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Apple Cinnamon Snack Cake with Pecan Crumb

A tender, moist cinnamon cake studded with juicy apple pieces under a crunchy brown sugar pecan crumb.

Apple Cinnamon Snack Cake with Pecan Crumb

Ingredients

  • 2⅓ cups290 gAll-purpose flourdivided: 250 g for the cake, 40 g for the crumb
  • 1½ medium300 gApplepeeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
  • ¾ cup (180 ml)180 gButtermilk, low-fat
  • ¾ cup packed180 gBrown sugardivided: 130 g for the cake, 50 g for the crumb
  • ⅔ cup140 gUnsalted butterdivided: 110 g melted and cooled for the cake, 30 g cold and cubed for the crumb
  • 2 large100 gEggsroom temperature
  • ½ cup chopped60 gPecanschopped
  • ¼ cup50 gGranulated sugar
  • 2 tsp8 gVanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp8 gGround cinnamondivided: 6 g for the cake, 2 g for the crumb
  • 1¼ tsp6 gBaking powder
  • ¾ tsp3 gBaking soda
  • ½ tsp3 gSalt
  • ½ tsp1 gGround nutmeg

Steps

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 9-inch square pan and line it with parchment.
  2. Make the crumb first: in a small bowl, mix 40 g of the flour, 50 g of the brown sugar and 2 g of the cinnamon. Rub in the 30 g of cold cubed butter with your fingertips until clumpy, then stir in the pecans. Chill while you make the batter.
  3. In a medium bowl, whisk the remaining 250 g of flour, the remaining 6 g of cinnamon, the nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  4. In a large bowl, whisk the 110 g of melted butter, the remaining 130 g of brown sugar and all of the granulated sugar until smooth. Whisk in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla and buttermilk.
  5. Fold the flour mixture into the wet mixture until just a few dry streaks remain, then fold in the apple.
  6. Spread the batter in the pan and scatter the pecan crumb evenly over the top.
  7. Bake 40 to 45 minutes, until the crumb is golden and a toothpick in the center comes out clean.
  8. Cool in the pan on a rack for at least 45 minutes, then lift out and cut into 12 slices.

Food safety: Don't taste raw dough or batter: raw flour and raw eggs can carry germs.

Contains: Milk, Egg, Tree nuts, Gluten.

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Saved in the Every Helping recipe book on October 24, 2026.

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