Apple Streusel Bundt Cake

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Diana Rattray
Diana Rattray
Diana Rattray
Southern-cuisine expert and cookbook author Diana Rattray has created more than 5,000 recipes and articles in her 20 years as a food writer.
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Updated on 07/29/21
Apple Streusel Bundt Cake

The Spruce / Cara Cormack
Prep: 20 mins
Cook: 55 mins
Total: 75 mins
Servings: 12 to 16 servings
Nutrition Facts (per serving)
401 Calories
23g Fat
45g Carbs
5g Protein
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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 12 to 16
Amount per serving
Calories 401
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 23g 30%
Saturated Fat 11g 54%
Cholesterol 99mg 33%
Sodium 324mg 14%
Total Carbohydrate 45g 16%
Dietary Fiber 2g 7%
Protein 5g
Calcium 122mg 9%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

This delicious apple cake is filled with a mixture of chopped apples and a spiced pecan and brown sugar streusel. It makes a fabulous coffee cake or dessert. 

Serve it as is or add a simple vanilla glaze. See the quick vanilla glaze instructions below the recipe.

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Ingredients

  • For the Streusel:
  • 1 1/4 cups light brown sugar (packed)
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour (3 1/2 ounces)
  • 1/2 cup butter (cold, cut into small pieces)
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
  • For the Cake:
  • 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (14 1/2 ounces)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 cup butter (room temperature)
  • 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 cups vanilla yogurt (16 ounces)
  • 3 medium apples, Golden Delicious or Granny Smith (peeled, cored, and diced)

Steps to Make It

  1. Gather the ingredients.

    Apple Streusel Bundt Cake ingredients

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  2. Preheat the oven to 350 F/180 C/Gas 4 and generously grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan or nonstick Bundt cake pan.

    floured and buttered bundt pan

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  3. Make the streusel by combining 1 1/4 cups brown sugar, 3/4 cup flour, the cold butter pieces, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Mix with a fork until crumbly, and butter is blended in well.

    sugar, flour, butter and cinnamon in a bowl

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  4. Stir in chopped pecans. Set aside.

    chopped pecans added to the flour mixture

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  5. Combine 3 1/4 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda in a separate bowl.

    flour, baking powder, baking soda in a separate bowl

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  6. Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla extract and vanilla yogurt.

    Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl, hand mixer

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  7. Beat in the dry ingredients with the mixer on low speed, just until blended.

    wet and dry ingredients in a bowl

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  8. Spoon about 3 cups of the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup of the streusel mixture and the apples, then 1/2 cup of the streusel mixture.

    apple streusel ingredients in the bundt pan

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  9. Spoon remaining batter over streusel apple layer. Then top with remaining streusel. Press streusel down into batter lightly.

    Apple Streusel Bundt Cake ingredients in the bundt pan

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  10. Bake cake in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.

    Apple Streusel Bundt Cake

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  11. Cool for 5 minutes in the pan.

    Apple Streusel Bundt Cake

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  12. Hold a baking sheet over the top of the cake and carefully invert it. Remove tube pan or bundt pan; cool completely. Move to a serving plate and ice with vanilla glaze, if desired.

    Apple Streusel Bundt Cake

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Tip

  • Quick Vanilla Glaze - Combine 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar with 3 tablespoons of soft butter. Add 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract and 2 to 4 tablespoons of hot water, or enough to make a glaze that can be drizzled over the cake.