Apple Mortgage Cake Recipe: Taste the Sweet Victory of Homeownership

Heroes don't always wear capes. Some would simply bake a hundred apple cakes, sell them for $40 each to pay their mortgage and they hold on to their house, as evident in our Apple Mortgage cake recipe, which gained popularity due to the movie with the same name. The American dream is still alive and kicking.

While it’s true that the original story provides a taste to our Apple Mortgage cake recipe, we must admit that the spices, raisins, and walnuts, combined with a savory caramel glaze might play a role too. Although our hero sold those for $40 a piece, it actually costs much less than that to make.

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• Ingredients
• Instructions
• Substitutions
• Variations
• Equipment
• Storage
• Pro Tips
• Apple Mortgage Cake Recipe
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Ingredients

1. The cake

• All-purpose flour — 3 cups
• Cinnamon — 1 tsp.
• Nutmeg — ½ tsp.
• Sugar — 2 cups
• Walnuts — 1 cup, chopped
• Eggs — 3 pcs.
• Salt — ½ tsp.
• Apples — 3 cups, peeled and diced
• Raisins — 1 cup
• Vanilla extract — 1 tsp.
• Cooking oil — 1 cup
• Baking soda — 1 tsp.

2. The glaze

• Milk — ¼ cup
• Vanilla extract — 1 tsp.
• Brown sugar — ½ cup
• Butter — ½ cup

Instructions

1. Set your oven to 350 degrees.

2. Combine the flour, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, and cinnamon in a mixing bowl. Stir well.

3. Using another mixing bowl, combine the sugar, oil, vanilla extract, and eggs. Stir until smooth.

4. Combine the dry and the wet mixtures in a single bowl.

5. Make sure to stir until smooth.

6. Add the apples, raisins, and chopped walnuts.

7. Transfer the batter to a lightly greased baking pan.

8. Bake for 45 minutes.

9. In the meantime, melt the butter in a pan.

10. Add the milk and brown sugar.

11. Bring them to a boil and stir for two minutes.

12. Remove from the heat. Add the vanilla extract.

13. Once your cake is baked, give it ten minutes to cool down. Then, pour the caramel glaze mixture over the cake.

Substitutions

• Walnuts — Chopped walnuts could easily be replaced with any other kind of nuts that suit your taste better. Almonds and hazelnuts are obviously good candidates, and you can give cashews a try as well.

• Raisins — Walnuts and raisins make an iconic pair in this Apple Mortgage cake recipe, and we’d recommend you stick with those. If that’s not an option, you can replace raisins with dried cranberries or dried cherries. Lastly, dried currants would be fine as well.

• Cinnamon and nutmeg — It’s true that this Apple Mortgage cake tastes just like the ones your grandma used to make for you, and the combination of cinnamon and nutmeg plays a huge part in this. Those two could be replaced with Allspice, which actually includes both cinnamon and nutmeg.

Variations

• Make it vegan — Our Apple Mortgage cake recipe could easily be made vegan with just a few changes. When it comes to eggs, a quarter cup of yogurt would do the job of a single egg as a binder. The same goes for mashed bananas as well. Milk can be replaced by any non-dairy milk. You can use coconut oil instead of butter in the recipe.

• Make it R-rated — If you’re after something even more exciting, you might want to add some rum into the mix. Simply add three tablespoons of rum, preferably dark rum, into your wet batter and simply proceed.

Equipment

• Measuring cups and spoons

• 2 mixing bowls

• Whisk

• Saucepan

• 9x13 baking pan

• Oven

Storage

• Instead, transfer the leftover cake into an airtight container.

• Once stored in your fridge, the leftover Apple Mortgage cake will last for three days.

• Once frozen, the leftovers will last for two months.

Pro Tips

• The ingredients — When it comes to the ingredients, we would recommend you stick with ingredients at room temperature. They will bond much easier, resulting in a smoother batter with a better texture.

• The apples — Admittedly, you would be fine using any apple you have, when it comes to our Apple Mortgage cake recipe. Still, you might be better off using tart ones. The texture would be much better.