Description
This Apple Cider Donut Cake has all the flavor of your favorite seasonal treat, but made as a super easy snack cake. It’s perfect if you love apple cider donuts but want a simpler baking process.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1–½ cups fresh apple cider
- 4 tablespoons (66 grams) cold unsalted butter, diced
- 2 large eggs
- ⅓ cup (70 grams) granulated sugar
- ½ cup (110 grams) lightly packed brown sugar
- ⅓ cup (70 grams) light olive oil (or other neutral oil)
- ¼ cup (66 grams) sour cream (or greek yogurt)
- 1–½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1–½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- Pinch allspice
- ¼ teaspoon coarse kosher salt (if using fine sea salt use half by volume)
- 1–¾ cups (210 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon butter, at cool room temperature (for topping)
- ¼ cup (50 grams) granulated sugar (for topping)
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (for topping)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter (or spray with oil) a 9” square baking dish and line it with a piece of parchment paper long enough to hang over the sides to create a sling.
- In a large saute pan, boil the apple cider until reduced by half, about 5 minutes. Measure to ensure it is ¾ cup. Add the butter to the hot cider, and whisk to combine. This reduced apple cider is key for the apple cider donut cake flavor.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, granulated sugar, brown sugar, oil, sour cream, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice and salt.
- Slowly whisk the boiled cider into the wet mixture.
- Stir in the flour to combine. This forms your apple cider donut cake batter.
- Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish.
- Bake in the pre-heated oven until the cake is puffed, golden and baked through the middle, about 22-25 minutes.
- Place the apple cider cake on a cooling rack for 5 minutes.
- Place the butter on top of the cake, and brush it around as it melts.
- In a small bowl, mix together ¼ cup of granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture liberally over the buttered surface of the apple cider donut cake.
- Remove the cake from the pan, and let it cool on the rack.
- Allow the apple cider donut cake to cool slightly before cutting it into squares.
Notes
- Ensure the apple cider is reduced by half for concentrated flavor.
- Using a parchment paper sling makes removing the cake easy.
- Adjust salt if using fine sea salt.
- Prep Time: 00:12
- Cook Time: 00:22
- Category: Sweets
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 300
- Sugar: 30g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 40g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 40mg