This is a simple cake that’ll startle you with its rich crunchiness. It tantalizes taste buds with its fresh apple and the kiss of cinnamon to add to its beautiful flavours.
I baked this cake a couple of hours back and everyone has been delightfully surprised with the way it has turned out.
Apple Crumble Cake:


Servings: 12 to 14
Difficulty Level: Medium
Ingredients:
The Crumb Topping:
- Butter – 5 tbsp
- Sugar – 1/2 cup
- All-purpose flour – 1/2 cup
- Salt – 1/4 Tsp
- Walnuts coarsely chopped – 1/2 cup
For the cake:
- All-purpose flour – 2 cups
- Baking powder – 2 Tsp
- Baking Soda – 1/2 tsp
- Salt – 1/4 Tsp
- Ground Cinnamon – 1/2 tsp (I ground it at home)
- Butter – 8 tbsp
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Eggs (whole) – 2
- Vanilla essence 2 tsp
- Yoghurt – 1/2 cup (I used the home set curd)
- Apple – 2 peeled, cored and diced
Method:
For the Crumb Topping:
- Mix together butter, sugar, flour and salt with a fork till you get a crumbly mixture.
- Mix in chopped walnuts and refrigerate (do not put in freezer) till required.
For the Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C (about 355 degrees F).
- Grease and line the bottom and sides of an 8″ round or square tin.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon powder. Keep this mixture aside.
- Beat butter and sugar on medium speed until light, about 4 minutes.
- Mix in eggs one by one, beating for about 1 minute after each addition followed by vanilla essence.
- Add the flour mixture and yoghurt alternately, beginning and ending with flour.
- Beat well till you get a smooth batter.
- The batter will be thick. Mix in the diced apple.
- Transfer the batter into the prepared cake tin and even out the top using a spatula.
- Sprinkle over the crumb topping evenly.
- Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or till crumbs are golden and the bamboo skewer inserted comes out clean.
Serving Suggestion:
Serve plain or with some whipped cream or custard.
This recipe has been adapted from the book ‘Baking – from my home to yours’ – by Dorie Greenspan
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I am so baking this one of these days! Daughter wants it with custard 🙂
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She’ll love it 🙂
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drooooolingg… I thought of mocking the chocolate cake last weekend but couldn’t 😦 but I have purchased the cocoa powder you see I am getting there and first step is done 🙂
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Go for it Ani…you’ll love it and so will Adi 😀
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Looks yummy!
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Thank you Shilpa 😀
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I can feel the aroma of the apple and vanilla essence here! They look very tummy appealing 🙂
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Thank you Anu…it truly smells divine 😀
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Geeeeeez ! that looks yummy… !!!!! 😛 😛 😛
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Thank you Hitchy
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Errr…come to Mumbai and I will give you the ingredients…we will bake it together…I mean, you bake, RM eat..theek hai :):)
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Theek hai 😉 🙂
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I can’t stop staring at that cake longingly wishing that it would pop out from the computer onto my table 🙂 … looks soooooooo… yummy 😀
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And you add another picture to tempt me more 🙂 I want it …
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Make it lifesong it tastes much better than what it looks 😀
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Yummy 🙂
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it is 😀
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Ooh…I wonder if this is the same as an apple crumble. I love apple and berry crumbles with custard…this looks delicious!
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Yes it is PB…you can actually add blue berries to the crumble on this cake too 😀
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you know I am making a list of all this stuff.. Will eat all this .. 🙂 yummmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Go for it Bikram it makes a very delightful dessert 😀
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no no The list is to come to india and have it when you make them all again MUUU HA HA HA HA HA 🙂
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O I see, You are welcome for that..but in the meantime you can give the Apple Crumble a shot in UK too 😀 😀
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Yumm, is there an eggless version? 🙂
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I have no clue Bhagyashree 😦 As far this cake I just stuck to the recipe, I’ll surely let you know if I find an eggless version.
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oh a lot of cooking n baking these days.. I also wanna resume with my cooking something special on weekends.. Baking is also one thing which I am kinda postponing.. Lets see when I shall start it!! will save all these recipies for future use..
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The fact is I always keep busy with cooking experiments, it’s just that now that I have actually started taking pictures of them to post them on the blog.
I know things can get difficult with work….try it at peace 😀
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OMG!! I have to try this…you won’t believe this is my favorite of allll :p Love having it with my evening cup of chai…
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It goes very well with tea 😀
Give it a try Dew and do let me know how it turned out 😀 😀
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yummy…..can I come to eat….please……
I am free thsi weekend:)
I am happy that cooking works as a stress buster for you:)
Life is beautiful..!!!
take care…
Keep smiling…and baking….:)
Hugs to Pari:)
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You are most welcome Gayu 😀
Hugs from Pari and me 😀
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looks so yummy… my list of recipes to try are growing and growing (courtesy YOU).. 😛 I am going to try this soon.. looks very very inviting… 🙂
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aww….thank you GB for taking note of the recipes I post 😀
Do give it a shot…I’d love to hear how it turned out 🙂
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Suddenly I am bit by the baking bug and all I want to do is baking these days… I baked orange cake yest.. and it came out really well.. You might know the recipe.. but just posting –
http://cookingfrommyheart.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/orange-cake
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Wow! I baked an orange cake last week and it turned out amazing 😀
Thank you for the link GB 😀
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I so much want to bake that cake, since the time i have read. Can you suggest me any alternative for eggs, if possible? And if i want to cook this in microwave or cooker?
And what song was on your mind while cooking this :P. your posts cant be completed without that :). and how on earth you remember all the songs you do.
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Sorry Nikita, I have no clue about this cake’s eggless version. It being quite heavy on the ingredients needs oven baking. Though I’ll surely let you know of any eggless version if I come across one 😀
I was actually singing this song while baking this cake:
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You are awarded and tagged here
http://heyithinkthisway.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/take-a-break-and-pick-a-tag/
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Thank you Bhavia….heading over right away!
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Though I dont cook/like to cook much, I love baking and I had made this cake sometime back with amazing results! Not sure if it was the same recipe but most of it does look very similar 🙂
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Must have been similar for this is a very popular cake 😀
I totally agree with amazing results…totally worth the effort 😀 😀
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Gotta try this one soon. I seem to bookmark every recipe you post 🙂
Dal Nawaabi is lying in my Draft. Will post soon.
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You are going to love this one 😀
Aww…you are a sweetie…hugs
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