Cinnamon Apple Cake with Sweet Sugar Glaze

The perfect dessert for Autumn, this deliciously moist Cinnamon Apple Cake is packed with fresh apples and features a crunchy cinnamon topping and drizzled with a sweet milk and sugar glaze. Made using yogurt and vegetable oil rather than milk and butter, makes the cake wonderfully fluffy. 

Cinnamon Apple Cake

Serves 8

Recipe courtesy of Jennifer Holmes

Apple cake:

210 g / 1 1/2 cups plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

150 g / 3/4 cup caster sugar

1 cup red apple, peeled and roughly chopped

2 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

120 ml / 1/2 cup vegetable oil

120 ml / 1/2 cup Greek yogurt

Cinnamon topping:

50 g / 1/4 cup caster sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tbsp butter, melted

Sugar glaze:

30 g / 1/4 cup icing sugar

1 tbsp milk

Preheat oven to 350°F, with convection bake if available. Grease and line an 8 or 9 inch round cake tin with parchment paper. In a large mixing bowl, add flour, baking powder, baking soda and sugar. Add chopped apple and stir briefly to combine. In a separate bowl, add eggs, vanilla, oil and yoghurt. Whisk briefly just to break up the egg yolks.

Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and gently mix with a wooden spoon until combined, being careful not to over mix. Spoon the batter into prepared tin.

To make cinnamon topping, combine cinnamon, sugar and butter. Mix together until lumpy and wet, thens sprinkle over the cake batter.

Bake cake for approximately 30-35 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Transfer cake to a wire rack to cool completely.

To make the glaze, mix together the icing sugar and 1 tablespoon of milk, and stir until smooth. Drizzle glaze all over the cake and serve with a dollop of whipped cream or spoonful of iced cream.