Apple Snack Cake (Right From The Orchard)
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This apple snack cake recipe fresh from the orchard includes an unbeatable flavor combination of graham cracker crumbs, fresh apples, nuts, butter, and sugar to make a snack cake unlike any other!
I often find with recipes, as with memories, it is the simple things which satisfy us the most. This apple snack cake recipe is the perfect example of that. This classic snack cake is not too sweet and the simple ingredients make it a breeze to throw together. Add in the full flavor of locally grown apples (preferably from a family orchard trip!) and you can’t go wrong.
This apple coffee cake is perfect for breakfast, with a cup of coffee while visiting friends, or any other time of day. I also think of it as the ideal after-school snack.
The beauty of this recipe, which gives it a remarkably satisfying texture, is that instead of flour you use graham cracker crumbs. Combine that flavor with sugar, melted butter, chopped apples, and nuts and you have a snack cake unlike any other. When you do try it please, share a photo with me on Instagram (@southernplate) or you can email it to me, too!
Recipe Ingredients
- Graham crackers
- Butter
- Eggs
- Sugar
- Apples
- Pecans or walnuts (optional)
The recipe also calls for pecans or walnuts, which I highly recommend. However, I do leave them out sometimes as certain people in my house have voiced their objection to having “those nut things” in their snack cake.
How to Make an Easy Apple Snack Cake
First, melt and slightly cool the butter, before pouring it into a medium bowl.
Add the sugar and then the eggs.
Add in graham cracker crumbs then stir the ingredients together.
Stir in chopped apples and nuts, if using.
Like this.
Behold! Our beautiful apple snack cake batter.
Pour this into a greased 8×8 baking dish.
I usually use cooking spray but if you want to be fancy you can use parchment paper.
Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown all over top.
Remove from oven and sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar.
Allow it to cool in the pan before cutting it into bars.
Oh my goodness! This apple snacking cake is just ridiculously delicious and makes the prettiest apple studded bars.
I’m telling you, if you can’t imagine what a snack cake is like when you replace the flour with graham crumbs, you need to understand that it is half a step away from Heaven.
Enjoy!
Storage
Store leftovers, covered, at room temperature or in the fridge for up to 4 days. You can also freeze cake slices for up to 3 months. Thaw at room temperature before serving.
Recipe Notes
- If you like, you can substitute the nuts for chopped dates.
- Want to add some spices for that quintessential fall flavor? Toss your diced apples in 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/8 teaspoon of ginger or nutmeg, and 1/8 teaspoon of cloves or allspice. Use the spice combination that works for you. You can also just use 1 teaspoon of apple pie spice or pumpkin pie spice.
- Great baking apples include Gala, Pink Lady, McIntosh, Honeycrisp, Braeburn, and Granny Smith apples.
- While this apple cake is great served on its own, you can also serve it with whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce.
- Another option is to top the apple cake with a simple maple glaze. Just combine 1/4 cup of confectioner’s sugar with 1 tablespoon of maple syrup and drizzle this over the cake.
- For more fall flavor, substitute the white sugar for brown sugar or use a combination of both.
You might also enjoy these appetizing apple recipes:
Apple Crumble Cake (Good & Easy)
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter melted and slightly cooled
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 2 to 3 apples (any variety) peeled and diced
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans or walnuts optional
Instructions
- Blend the sugar, butter, and eggs in a medium bowl with a spoon.1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 3 eggs
- Stir in the graham cracker crumbs, apples, and walnuts until blended.2 cup graham cracker crumbs, 2 to 3 apples (any variety), 3/4 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- Spread batter into a greased 8×8 pan.
- Bake at 350 for 40 to 45 minutes or until firm to the touch.
- Sprinkle liberally with confectioner’s sugar.
- Cool and then cut into squares.
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This is funny – When my husband got home from work this afternoon, he saw the apple cake on the counter. When I told him it was Apple Orchard Snack Cake, he was like, “Ooh, that sounds good.” Then I added, “From Southern Plate.” He gasped, smiled, and said under his breath “Yes!“
See? Your recipes are infamous at our house! 🙂
My daughter and I made this snack cake this morning. I haven’t let her have a piece yet, because she isn’t done with lunch, but I’ve already eaten two pieces! It’s delicious! And of course, after Zaylee finishes eating her lunch, she will have a piece of cake and love it as much as I do. 🙂
Yeah, absolutely every recipe of yours I’ve tried has turned out wonderful. You are so great!
Wow! What a wonderful quick recipe! I have apples that need to be eaten soon, and this is perfect for them. Thank you! I am marking your blog as a fav.
Laura! WOW THANK YOU!!! That was so nice of you! I will post it today. I also have two older ones I still haven’t posted!! I am such a bad blogger sometimes.
I missed where you had featured the pizza rolls, thank you for that! I’ll be sure to put it in the next newsletter!
BillGent: How did the doc go yesterday? thanks for the kudos, Brady is such a great kid.
Belle!! THANK YOU!!!! I have been back to your blog several times already!!! Your daughter is just lovely. Chemistry in college was a challenge for me as well. Tell her one thing for me if you will :In lab, when you are bending glass tubing with the burners and they tell you not to touch the tubing you have already bent because it is extremely hot – believe them.
~grins~
Y’all, I swear I am not losing my mind. I responded to a bunch of comments on this thread right before I left to go to the post office while ago and now ……where did my response go?
Alright so maybe I am losing my mind!
Stephanie: our apple season doesn’t start for a few weeks either, but we do have some coming in now and I wanted to get these out there! I am ITCHING for fall after all of this summer heat!!! 😀
You’d have more sense than to drop your camera like I did, I’m sure!!!
Del Sisters: you two have a great blog! Thank you so much for reading Southern Plate!
April: it does do a pretty good job, doesn’t it? I just love graham crackers, in pretty much anything, don’t you?
Scraphag: You know, I’m not entirely sure if it is in there or not! I have already got a list of several family recipes for book #2! I hope to do another one in a year or so that includes all of the family stories behind the recipes and such.
Cee: Apple cider………omg. Nectar of the gods, I tell ya!
Tina!!! Hey girl! I feel like we haven’t talked in weeks instead of days! LOL I’ve been so busy with apple week!!! I wish you lived close, I swear I’d put twenty pounds on you the first month just by sending food over!
~~~Katy calls, I’ll respond more in just a few!~~~
I FOUND YOU! Your blog is just fabulous. I’m putting it on my reader so that I’ll be sure to check in everyday.
That picture of your son with the thumbs up sign is awesome! Haha!
That cake looks great. Very yummy!