This Apple Streusel Cake Recipe is a delicious twist on traditional coffee cake. I love easy apple recipes like this one. You can serve it for breakfast with some coffee or as an indulgent dessert served with ice cream. Be sure to check out our apple pie muffins using crescent rolls and other family-friendly recipes.
If you want more apple goodness, check out this Apple Crumb Galette Recipe.
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⭐Why This Apple Streusel Cake Recipe Is Awesome
- This moist, cinnamon-spiced cake is the perfect addition to an afternoon tea.
- This is a great recipe to make with the kids because there is plenty of stirring and mixing for them to do.
- Using apple pie filling for this apple cake makes things super easy and gives the cake an apple pie flavor.
- Everyone loves easy desserts like this one!
🥣Ingredient Notes
- Flour - All-purpose flour
- Cinnamon - Provides warmth to the cake and complements the apples.
- Oil - Adds to the moistness of the cake.
- Apple pie filling - Shortcut for making the cake. The apples are already cut and spiced.
- Brown sugar - Used in crumb topping
- Butter - Cold, cubed butter makes for the best streusel topping.
📋How To Make Apple Streusel Coffee Cake
STEP 1: Preheat oven to 375. In a large bowl, combine flour, white sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
STEP 2: In a medium bowl, combine eggs, oil, vanilla extract and milk.
STEP 3: Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredient bowl and stir to combine.
STEP 4: Pour half of the batter into a greased 8x8 or 9x9 pan. Spread apple pie filling over the batter. Pour the remainder of the batter on the top of the apples, covering completely.
STEP 5: For the crumb streusel topping, mix in butter with flour, cinnamon, and brown sugar until crumbs form.
STEP 6: Sprinkle crumbs over the top of the cake.
STEP 7: Bake at 375 degrees F for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If the topping begins to brown too much cover with foil for the remainder of the cooking time. Oven cook times vary so check your cake every so often.
This apple coffee cake recipe made my house smell like Fall. I need to figure out a way to bottle up this scent. Be sure to also check out our Fall Meringue Recipe.
👩🏻🍳Expert Tips
Tip 1: Be sure not to overmix the batter which can result in a dense and tough cake.
Tip 2: Allow the cake to cool completely before serving as they will ensure that the flavors meld perfectly.
🤷🏻♀️Recipe FAQs
I used an 8x8 pyrex baking dish, but a 9x9 would work as well.
You can store this cake in an airtight container at room temperature for 1-2 days or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
You can use either regular butter or unsalted butter.
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📖 Recipe
Apple Streusel Cake Recipe
Equipment
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Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- ¾ cups white sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 can apple pie filling
- for crumb topping:
- ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons softened butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, white sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
- In a medium bowl, combine eggs, oil, vanilla and milk.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredient bowl and mix to combine.
- Pour half of the batter into a greased 8x8 or 9x9 pan.
- Spread apple pie filling over the batter.
- Pour the remainder of the batter on the top of the apples, covering completely.
- For the crumb topping, mix in butter with flour, cinnamon and brown sugar until crumbs form. Sprinkle crumbs over top of cake.
- Bake at 375 for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If the topping begins to brown to much cover with foil for the remainder of the cooking time. Oven cook times vary so check your cake every so often.
Lee says
I made this for a leisurely breakfast, enjoyed it so much I made it a second time to share! Wonderful texture, I added 1/4 tsp salt to my filling for extra flavour and it turns out splendid. 10/10 recommend!
Janice Elliott says
The recipe did not specify what size tin of apples to use,but other then tat it was ok
Ms. F says
Horrible recipe came out doughy/runny around apples and website is glitchy. Be more explicit in your ingredients and instructions next time (SPECIFY the SIZE of the APPLE CAN).
Ms. Fletcher says
I'm sorry but you made me waste precious ingredients. You also didn't specify what size of can so when I used the can I had, I ended up throwing away about 1/4 can left of apples since there way too many. It also came out doughy around the apples in the center, even when I cooked it longer. Perhaps from too many apples. The batter was sort of thick too. I did let the batter sit around a little while (approximately 10 minutes) I was making the topping so that could've been the problem. Well anyways, this is about a 2.5/5 star recipe since there are others that are a lot better especially the taste of home streusel apple muffins. Please be more explicit in your instructions and ingredients next time. Thank you for the lesson.
P.S Don't rig the ratings to only include 5 stars no matter the one chosen. A true baker can take criticism and improve from it!
Vicky says
I have no idea how to rig ratings and I just approved your comment, which I wouldn't do if I were trying to rig anything. I'm genuinely sorry things didn't work out. It has worked for myself and others so I wish I could offer a better explanation to you. Thank you so much for the feedback. I will certainly take what you said into account and others can read about your experience and take your feedback into consideration.
Pops from PA says
Mine came out really good! I used homemade apple pie filling that had been frozen for a year (thawed the apples of course first).
The cake rose quite a bit during baking, probably due to the 2 tsp of baking soda called for. Mine rose more than what the pictures above show.
Also since I had much more filling than what is called for I added another thin layer on top of the cake underneath the crumb mixture.
Excellent recipe overall, I will use it again.
Vicky says
Thanks for stopping by and letting me know. 🙂
Geo55 says
What size can of apple pie filling?? The one I have is 21 oz. but not sure if that's the only size they come in! Thanks.
Vicky says
Yes, 21 oz.
Monica says
Loved this recipe! I found your recipe when I searched for how to use my canned apples. It is a great texture for coffee cake and really tastes great! The only thing I changed was that I added about 2 more tablespoons of butter to my crumb mixture to make more crumb topping. Also, it was easier to work with and get into a crumbly mixture when the butter was slightly chilled. I will be making this again, maybe with different canned fruit, like another commenter suggested! Thanks!
Vicky says
Thank you so much for the kind comments! So glad you enjoyed it. Good tip about adding extra butter.
Nila says
Probably could use cherry, blueberry or most any fruity pie filling. Can't wait to try it!
Karla says
I made this. The batter was not enough to cover the bottom and top. Was too thin and very hard to spread at the bottom of the oven tray and the second half of the batter wasn't enough to cover more than the sides of the top. So frustrating.
It's so funny..I only wanted to rate with one star, but it would go to 5 star everytime and won't let me rate for less than 5 star.I have no choice Lol.
Vicky says
Karla, I am so sorry to hear that this didn't work out for you. How frustrating. We have made it many times without incident. Thanks for letting me know about your experience and the issue you were having with the star rating. I have no idea why it would do that. Hopefully people can read your comment so they know about your experience.
Cleveland Realtor says
Came out great! Nice recipe, thank you. I too had a rogue can of apple pie filling so this was perfect. I had to bake mine for a full hour as 40 minutes just wasn't quite long enough. Appreciate the recipe!!
Vicky says
So glad it worked out for you. Thanks for stopping by!
Tyra R. White says
What size OZ can of Apple Pie Filling did you use?