Mini Apple Bundt Cakes are loaded with fresh apples and fall spices. The cakes are soft and sweet – perfect for a holiday dessert or celebration. You can make mini bundt cakes or one large bundt cake with this recipe.
I love apple desserts, and these apple bundt cakes are always a favorite I enjoy making during the fall season. Every bite has fresh apples baked in.
It’s also an opportunity to use my mini bundt cake pan. I recently bought quite a few Nordic Ware bundt pans, thanks to the Food Librarian. If you aren’t a follower of her blog, she loves bundt cakes, and her beautiful cakes have made a bundt lover out of me.
You don’t have to use a mini bundt cake pan for this apple cake, but I do love the individual-sized cakes for serving at parties or holidays. The cake is soft, tender, and all about apples. It’s a great fall dessert.
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour
- Ground cinnamon
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Baking soda
- Melted unsalted butter
- Light brown sugar
- Large eggs
- Apples
- Powdered sugar
Flour: This recipe uses AP flour. I haven’t tested it with gluten-free flour. When you measure the flour, be sure to use the spoon and level method. This means you should lightly spoon the flour into the measuring cup and then level it off.
Apples: Granny Smith apples work great in this recipe. Or, if you want something less tart, you can use Pink Lady apples or Honeycrisp. You will need to peel them, core them, and then cut them into ¼” slices.
Cake Pan Tips
This recipe makes enough for a 12-cup bundt cake pan. So, you can use any bundt pan that is that size or 12 mini bundt cakes.
The mini cake pan I use is Nordic Ware Platinum Collection Cast Aluminum Garland Bundt Pan*
*Some of the links contained in this post are affiliate links. Much like referral codes, this means I earn a small commission if you purchase a product I referred (at no extra charge to you).
How to Make Mini Apple Cakes
Whisk the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a mixing bowl. In a large bowl, whisk the butter, brown sugar, and eggs.
Gradually whisk in the dry ingredients to the wet ones. Mix only until just combined. Fold in the apple pieces.
Spoon the batter into the cake pan and then smooth the top of the batter.
If you are baking one large bundt cake, it will need to bake for approximately an hour at 350°F. If you are making mini bundts, they will need less time – approximately 15 to 20 minutes at the same temperature.
Leave the cake in the pan for 15 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Dust the cooled cake with powdered sugar for serving. Or, you can serve it with some salted caramel sauce drizzled over each slice (or mini cake).
More Apple Cake Recipes
Mini Apple Bundt Cakes
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted
- 1 1/2 cups packed light-brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 6 apples peeled, cored, and sliced 1/4 inch thick
- Confectioners' sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cinnamon, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
- In a large bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, and eggs. Whisk until smooth. Gradually whisk in dry ingredients just until combined (do not overmix). Using a rubber spatula, fold in apples.
- Spoon batter into a 12-cup nonstick Bundt pan, and smooth top (or if you are using mini bundts, there should be enough batter to make 12 mini bundts). Bake until a tester inserted in cake comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes (about 15-20 minutes for mini bundts). Cool in pan on rack 15 minutes; invert onto rack to cool completely.
- Dust top with powdered sugar.
Notes
The nutrition information provided are only estimates based on an online nutritional calculator. I am not a certified nutritionist. Please consult a professional nutritionist or doctor for accurate information and any dietary restrictions and concerns you may have.
These were good & made my house smell yummy! 2 sticks of butter seemed like a lot for only 12 Bundt cakes so I did 1 stick of butter + 2 Tbsp of coconut oil. I only did 1 cup of brown sugar & it was fine! I also didn’t have 6 apples, so I used 4.
Overall the cakes were moist and yummy! I thought 6 apples would be too much, but I think it would have been perfectly fine! Still, 4 apples worked well & there were apple bits in each bite!
Glad you liked the recipe!
This recipe only made 6 mini bundt cakes, I topped them with maple goat cheese icing from here https://www.marthastewart.com/345229/goat-cheese-frosting
Hmm, this is an old post but I’m pretty sure I made 12 if I specified that in the recipe. Perhaps we have different size mini bundts.
Apples taste so good in cakes! Makes them really moist. I’m going to continue trying out diff recipes for cakes and breads with apples until I find my ideal one.
yum!! those look so delicious! such a good fall dessert
Thanks!
Hmm, I guess bundt cakes can be dense. My biggest problem has always been that the cakes don’t look as pretty and are hard to take out. The Nordic Ware ones I just bought don’t seem to have this problem. I really love mini ones! Everything is always better as mini. hehe.
The cake tasted alright for me. I accidentally left them in the oven way too long. I put them in and forgot to set my timer..so they were dry. But I think that was my fault. So I’m not exactly sure how these cakes would taste if I hadn’t screwed up the cooking time.
Thanks! I love mini things!
fantastiche!!! buonissimi!!! complimenti! ciao!
I love taking advantage of Amazon’s 4 for 3 deals! I’m not a big fan of bundt cakes since the ones I’ve had tended to be very dense and lacked flavor. But after seeing your cute mini ones, I might try a recipe. How did you like the taste of the cake?
They look really cute. I just love these apple cakes 🙂