Bake the best apple walnut cake with our easy recipe. This is moist and soft, packed with fresh apples, crunchy and toasted walnuts, and warm cinnamon flavor. Perfect for tea time, desserts, or occasions.
Walnut apple cake
If you are looking for a perfectly moist and flavorful cake, this apple walnut cake is all you need. This easy apple walnut cake requires simple ingredients and delivers bakery-style results. Loaded with fresh apples, toasted walnuts, and warm cinnamon, this is ideal for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and cozy fall and holiday baking.
Also heck out our most popular pear bread recipe, peanut butter banana bread, double chocolate banana bread and crisp cinnamon apple bread.
Ingredients
Apples: Soft and moist texture, fruit flavor, and natural sweetness. You can use Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, etc.
Walnuts: Add crunch and nutty flavor, best when toasted.
Dry Ingredients
Flour: Forms structure.
Baking soda: helps the cake rise, making it soft and fluffy.
Sugar: Use brown or white.
Cinnamon: Adds warmth.
Wet ingredients
Butter: Adds moistness and rich flavor.
Eggs: Bind and improve texture.
Yogurt: Extra moist, soft, and tender.
Check out the recipe card for the full list of ingredients.
Step-by-step instructions
- Preheat the oven to 305 degrees (175 degrees C).F.
- Grease a bread loaf pan or line it with parchment paper, and set it aside.
- To a bowl, add flour, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon powder. Mix all the dry ingredients together.
- In another bowl, whisk together butter, yogurt, and eggs. Now add the dry ingredients to this and whisk until just combined.
- Scrape the sides of the bowl.
- Add the apples and walnuts, and fold them into the batter.
- Transfer to a cake pan and top with some walnuts (optional).
- Bake for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let it cool for 10 minutes. Then transfer it to a wire rack. Once cooled completely, slice and enjoy.
- Store in an airtight container for 2-3 days or refrigerate for longer freshness.
Tips
- Use fresh apples for the best flavor.
- Toast the walnuts.
- Do not overmix the batter.
- You can sprinkle cinnamon sugar or powdered sugar on top for a bakery-style finish, especially during the Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays.
- For caramel apple walnut cake, drizzle caramel sauce on top.
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Recipe card
Apple Walnut Cake | Apple Walnut Bread
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups Flour
- ¾ cup Brown sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoon Baking soda
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- ½ cup Butter melted
- ⅓ cup Yogurt
- 2 Eggs
- 3 Apples peeled and chopped
- ⅔ cups Walnut toasted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 305 degrees (175 degrees C).F.
- Grease a bread loaf pan or line it with parchment paper, and set it aside.
- To a bowl, add flour, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon powder. Mix all the dry ingredients together.1 ½ cups Flour, ¾ cup Brown sugar, 1 ½ teaspoon Baking soda, ½ teaspoon Salt, 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- In another bowl, whisk together butter, yogurt, and eggs. Now add the dry ingredients to this and whisk until just combined.½ cup Butter, ⅓ cup Yogurt, 2 Eggs
- Scrape the sides of the bowl.
- Add the apples and walnuts, and fold them into the batter.3 Apples, ⅔ cups Walnut
- Transfer to a cake pan and top with some walnuts (optional).
- Bake for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Let it cool for 10 minutes. Then transfer it to a wire rack. Once cooled completely, slice and enjoy.
- Store in an airtight container for 2-3 days or refrigerate for longer freshness.
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Jet says
This is the perfect mix of a cake and a quick bread. It’s super moist from the apples, and the walnuts give it a really nice crunch. It was even better the next morning with my coffee!