Looking for unique German gifts?   |   Grab Oma's cookbooks!   |   Don't miss Oma's Newsletter  |  Make Oma's favorite recipe

Heidi's Apple Pudding Cake

➤ by Oma Gerhild Fulson

Try this apple pudding cake warm from the oven. Tastes heavenly! Don't forget the whipped cream.

This apple pudding cake, aka Apfel-Puddingkuchen, tastes just like a traditional Apple Bread Pudding recipe. It's one of those easy dessert recipes that's delicious served warm with ice cream and sprinkled with cinnamon.

It's also one of those dessert recipes because it's a "quick clean-up" version. It's made right in the baking dish, so it's really quick and easy. 

Apple Pudding Cake is best served warm, right from the oven. Top it with whipped cream or ice cream for an extra special treat and sprinkle extra cinnamon over it if you wish.

Cake Origins ...

This recipe comes from my German friend, Heidi. It was a recipe she tweaked from a newspaper years ago. She would often treat us to this warm apple pudding cake and was very willing to pass on the recipe for you AND me to enjoy!

Actually, since it's best warm, it's great to make when company comes calling. Not only is it best fresh, but clean up is so easy.

Everything for the dough is mixed right in the baking pan. I prefer to use a 9 X 9 inch glass baking dish, because it looks pretty enough to serve from.

Need that “all’s good with the world” feeling? Comfort food will do that. Grab my German Comfort Foods e-Cookbook written in English just for you.

Sharing traditional German foods, made using easily available ingredients, ... that's such a delicious way to feel a 'hug' anytime of the year.

You'll enjoy serving this all year long. Apples are readily available and it's so easy to make this "pudding" that's true comfort food, warm from the oven.

Heidi's Apple Pudding Cake

Have the kids (grandkids) help with this ...

This is a fun dessert to make with kids, because it looks really weird when you pour in the water. You'll want to stir. Don't! Don't stir this. It'll work out. Trust me.

You'll have delicious apple pudding cake to enjoy once it's baked!

Apple pudding cake with whipped cream. The PERFECT afternoon dessert for Kaffeeklatsch.

Leftovers?

They're good too. However, I like to zap them in the microwave for a few moments to warm up. Brings back that "fresh" taste and aroma. Again, top with ice cream. Yummy!

Ready to make this apple pudding cake?

Heidi's Apple Pudding Cake

Heidi's Apple Pudding Cake

This apple pudding cake, aka Apfel-Puddingkuchen, tastes like a traditional Apple Bread Pudding. It's an easy dessert recipe that's delicious served warm with ice cream and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Since it's made right in the baking dish, it's really super quick and easy.

Prep Time

10 minutes

Bake Time

50 minutes

Total Time

60 minutes

Servings:

Makes 9 servings

Ingredients:

  • 4 apples, peeled and sliced
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla or almond extract
  • 2 - 3 tsp butter
  • 2 cups boiling water

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 400° F.
  2. In a deep 9 X 9 inch pan, mix together the sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
  3. Add the apple slices and mix until coated with the flour mixture.
  4. Add the milk that has been mixed with the vanilla or almond extract.
  5. Stir until everything has been moistened. Smooth out the top. Dot the butter on top.
  6. Put pan on rack in oven and carefully pour the 2 cups of boiling water over the top. DO NOT STIR. (Put a baking sheet on the rack under your pan. Sometimes it bubbles over when it's baking.)
  7. Bake for 40 - 50 minutes or until top is golden brown.
  8. Let cool slightly before serving. Sprinkle extra cinnamon on top if desired.

Notes/Hints:

  • Omit cinnamon if desired.
  • Sprinkle slivered almonds on top before baking if desired.

*  *  *  *  *

Unless otherwise noted recipe, images and content © Just like Oma | www.quick-german-recipes.com

Want Nutritional Information?

Copy and paste the above ingredient list and the number of servings into Calorie Count for an approximate calculation.

Need Help Doing Conversions?

Make it easier to convert between cups and grams, etc. Use this site to give you all the different conversions for the different types of ingredients. 

You might like these

  • Apple Dump Cake made Just like Oma

    This Apple Dump Cake is so easy and so delicious. Keep all the ingredients in your cupboard ready for unexpected company. You whip up this dump cake recipe in minutes.

  • Fruit Pudding Recipe - Rote Grütze made Just like Oma

    This fruit pudding recipe, the original Rote Grütze, is one of Schleswig-Holstein's traditional desserts. Now it's found throughout Germany. And at our house in Canada!

  • Easy Apple Strudel made Just like Oma

    Easy apple Strudel? Really? YES! Here's an easy recipe that really, really is easy. Slightly cake-like, its flavor really shines through. It's a make-your-hubby-happy kind of cake.

Leave a comment about this recipe or ask a question?

Pop right over to my private Facebook group, the Kaffeeklatschers. You'll find thousands of German foodies, all eager to help and to talk about all things German, especially these yummy foods. 

I pop in all the time as well, to chat and to answer questions. 

Meet with us around Oma's table, pull up a chair, grab a coffee and a piece of Apfelstrudel, and enjoy the visit.

Newest Recipes

RSS

  1. Pfeffernusse (Iced German Gingerbread Biscuits)

    I was searching for this recipe on Pinterest and found this one on YouTube as a tutorial. Am very pleased how they turned out, would have made my mother-in-law

    Go to the recipe

  2. How to Make Cashew Cream

    How to make cashew cream is really quite simple. At its most basic, it is a combination of cashews, water, and salt. Cashew cream is one of the many delicious dairy-free recipes made with cashews.

    Go to the recipe

  3. What Are Cashews Good For?

    What are Cashews Good For? Let me tell you! Besides adding them to all sorts of stir-fries, salads, and pasta or noodle dishes for a delicious crunch factor, you can also ...

    Go to the recipe

*  *  *  *  *

PIN this ...

Try this apple pudding cake warm from the oven. Tastes heavenly! Don't forget the whipped cream.
Apple pudding cake with whipped cream. The PERFECT afternoon dessert for Kaffeeklatsch.

Apple Pudding Cake baked Just like Oma

By
Apple Pudding Cake baked Just like Oma
This apple pudding cake tastes like a traditional apple bread pudding cake. It's one of those easy desserts that's delicious warm with ice cream and sprinkled with cinnamon. Wunderbar!

Ingredients: apple, brown sugar, butter, flour,

For the full recipe, scroll up ...

Words to the Wise

"A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands."

Proverbs 14:1 (NLT)


Top of Apple Pudding Cake

  1. German Recipes
    2.  ›
  2. Desserts
    3.  ›
  3. Apple Pudding Cake