergies. This cake is rustic, festive, and beloved... just take a bite and you'll see why!

Ingredients:
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 cups plus 5 teaspoons white sugar, divided
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup orange juice
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced

Directions:
Step 1 -
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Step 2 -
Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.

Step 3 -
Combine the cinnamon and 5 teaspoons of white sugar. Set the cinnamon sugar aside.

Step 4 -
In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking powder, and the remaining sugar.

Step 5 -
Stir in the vegetable oil, the beaten eggs, orange juice, and the vanilla, mixing well.

Step 6 -
Pour 1/2 of the batter into the prepared pan.

Step 7 -
Add 1/2 of the apple slices and 1/2 of the cinnamon-sugar mixture to the tube pan on top of the batter.

Step 8 -
Repeat the layers with the remaining batter, apples, and cinnamon sugar.

Step 9 -
Bake until golden-brown and cooked through, when a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, about 70-90 minutes.

Step 10 -
Serve!

Attribution: Heartland Cooking

[elleng]

1. What's not to love?

3 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced!!!

[OilemFirchen]

2. My grandmother accidently dumped a bag of chocolate chips into an apple cake batter.

It was so amazing that we convinced her to never make another cake without them. My mother carried on the tradition, as have I.

Trust me, it's vunderlekh.

[FakeNoose]

3. Wow, this sounds awesome

I don't usually make cakes from scratch, but I think I want to try this one.

Thank you for the recipe!

[sprinkleeninow]

4. 👊

[Warpy]

5. I used to make this for work once a month or so

I loved it but it was just too much for one person.

I found the apple layers worked best if the apples were sliced very thinly with a mandoline. My recipe didn't use the orange juice, good thing because I'm allergic to it.

The cake batter tends to be very stiff, so I just sort of dropped spoonfuls over the apple slices. It all evened out during baking.