This easy apple spice cake is everything we love about autumn baking — soft, moist, and beautifully fragrant with sweet seasonal apples and warm cinnamon. It’s a simple, reliable recipe made with everyday ingredients, delivering that classic homemade comfort in every slice. As it bakes, it fills the kitchen with a cosy warmth that makes even an ordinary afternoon feel a little special. Perfect for afternoon tea, a relaxed weekend treat, or a fuss‑free dessert, this is the kind of timeless cake you’ll come back to again and again.

Apple spice cake

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Cook Time 45 minutes mins

Course Cake

Servings 8 slices

Ingredients

  

• 450 g bramley apples, peeled, cored and chopped
• 225 g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp ground ginger
• pinch ground cloves
• 175 g soft margarine
• 75 g caster sugar
• 2 tbsp golden syrup
• 3 eggs
• 100 g sultanas
• icing sugar, to dust

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 180c. Grease a deep, 20cm/8in round cake tin.
• Cook the apples in 4 tbsp water for 5mins until soft, leave to cool.
• Sift flour and spices into a bowl. Add margarine, sugar, syrup and eggs. Beat with an electric whisk until blended. Stir in the cooked apples and sultanas.
• Spoon the mixture into the cake tin and level. Bake for 40mins, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
• Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 5mins. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with icing sugar just before serving.