This old fashioned applesauce bundt cake with caramel glaze is a sweetly spiced dreamy dessert!

You’ll love this amazing applesauce bundt cake topped with caramel glaze–it’s like eating a caramel apple in cake form!

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You know how some days, you just want a delicious dessert that doesn’t require a lot of effort?

You want to make something that people will rave about, but the reality is you have very little time to spend baking.

Enter the humble bundt cake.

I’m convinced that the bundt cake is one of the most underutilized of the easy desserts.

You just whip up the batter, pour it into a tube pan, and bake! Once it’s done, you don’t have to worry about frosting the cake with perfect technique–you just spoon on some glaze and call it good.

Because it is good. Really good.

Bundt cakes are also really easy to serve–they’re easier to slice than most layer cakes, and you can get several servings from one cake.

And since I adore apple butter bundt cake, triple chocolate bundt cake, red velvet bundt cake, this eggnog bundt cake, apple cider bundt cake, the super fun rainbow bundt cake, the decadent chocolate chip bundt cake, this pumpkin spice bundt cake, pear bundt cake, and of course chocolate sour cream bundt cake, I decided to try making yet another variety!

I mean, why not?

Applesauce Bundt Cake with Caramel Sauce

The ease of a bundt cake is what inspired me to make this easy apple cake with caramel sauce!

The cake is super moist and full of apple spice flavor!

You can totally just give it a dusting of powdered sugar and it would be delicious. But the caramel glaze totally takes it to the next level–it’s an amazing pairing with the applesauce cake!

You’ll love this caramel apple bundt cake recipe–it’s great any time of year, but it’s especially perfect for the fall! It would also make a delicious dessert for your Thanksgiving dinner!

And I happen to know firsthand that leftover slices of this cake make a tasty breakfast–perfect with a cup of hot tea or coffee! 😉

How to Make an Applesauce Bundt Cake from Scratch

You’ll start by combining the dry ingredients in a bowl–flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

With an electric mixer, combine the white and brown sugars, applesauce, oil, and eggs. I like using oil in this applesauce cake recipe because it helps keep it moist and lofty–and since we’re using applesauce, you don’t need as much oil as most cake recipes.

Then, gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and it’s all set to bake!

You’ll bake it at 350F for 50-60 minutes, then allow it to cool before topping it with the decadent caramel glaze.

To prepare the caramel sauce, you’ll combine some brown sugar, butter, and milk in a saucepan.

Bring that to a boil and stir it for about a minute, while the sugar dissolves. Remove it from the heat and let it cool a bit, because that will allow it to thicken slightly.

Then drizzle that caramel goodness right over your cooled cake!

Notes and Adaptations:

• I had some homemade cinnamon applesauce on hand, so that’s what I used for this cake. But you can definitely use applesauce from the store, too!
• The applesauce I used was unsweetened, because I don’t add sugar to my Instant Pot applesauce. If you use sweetened applesauce, you may want to dial back on the sugar just a bit.
• If you want to add nuts to the cake, you definitely could! I think chopped pecans or walnuts would be perfect!

More Apple Recipes You’ll Love:

• Instant Pot Apple Butter
• Easy Apple Hand Pies