Today we are sharing an AMAZING Apple Spice Doctored Cake Mix recipe! It’s the season for delicious spiced cakes and I have to say, this one’s a keeper!
We are slowly working our way through our Recipes Section so that we can have a scratch version and doctored cake mix version of our favorite recipes.
Of course, Apple Spice Cake is right up there at the top of the list! I love myself a good spice cake (especially in the fall….ahhhhh…).
Apple Spice Cake is a classic fall recipe and we are so excited to have a doctored mix option to go along with our scratch version for Caramel Apple Spice Cake. We adore both of these recipes, but sometimes you just need a fast, flavorful option for fall gatherings!
After making this moist and flavorful Apple Spice Cake doctored cake mix version this week, I find it to be every bit as delicious and addictive as the scratch version!
My family approves 100% and I could not believe how fast this cake disappeared! (I may have had something to do with this too, ha!)
Apple Spice Cake (Doctored Cake Mix)
Ingredients
- 1 box yellow cake mix (15.25g) plus 6 Tablespoons (45g) flour (we used Duncan Hines Classic Yellow cake mix)
- 1/2 cup (108g) light brown sugar (packed into cup)
- 2 teaspoons (5g) cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon (2g) nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon (1g) allspice
- 1/2 cup (l08g) vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons (8g) vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cup (302g) buttermilk
- 2 cups (204g) peeled and grated apple (2 large apples) I used 1 Golden Delicious and 1 Granny Smith apple - grate on the large holes of grater
Directions
- This recipe makes 6 cups of batter
- Works well for cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Grease and flour two 8 inch round cake pans
- In the mixing bowl, add the cake mix, brown sugar, spices, oil, eggs, vanilla and buttermilk. With the mixer on low speed, increasing to medium speed, mix for 1 minute. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl. Beat on medium speed for 1 more minute ( longer if using a hand mixer). Fold in the grated apples and pour into the prepared cake pans. Bake 35 to 40 minutes. You may need to cover pans with aluminum foil during the last five minutes of baking to prevent over browning the tops of the cakes.
We’ve also added an Apple Spice Cream Cheese Recipe to our Recipe Section that is just heavenly with this cake! There’s nothing like silky smooth cream cheese frosting with spice cakes and cupcakes.
Stir a little spiced goodness into the cream cheese frosting and you have a home run every time. We have a similar version that we also love to whip up for our fall favorites: Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting! Yummmm.
Thanks for stopping by, we think you’re going to come back to this fall favorite again and again. Big thank you to BeBe for creating this Apple Spice Cake Recipe for us as well as the Apple Spice Cream Cheese Frosting!!
This one is a keeper for sure. Enjoy!!
Interested in trying out our scratch Caramel Apple Spice Cake? You will love this moist and delicious apple spiced goodness!
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Melissa
For the vegetable oil is that 2 cups or 108 g? 2cups or 1/2 cup? Thanks for the recipe and reply!
Diane
This recipe really looks astonishing and really helpful for us for making such brilliant Apple Spice Cake and yes I will definitely love to try this recipe.
Hi Diane, Thank you so much for letting us know! For some reason when we put the recipe into our template, the fractions were autocorrected when the post was published. The oil is 1/2 cup (not 2 cups), the brown sugar is 1/2 cup (not 2 cups), allspice is 1/4 teaspoon (not 4 teaspoons). The gram weight was correct but many do not weigh their ingredients so thank you for catching this.
Hi Anuj, If you printed the recipe, please reprint because some amounts were incorrect!
I didn’t add the 6 Tablespoons flour. I never saw that until I saw the second email. 😥 My cakes didn’t rise. No biggie it’ll still taste good. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Hi Melissa! Can you please tell me if this cake recepie is stable enough for stacking and to cover with fondant? Thank you!
Hi Claudia, This recipe would be stackable because the supports (bubble tea straws or dowels) would support the tiered cakes that are on their own cake board. We have not tried using fondant on this cake but I think it might be a bit too soft..
Truely this is yummy. My family members loved it very much, So I make it again and again.
Wow, what a wonderful cake, all my kids always prefer this cake. they like it very much. So at each party we we prefer only this cake.