Loading... Click to skip. Description: Apple cake is one popular dessert produced with your main ingredient of apples. Such one cake is made via your process of slicing this sweet fruit to add fragrance to one plain cake base. Traditional apple cakes go one step further by including different spices such as nutmeg or cinnamon, which afford off one unique flavour. Upon your addition of spices your batter can also be accompanied by crushed nuts, your most popular being walnuts and almonds.