For Day 5 of Apple Week, I made a Caramel Apple Drip Cake! This is once again inspired by my love of Fall, and the flavors of apples and caramel. I particularly was inspired by the many types of caramel apples that I saw when I was in Apple Hill earlier this week. That is when I was struck with the idea to top this cake not with buttercream swirls or other designs, but keep it simple and focused on the caramel apple esthetic. While this cake has multiple components, it is quite easy to complete and it is definitely delicious!

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Ingredients:

• Apple Cider Sponge (3 layers + more for cake scraps; find my recipe here)
• Apple Cider Buttercream (find my recipe here)
• Apple Compote (find my recipe here)
• Caramel, room temperature (find my recipe here)
• White Candy Melts
• Vegetable Oil

Step 1: Make Apple Cake Pops

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Add approximately 2 cups of crumbled cake scraps and 5 tablespoons of buttercream into a mixing bowl. Mix until well combined and fill two of the cavities of the apple mold with cake pop dough. Place on a baking sheet and into the freezer for at least a couple of hours.

You can find the link to purchase the same apple mold I use here:

Step 2: Fill, Layer, And Frost the Cake

Add about a teaspoon of buttercream to the center of the cake board and then place the first layer of sponge on the cake board (the buttercream will act as a glue to ensure that the cake does not slide off the cake board). Add some buttercream to a plastic bag fitted with a Wilton 1A piping tip. Pipe a ring of buttercream around the perimeter of the sponge. Using a different piping bag, pipe some caramel and spread it into a thin layer on the sponge. Add a few tablespoons of apple compote on top of the caramel and spread into an even layer. Lastly, pipe some more caramel and spread it into a thin layer on top of the apple compote.

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Add the next layer of sponge and then repeat the process until the cake is fully stacked. Dirty ice/crumb coat the cake with a thin layer of buttercream and place in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. Once the buttercream firms up, add a thick layer of buttercream and use a bench scraper or another sharp sided kitchen tool to smooth the sides and top of the cake. Place in the refrigerator for at least a couple of hours in order to make sure that the buttercream is very cold when you do the caramel drip in Step 4.

Step 3: Finish the Apple-Shaped Cake Pop

Once the cake pops are completely solid, carefully remove them from the mold, and place them on a piece of parchment paper on the baking sheet. Leave them out at room temperature until they slightly thaw. Carefully insert a popsicle or cookie pop stick into the top of the cake pop and place in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

Add approximately 1 cup of white candy melts to a microwave safe bowl. Heat in short increments of 10-30 seconds at a time, and stir between each heating increment. Once the candy melts are fully melted, add one tablespoon of vegetable oil and mix until well combined. Fully coat on the apple cake pops in the candy melts and place back onto the parchment paper. Allow the coating to fully set before moving on to the next section of Step 3.

If the room temperature caramel does not easily flow, add approximately ½ cup of the caramel in a microwave safe container and heat for 10 seconds. Place one of the apple cake pops on a plate. Pour the caramel onto one of the cake pops and make sure that it is fully coated in the caramel. Place the cake pop back on the parchment paper and into the fridge while the caramel drip is completed.

Step 4: Caramel Drip

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Add the room temperature caramel to a plastic squeeze bottle (preferred), a piping bag, or simply use a spoon. Slowly add the caramel right along the edge of the top of the cake and allow it to drip down the side of the cake. After making drips down the side of the cake, add a layer of caramel to completely cover the top of the cake. Take the caramel coated cake pop and place it in the middle of the cake. Put the cake in the refrigerator to let the caramel set, and your caramel apple cake is ready to enjoy!

Thank you so much for checking out this post! I hope that you enjoyed it and that you try it out yourself! Please leave a comment below regarding if you tried it, or what other cakes I should try to make!