Apple sheet cake with fresh apples, fall spices using my favorite McCormick® spices makes for a super easy baking project! A perfect tea time treat for the holidays!
I have partnered with McCormick and all opinions are 100% my own. I have always loved using McCormick spices so it was great to create a recipe using my favorite spice brand!
It’s all about desserts, isn’t it? Come December and all I want to eat is cookies, pies, ice creams basically everything sweet. Do you share similar feelings?! Even though this year I haven’t shared as much desserts as last year, everytime I step foot out of the house, I always always end up buying some kind of sweet!
It’s becoming more of a ritual these days, a very risky sweet ritual. When it comes to making desserts at home ,there are some desserts that are closer to my heart just because they remind me of holidays with my family.
My grandmother was an amazing cook and I have this memory of her always cooking something yummy for us. She would most of the time pack my school lunch and everyday there would be a treat after my meal hidden in one of the small boxes in my lunchbox and a fresh apple, always!
Lately I have been thinking a lot about her and missing the time I spent with her so I decided to make something delicious with apples. I love love fruits in my desserts so when I saw this amazing apple sheet cake doing the rounds on instagram, I knew I had to give it a try! It was so simple to make and using my favorite McCormick spices, gave that extra something to this cake.
I have always believed in using quality ingredients and when it comes to buying good quality spices, I always always go for McCormick. In this recipe I used McCormick Ground Cinnamon and I must say it’s good stuff. Unlike some other brands where even if you add a good amount, you don’t taste or smell the spice, it’s not like that at all in here!
McCormick Ground Cinnamon is really good quality strong flavored and a little goes a long way.
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- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup dark brown sugar, lightly packed
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 6 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp grated orange zest
- 1¼ cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 1.5 tsp McCormick Ground Cinnamon
- ¾ tsp McCormick Ginger Powder
- ¾ pounds apples ( I used red delicious apples), peeled, cored and chopped in small pieces
- Pre heat oven to 350F.
- Grease a inch baking sheet.
- In the bowl of your electric mixer, add granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, vanilla and orange zest. Beat using paddle attachment for good 2-3 minutes until smooth.
- Now sift all purpose flour into this mixture. Add baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger. Mix until just combines. DO NOT OVER MIX.
- Now gently add chopped apples and fold them in the batter using a spatula.
- Spread this batter into the prepared baking sheet and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out dry and clean.
- Let it cool once done. Cut in slices and serve with ice cream . It can also be stored in an airtight container.
Recipe for this Apple Sheet Cake has been adapted from Ina Garten's Make it Ahead.
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of McCormick®.
This apple sheet cake sounds delicious Ami. Normally I don’t eat apples because I don’t like it. But if it is added to the recipe then I can have it. Today I have learned new recipe which has an apple in it.
Thanks for great share… 🙂
I eat way more than my fair share of desserts this time of year! This cake sounds really delicious! 🙂
I make a similar apple sheet cake that is a favorite around here too. I usually have to make a double batch just to make sure I get a slice (or two) And hey, I call it having at least one serving of fruit with my cake LOL
Hi, in this in place of orange zest what can we add?
Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe. It’s now my favourite apple-sheet-cakee ! I’ve tried a few of your recipes and they’ve all turned out fantastic!