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Irish Apple Cake Recipe

This delightful apple streusel cake pairs tender spiced apples with a crumbly oat topping and creamy homemade custard sauce. Perfect for cozy gatherings or a comforting dessert!
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Prep Time 35 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 10
Calories 372 kcal

Equipment

  • 9-inch springform pan
  • Mixing bowls
  • Hand or stand mixer
  • Whisk
  • Silicone spatula or spoon
  • Sieve
  • Measuring cups and spoons
  • Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3 Tbsp whole milk or cream
  • 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • about 3 Granny Smith apples peeled and thinly sliced. Mine weighed a little over a pound after slicing.
  • confectioner’s sugar for dusting
  • streusel topping
  • 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup old fashioned rolled oats
  • 6 Tbsp unsalted cold butter cut in small pieces
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • custard sauce
  • 6 large egg yolks
  • 6 Tbsp granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups whole milk ~ you can also use half and half or cream
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C) and grease a 9-inch springform pan.
  • Prepare the custard sauce: Simmer milk, whisk egg yolks with sugar, gradually combine, and cook until thickened. Strain, add vanilla, and chill.
    A saucepan gently simmering milk on the stove, while a whisk mixes egg yolks and sugar in a bowl. A strainer and a bottle of vanilla are on the side, ready for the finishing touch.
  • Make streusel topping: Mix butter, flour, sugar, and oats until crumbly, then refrigerate.
    A mixing bowl with butter, flour, sugar, and oats being combined into a crumbly texture, with cold butter cubes visible in the mix. A hand is reaching for the refrigerator to chill it.
  • Cream butter and sugar, then beat in eggs one at a time.
    A stand mixer creaming room-temperature butter and sugar into a light, fluffy mixture, with an egg being cracked into the bowl.
  • Whisk together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt; fold into the batter with milk or cream.
    A small mixing bowl containing flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt being whisked together, with a measuring spoon and a cinnamon jar nearby
  • Spread batter in the prepared pan, layer with sliced apples, and sprinkle with streusel.
    Thinly sliced Granny Smith apples being layered artfully over the batter, their vibrant green edges peeking out.
  • Bake for 50–60 minutes, until golden and set.
    The springform pan inside the oven, with the cake starting to rise and the streusel turning golden.
  • Cool slightly, dust with confectioner’s sugar, and serve with chilled custard sauce.
    The finished cake cooling slightly on a wire rack, with confectioner’s sugar being dusted on top. A serving of the cake is plated with a drizzle of chilled custard sauce.