This cake requires a bit of work but the effort was well worth it. Of course, you can skip making your own caramel sauce, and use a store-bought one. But you know it’s going to be different. There’s actually 3 recipes in this post. Streusel, salted caramel sauce, and a cake recipe. You can use the streusel recipe to top any coffee cake or muffins for that crumbly edge.
The salted caramel sauce needs no introduction. It goes amazingly well with any and every dessert! Salted caramel is another one of my kryptonite. I can go in spoonful after spoonful if I’m out of control. I tend to find quick ways to get rid of it. Either by using it for other bake products or giving it away to friends and family. I’m not sure how strong my will power is to keep myself away from that delicious thang if I know it’s still in the house.
So anyway, the sour cream and the apples keeps the cake nice and moist. The streusel gives it a contrasting texture, and the sauce hits all the right notes. There’s a lot going on, in this cake. And I’m certain that you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.
Apple Crumb Cake with Salted Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
Salted Caramel Sauce (makes about 1 1/2 cup)
- 1 cup 225g castor sugar
- ½ cup 117.5ml heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons 28.5g unsalted butter
- 1/2 tsp sea salt or to taste
Streusel Crumb
- 1 1/2 cup 192g flour
- 1/2 cup 100g brown sugar
- 1/4 cup 56g castor sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 cup 113g butter, melted
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Cake Batter
- 4 Tablespoons 56.5g butter, softened
- 1/2 cup 100g castor sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 cup 128g flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 granny smith apples-peeled and sliced
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
Instructions
Salted Caramel Sauce
- In a medium saucepan set over medium-low heat, melt sugar.
- Cook, without stirring, until the sugar has turned a deep amber hue, approximately 10 to 12 minutes.
- Then add butter while stirring constantly.
- Slowly whisk in the cream and continue simmering the mixture until it is smooth
- Remove from heat, then whisk in salt, to taste.
Streusel Crumbs
- In a bowl, whisk together all the dry ingredients.
- Pour in melted butter and vanilla, stir until moist and crumbly.
- Set aside.
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 175C.
- Toss sliced apples with cinnamon powder, then set aside.
- Line and grease a 8 inch round pan.
- In a mixing bowl, cream butter, sugar, and vanilla extract together until light and fluffy.
- Add egg and beat well.
- Add sour cream and beat until combined.
- Sift in dry ingredients (salt, baking powder, baking soda, and flour) to the butter mixture.
- Stir until combined.
- Spread half the batter at the bottom of the pan.
- Lay the apple chunks evenly on top of the batter.
- Sprinkle 1/2 of the crumbs mixture over the apples.
- Spread the remaining batter over the crumbs and on the top spread the rest of the streusel.
- Bake 35-40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Drizzle salted caramel sauce on top and serve.
Notes
5 Comments
octopusmum
13 January, 2017 at 3:40 pmHI Sharon
i have a silent reader of your blog. The recipes you shared are really good, have tried a few and got good results.. would like to check with you on this recipe.saw that you added some cinnamon on the apple slices but this step wasn’t documented in the recipe. may i know how much cinnamon should i add? just cinnamon only ?
thanks
Sharon Lam
31 January, 2017 at 9:44 pmHi! I must have missed your message! So sorry about that. I’ve edited the recipe to include the cinnamon. Good catch! 🙂
octopusmum
1 February, 2017 at 9:33 amthanks for your reply…oh, one more thing… if i serve this cake a day after i bake it, will the crumble become soggy? reason why i asked this is because, i made a similar crumble some time back and it was crispy when it was freshly baked but the next morning, it became soft and soggy…
Sharon Lam
1 February, 2017 at 9:52 pmI really can’t recall, but nobody complained of any soggy crumbles. To be honest, almost all the crumbles recipes will turn soft and soggy the next day due to moisture from condensation while cooling and from the cake itself. The best way to re-crisp them is to bring the cake to room temp, and bake it for 10-15 minutes for the top to crisp up again.
octopusmum
2 February, 2017 at 8:43 amthanks for the helpful tip! will do that 🙂