Easy Caramel Apple Spice Cake Recipe – good spice cake bursting with caramel and apple flavor!

Top with walnuts for extra crunch – this cake is suited to dessert, and good with coffee for a special breakfast!

At Avdaye, we add lots of tips in all of our recipes – because we are a home cook without any formal training, and we find we are more confident making dishes when we understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. Our goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

Good Tender Caramel Apple Spice Bundt Cake

Loaded with good spice cake flavor – this recipe is great during the holidays – but the addition of fresh apples and caramel makes it a solid treat no matter what time of year it is!

If you love caramel apples, and the favor of cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and cloves – you can love this easy cake modified from boxed spice cake mix.

We hope you love this easy Caramel Apple Spice Cake Recipe as much as we do!

What is Spice Apple Cake?

Spice cake uses a blend of spices – usually cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ginger and nutmeg – for it's moniker.

For this recipe, we will be using a store bought spice cake box to save time.

We will be modifying the recipe to incorporate even more flavor – so it's even easier for even beginner cooks to make this cake without having to worry about carefully measuring and grabbing the right ingredients.

Were linking our favorite spice cake boxes below:

Duncan Hines Spice Cake
Betty Crocker Spice Cake
Nordic Wear Cinnamon Spice Bundt Cake Mix

How To Get Bundt Cake Out of The Pan

Getting a bundt cake to come perfectly out of the pan can be a challenge – so we're sharing tips for how to get an easy release oon your bundt cake!

Use Flour Spray

Opt for a cake spray that includes flour for best results.

If your cake spray doesn't – or you grease with shortening – sprinkle a little flour over greased pan before adding batter to help cake release.

Use Silicone Cake Pan

Using a silicone cake pan helps you release your cake since you can manipulate the mold.

The nonstick properties of a silicone pan help cakes slide out easier.

Cool for 10 Minutes

Before flipping cake out of pan, let it cool for 10 minutes.

Flipping a cake hot out of the oven will result in a cake that crumbles apart and sticks to the pan – let cake set and cool for 10 minutes before flipping.

Give it a Bang

If cake won't release after cooling, give it a big bang on a counter to help it release, then flip.

Flip and Let Sit

If all else fails, flip cake pan and let sit over cooling rack – gravity will do it's job, the cake will release over time.

Spice Cake Glaze

This apple spice cake is full of flavor – and the caramel sauce is rich and good and perfectly compliments the spice cake – but it's great over cinnamon rollspancakes, and bread puddingtoo!

Caramel Apple Glaze

1/2 cup unsalted butter (1 stick)
2 tsp. heavy whipping cream or milk
1/2 cup light brown sugar

Easy Caramel Apple Glaze Instructions

In a small saucepan, heat the butter, milk and brown sugar over medium heat.

While constantly stirring, bring the mixture to a boil and then remove the pan from the stove.

Mix the glaze a minute longer until it starts to thicken up a little bit and then pour it all over the top of the cake.

Other Easy Desserts You'll Love

We love insanely easy cakes and dessert bars – good easy sweet treats the whole family craves, that don't take a ton of time slaving away in the kitchen.

To see some of our favorite easy desserts, click the recipes below – or you can visit our complete dessert archives here!

You can find the rest of our dessert archives here!

Recipe FAQs

How can we get our bundt cake to release?

use a cooking spray with flour and let cake cool for 10 minutes before flipping for best release from a bundt cake pan.

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Ingredients

15.25 oz spiced cake mix, one box
20 oz apple pie filling, one can
2 eggs
⅔ cup walnuts, chopped
½ cup unsalted butter, 1 stick
2 tsp heavy whipping cream or milk
½ cup light brown sugar

Method

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Prepare a bundt pan with a non-stick spray, if itdoesn't include flour then give the pan a light dusting of flour.
In a large bowl, combine the spice cake mix, apple pie filling and eggs.
Using a stand or hand mixer, beat everything until the lumps are broken up and the apple slices are broken down a little bit.
Fold in the walnuts.
Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 50 minutes.
Check with a toothpick for doneness.
Let the cake cool for 10 minutes and then invert onto a cooling rack until the cake is done cooling.
Prepare the glaze: In a small saucepan, heat the butter, milk and brown sugar over medium heat.
While constantly stirring, bring the mixture to a boil and then remove the pan from the stove.
Mix the glaze a minute longer until it starts to thicken up a little bit and then pour it all over the top of the cake.
If you would like to decorate the top with a little more walnuts do it quickly as the caramel will set quickly.
Store covered at room temperature.