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11 Ways to Bake an Apple Cake

These moist, fruit-filled cakes are basically autumn on a plate.
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Oat Shortcakes with Sautéed Apples, Cinnamon, and Whipped CreamTom Schierlitz, food styling by Brian Preston-Campbell
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    3/11

    Apple Jack Stack Cake

    The "cakes" in this traditional Tennessee-mountain dessert are firm, like cookies. After being slathered with apple butter and layered with boozy poached apples, the cake rests overnight—allowing the layers to soften until tender and sliceable.

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  • Photo by Alan Benson
    4/11

    Flourless Apple, Almond, and Ginger Cake

    To keep the cake tender and fluffy, be gentle when folding the nut and apple mixtures into the whipped eggs.

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  • © 2010 by Joshua Cogan
    7/11

    Tennessee Mountain Stack Cake

    In this version of a stack cake, a creamy, spiced apple butter is spread between the cinnamon-buttermilk cake layers before the cake is wrapped and left to chill overnight—or longer.

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  • Romulo Yanes
    8/11

    Dried-Apple Stack Cakes

    For these individual desserts, miniature molasses muffins are baked and then layered with a warming spiced apple compote.

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  • Stephen Sullivan; food and prop styling: Roscoe Betsill
    9/11

    Spiced Apple Cake with Eggnog Sauce

    This simple, one-bowl cake is studded with rum-soaked raisins and crunchy pecans. To dress up each serving, store-bought eggnog—which has the consistency of crème anglaise—is drizzled alongside.

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  • Richard Learoyd
    10/11

    Apple and Olive Oil Cake with Maple Icing

    Although it might not win any beauty contests, this cake from Yotam Ottolenghi—made with olive oil and studded with diced apples and raisins—is supremely moist and bursting with flavor. A thick slather of maple syrup–sweetened cream cheese frosting tops it off.

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