Simple Caramel Apple Pie Cake – a moist cinnamon cake, topped with sweet caramel apples and a buttery crumb topping. It is done in 45 minutes from start to finish, and it’s the perfect cake to enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea once the weather cools.
Pies and tarts aren’t that common in Norway. Whenever you go into a store and ask for a pie pan, they come back with a tart pan. So even though pies aren’t that common here, we still enjoy a lot of the same flavors.
One of them being the fall harvest of sweet apples. An abundance of apples result in sweet bakes in the form of cakes. I am not that fond of the traditional Norwegian apple cake – though I think I’m the odd one here, because my parents and my boyfriend LOVE this cake – and it’s highly popular. It’s filled with almonds and the apples are more inside the cake itself. I chose to use less apples, and placed them on top instead.
Loving the flavors of the cake, so in case I didn’t like the apples, I could just shove them off. I know, I know, I am such a sissy. But this was perfect! This is definitely my kind of apple pie cake. Flavorful, super simple and comforting. And who doesn’t love caramel with apples? A divine combination!
Simple Caramel Apple Pie Cake with Cinnamon Crumb Topping
Pre heat your oven to 180C. Take your 18cm baking pan and cover the bottom with parchment paper and grease the sides.
Mix the dry ingredients together in a small bowl. In another bowl, using a handheld or stand mixer, mix cold butter and sugar into a white and fluffy consistency. Add the egg and vanilla into the sugar mixture. Mix together sour cream and milk.
Alternate between adding the dry flour mixture and the sour cream milk into the sugar mixture. I added 1/3 of the flour mixture, then 1/2 of the sour cream milk, and continue until everything is incorporated. Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan.
Core and peel your apple, and slice into thin slices. Mix with cinnamon. Top your batter with the apple slices. I like to even them out and completely cover the batter. Drizzle caramel on top.
Mix all the ingredients for the cinnamon crumb together using either a cookie cutter or a fork. Mix until the butter is at least pea sized in shape. Cover the apple pie cake with the cinnamon crumb.
Bake in the oven at 180C for around 30-40 minutes, until a toothpick in the cake comes out clean. Cool the apple pie cake in the pan before serving. Drizzle with more caramel, if desired.
To really get into the Fall frame of mind, I suggest eating a slice of this Caramel Apple Pie Cake with a delicious mug of Pumpkin Spice Latte. It’s so easy and ready in about 5 minutes!
Enjoy!
Fall Harvest Treats:
- Apple Honey Brie Toast
- Pumpkin Spice Latte
- Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies
- Blackberry Lemon Cream Cheese Pancakes
- Healthy Pumpkin Soufflé with Maple Pecans and Cream Cheese
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Simple Caramel Apple Pie Cake with Cinnamon Crumb Topping
Ingredients
Cake
- 150 gr flour 1 cup and 3 tbsp
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 70 gr butter 1/4 cup and 2 tsp
- 110 gr sugar 1/2 cup and 2 tsp
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 60 ml sour cream 1/4 cup
- 60 ml milk 1/4 cup
Apples
- 170 gr apples Around 2 small apples
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp salted caramel sauce *
Cinnamon Crumb
- 2 tbsp white sugar
- 1.5 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 tbsp cold butter
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
The Cake
- Pre heat your oven to 180C. Take your 18cm baking pan and cover the bottom with parchment paper and grease the sides.
- Mix the dry ingredients together in a small bowl. In another bowl, using a handheld or stand mixer, mix cold butter and sugar into a white and fluffy consistency. Add the egg and vanilla into the sugar mixture. Mix together sour cream and milk.
- Alternate between adding the dry flour mixture and the sour cream milk into the sugar mixture. I added 1/3 of the flour mixture, then 1/2 of the sour cream milk, and continue until everything is incorporated. Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan.
The Apples
- Core and peel your apple, and slice into thin slices. Mix with cinnamon. Top your batter with the apple slices. I like to even them out and completely cover the batter. Drizzle caramel on top.
The Cinnamon Crumb
- Mix all the ingredients for the cinnamon crumb together using either a cookie cutter or a fork. Mix until the butter is at least pea sized in shape. Cover the apple pie cake with the cinnamon crumb.
Bake it!
- Bake in the oven at 180C for around 30-40 minutes, until a toothpick in the cake comes out clean. Cool the apple pie cake in the pan before serving. Drizzle with more caramel, if desired.
You had me at caramel apple. My absolute favorite thing about fall is caramel apples! I will definitely be making this!!
I’m glad! Thank you so much, Amanda. 🙂
This looks divine! I might have to try this out in a few weekends for a work potluck!
That sounds like fun, hope everyone will like it! Thank you, dear
Mmmm…what a delicious caramel apple-pie cake! Such a beautiful, yummy recipe to welcome the fall season. And your images: fantastic!!
Thank you so much!! I love caramel, apple, pies and cakes, so this is a given 🙂
That pie looks amazing! Anything with apple is yummy. I’m so hungry looking at your photos =)
Thank you so much!
caramel apple cinnamon….mmmmmyummmm and i am drooling at the photo. will be trying this out
Thank you so much, Vidya! Hope you’ll like it.
This looks so delicious! I love everything with apples! I love that you use both white and brown sugar to develop the flavor!
Thank you so much!
wow, this looks amazing! yum! I am such a sucker for anything with caramel on it! This puts me in the mood for fall!
I am too! Thank you so much, Kristen.
This apple pie cake is getting me excited about the cooler weather to come. I can’t wait for my kitchen to smell like apple pie cake!
It’s a wonderful smell. Thank you so much!
Combing a cake and pie, genius. Using a cake as the crust of the pie makes it easier to bake and more delicious.
Thank you so much. It’s a lot easier and faster too than a pie!
This looks incredible! I love the combination of cake and pie. Definitely going to make this with fall approaching.
Thank you so much!
Ooh! This is just in time for Fall! It looks delicious and such a great treat for the coming season:)
Thank you so much, dear!
I love this twist on an apple pie! Looks delicious!
Kasey Ma
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Thank you, Kasey Ma!
LOVE apple anything and this is perfect in time for fall! Love your lattice work, beautiful!
Thank you so much, Michelle! It’s actually the apples that made that beautiful pattern!
Omg drool! This looks and sounds amazing. I can’t wait for fall to start making all of these fantastic recipes!
Fall has already begun here, although it’s pretty warm today. Hope you’ll love it as much as I did. Thank you so much!
What a delicious way to celebrate apple season. Although I do not like the cold weather, a nice warm FALL with chilly nights is perfect. We do enjoy going to the apple orchard (minus the wasps buzzing around our head) to pick apples. This is the perfect place to use them too. YUM!!
Let’s hope Fall won’t get too cold where you are. I love apple picking season. Thank you so much!
This seriously looks like the most perfect fall dessert. I was just thinking it was about time to make some kind of apple treat. As always, such lovely photos as well!
Perfect! Hope you’ll like it. 🙂 Thank you so much, Amanda!
My husband would love this. May be I’ll make it for his birthday in a few weeks!
Lucky husband. Thank you so much!
Oh goodness, this looks absolutely amazing. Totally a melt in your mouth experience. I love apple desserts, this one will definitely get made sometime soon. Yummy!
Thank you so much, Alexis!
What a great way to bring in fall. I love apple pies, so I am certain I will enjoy this cake. I can just imagine the smell of the apples and cinnamon as the cake bakes. Not to mention a great alternative to the traditional pumpkin pie dessert for Thanksgiving.
It smells so good in the entire house when baking cakes like these. Thank you so much!
Apple cakes are my favourite desserts! This one looks divinely delicious. I love the addition of caramel
Thank you so much!
What a nice dessert for this autumn season. Love caramel and apples and your idea of pairing them with a cake are fabulous. I am attending a meeting with friends and I need to bring dessert making yours for sure looks such a winner recipe to surprise them all!
Thank you so much! I hope you and your friends will love it, enjoy!
that cake looks so amazing – would love a piece right now with the coffee I am drinking and the crumb topping really puts it over the top!
The crumb topping is so delicious! I think I need to have crumb topping on everything now.. Thank you so much!
Oh my word! This looks like the ultimate fall dessert! I definitely need to make this one 🙂
Thank you so much, dear Stephanie!