French Apple Cake

Name: French Apple Cake
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 3 piece red apples (Pink Lady), peeled and diced; 100 g unsalted butter, softened; 0.75 cup caster sugar; 3 piece large eggs, room temperature; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1.33 cup plain flour; 1.25 tsp baking powder; 0.25 tsp cooking salt; 1 tbsp icing sugar, for dusting; 4 scoop vanilla ice cream

A lovely simple traditional French apple cake, beautifully moist and packed with diced apple. Serve warm or at room temperature with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

1h 5m 8 servingsRecipeTin Eats Source

Extracted by chinwei271Extracted 30 Jun 2026

Nutrition· per serving · estimated

230

Calories

Protein

33g

Carbs

10g

Fat

Scale recipe

8 servings

Original recipe

Ingredients10 items

Produce

🍎red apples (Pink Lady), peeled and diced3 piece

Dairy

🧈unsalted butter, softened100 g

🥚large eggs, room temperature3 piece

Frozen

🍨vanilla ice cream4 scoop

Pantry

🍬caster sugar¾ cup

🍦vanilla extract1 tsp

🌾plain flour1⅓ cup

🥄baking powder1¼ tsp

🍬icing sugar, for dusting1 tbsp

Spices

🧂cooking salt¼ tsp

Instructions

1
Quick version - Cream butter then sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, then vanilla. Beat in dry ingredients, stir through apple. Bake in 23cm/9" pan at 180°C/350°F (160°C fan) for 30 minutes.
2
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F (160°C fan-forced).
3
Cake pan - Butter a 23cm/9" round cake pan and line the base with baking paper. No need to line the sides.
4
Dry ingredients - In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
5
Cream butter and sugar - Using a handheld beater or stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat the butter for 1 minute on medium until creamed. Add the sugar and beat on medium for 1 minute until fluffy and paler yellow.
6
Eggs and vanilla - Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract.
7
Add the flour mixture into the bowl and beat on low until you can no longer see dry flour, then stop beating. You don't want to overmix.
8
Apples - Stir through the diced apples using a spatula. The batter will be quite thick, it's not pourable.
9
Bake - Spread the batter evenly into the prepared cake pan. Bake for 35 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean (if your oven runs cool it could take up to 45 minutes).
35:00 timer
10
Rest and serve - Let the cake rest for 5 minutes in the pan before removing. Cool for a further 10 minutes then serve warm, or let it cool completely on a wire rack. Dust with icing sugar and serve with a scoop of ice cream.
5:00 timer

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CuisineFrench