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Chocolate chip apple cake is loaded with sweet apple chunks, chocolate chips and walnuts for a delicious fall dessert!

Fall is more than just pumpkins.

Did that just sound like blasphemy?!

Not that I don’t love me ALL the pumpkin things. You know I do.

But fall is also all about the apples. Fresh, crisp, perfect apples. Of the honey crisp variety now and then, if you’re lucky.

I eat an apple every day. Forget the doctor, I just think they’re delicious. When I was pregnant with J, in fact, I switched to eating two apples a day. I had my daily afternoon snack apple as usual and then after dinner, all I really wanted was another apple.

And you can’t say no to a pregnancy craving, so I happily gave in.

But when fall comes, and the honey crisp apples appear in my grocery store, I get a little giddy. And I sometimes go back to two apples a day. Can’t resist! 🍎❤️🍎

But this cake. This chocolate chip apple cake can happily replace my apple habit anytime!

In fact, when I make this cake, I eat IT twice a day and I don’t miss my daily apple at all. It’s got my beloved honey crisp apples plus applesauce to bring home the apple flavor. Plus walnuts (or pecans, whichever you prefer) for some crunch. Oh, and chocolate chips. Can’t forget those.

A few notes on this chocolate chip apple cake:

• I use white whole wheat flour, but you can substitute all-purpose flour if that’s what you use.
• I use walnuts, but you can substitute pecans.
• I’ve made this cake without sifting the flour and other dry ingredients. It turned out just fine. It’s a bit lighter, probably, with the sifting, but if you’re not picky, you can skip that step and just mix the dry ingredients together before adding them to the wet.
• I prefer to use honey crisp apples, but any sweet red baking apple will do.
• You must butter and flour your Bundt pan. Don’t go spraying it with cooking spray and expect a lovely cake to turn right out of the pan. No, no, no. It will stick and you will be sad when you finally pry it away from the pan and it’s all mangled. So smear some butter all over the pan – don’t forget the middle of the Bundt pan— sprinkle some flour, shake the pan around to get the flour evenly distributed and you’ll be rewarded with a perfect final cake. (And even if an apple chunk or two gets stuck, it’s easy to put back on the cake.)
• Drizzling the cake with chocolate sauce is optional.This cake is plenty sweet enough on its own if you want to skip it. I included a link to the homemade chocolate sauce I love in the notes of the recipe card if you want to use it.

Need some other apple inspiration?

Check out my slow cooker apple butter, apple butternut squash muffins and easy healthy apple crisp stacks. Apple love all the way!

Oh, and I redid the photos when I made the video (check it out below) but I wanted to keep this from my original photo shoot.

You can really see how loaded with apple and chocolate chips this cake is! 👇

Celebrate apple season with me and bake this cake!

(And check out my video below!)

XO,

Kathryn

** What are you some of your favorite fall traditions? Are there any favorite fall foods you make every year?

Chocolate chip apple cake

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Prep Time 30 minutes Cook Time 1 hour Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Yields 12 servings     adjust servings

Chocolate chip apple cake is loaded with sweet apple chunks, chocolate chips and walnuts for a delicious fall dessert!

Ingredients

• 3 large eggs
• 1 1/4 cups granulated white sugar
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature (1 stick)
• 3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups white wheat flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (or pecans)
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 2 apples, peeled, cored and chopped

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325. Butter and flour a 9- or 10-cup Bundt pan and set aside.
2. In a large bowl using a hand mixer (or a stand mixer), beat together the eggs, sugar and butter until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Add applesauce and vanilla and mix well.
3. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and allspice. Stir to combine.
4. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in two batches, mixing until just combined.
5. Fold in nuts, chocolate chips and diced apples and mix until combined. (I switch to a spoon at this point.)
6. Pour batter into greased Bundt pan, smooth the top, and bake for 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
7. Let cool for 10-15 minutes before removing from pan. Cool completely on a wire rack.

Recipe Notes

I use white whole wheat flour, but you can substitute all-purpose flour.

I’ve made this cake without sifting the flour and other dry ingredients. It turned out just fine. It’s a bit lighter, probably, with the sifting, but if you’re not picky, you can skip that step and just mix the dry ingredients together before adding them to the wet.

I prefer to use honey crisp apples, but any sweet red baking apple will do.

You must butter and flour your Bundt pan very, very well or the cake will stick. Smear softened butter around all the edges of your pan (including the middle), then add some flour and shake it around until everything is very well coated.

Drizzling the cake with chocolate sauce is optional. This cake is plenty sweet enough on its own if you want to skip it. Here’s the homemade chocolate sauce I make (and 1/2 of her recipe is plenty for this cake.)

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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size	1 slice of cake
Amount Per Serving	As Served
Calories 418kcal Calories from fat 179
% Daily Value
Total Fat 20g	31%
Saturated Fat 8g	40%
Transfat 0g
Cholesterol 67mg	22%
Sodium 276mg	12%
Carbohydrate 58g	19%
Dietary Fiber 3g	12%
Sugars 34g
Protein 7g

Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs:

	Calories	2000
Total Fat	Less than	65g
Sat Fat	Less than	25g
Cholesterol	Less than	300mg
Sodium	Less than	2,400mg
Total Carbohydrate		300g
Dietary Fiber		25g

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