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Apple Coffee Cake

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings 8

Ingredients

Apple Cake:

  • 4 cups apple ~4 large apples peeled cored, and diced into ½” cubes (don’t use too sweet of an apple—we love pink crisps or gravensteins)
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 ¼ cup sugar 250 g
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon cardamom
  • ½ teaspoon ginger
  • ½ cup butter melted 113 g
  • 2 cups flour 240 g
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

Crumble:

  • 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour 180 grams
  • 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar 100 grams
  • 1/4 cup white sugar 50 grams
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 grams
  • 1 stick butter 113 grams
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Instructions

Brown sugar crumb:

  • Add the flour, brown sugar, sugar, and salt to a medium bowl. Stir to combine
  • Pour in the melted butter and almond extract. Mix together until large crumbs form. Set aside
    crumble

Apple cake:

  • Preheat oven to 350
  • In a large bowl, add diced apples, vanilla and eggs. Stir until combined
    apple cake batter
  • Add sugar, cinnamon,ginger, cardamon and butter. Stir until combined
  • Add flour, salt, and baking soda. Stir again until combined
    apple cake batter
  • Grease a 9 inch cake pan and pour in the batter. Spread the batter in an even layer with a spatula.
    apple cake before baking
  • Top with the cake batter with the prepared crumble.
    apple crumb cake
  • Bake for 60-80 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. (this will vary by oven so check it with a toothpick starting at around 55 minutes)