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Here is one my mom used to make for her bridge club. Found it in one of her old recipe boxes.

APPLE CAKE

This incredibly delicious and moist cake is a great cake for a pot luck or gathering, or serve it as a brunch or coffee cake. It doesn’t need a glaze, but a caramel glaze would be delicious, or just dust it with a little sifted powdered sugar.

Ingredients:
•3 Golden Delicious apples (about 1 pound), peeled, diced
•1 cup pecan pieces
•1/2 cup sugar
•2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
•4 large eggs
•2/3 cup safflower oil or Canola
•2 1/4 cups sugar
•1 cup applesauce
•1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
•3 cups all purpose flour
•3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
•1/2 teaspoon salt

Preparation:

Heat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 12-cup Bundt cake pan or spray thoroughly with a flour and oil baking spray.
Core apples and dice in 1/4-inch dice. Put diced apples in a bowl with pecan pieces, 1/2 cup of sugar, and the cinnamon. Stir to blend; set aside.

In a large a mixing bowl, stir or whisk the eggs with oil, sugar, applesauce, and vanilla. In another bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Slowly beat dry ingredients into the oil and applesauce mixture until well blended. Stir in the diced apple mixture. Spoon into the prepared baking pan. Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until a cake tester or wooden pick inserted in center comes out with a few crumbs clinging. Cool in pan on a rack for 15 minutes. If necessary, carefully loosen sides with a spatula. Put the rack over the pan and carefully invert. Cool completely.

Slide the cooled cake onto a serving plate, or to be safe, place the baking pan over the cake again, flip with the rack, then cover with a serving plate and invert again.

Apple Coffee Cake

Cake:
1 stick plus 2 teaspoons unsalted butter
1-1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups peeled, cored and chopped apples

Crumb Topping:
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish with the 2 teaspoons of unsalted butter.

In a large bowl, cream remaining butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, mix well after each addition. In a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt (whisk to mix). Add to the wet ingredients, alternating with the sour cream and vanilla. Fold in the apples. pour into the prepared dish, spread to even out the batter.

To make the topping, mix the sugar, flour, cinnamon, and butter in a small bowl. Mix until it resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over the cake batter. Bake until golden brown, approximately 35 to 40 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack.

Easy Apple Cake

1 Yellow cake mix, made to package directions
3-4 of your favorite cooking apples peeled, cored and thinly sliced, in rings makes building the cake quicker(I usually use McIntosh if I can find them)
1/2 cup brown sugar (More or less, to taste)
1 Tablespoon cinnamon (Again more or less, to taste)
1/2 teaspoon allspice, freshly ground, if you can (Yeah, more or less, to taste)

Batter in a prepared 9x13 pan. "Shingle" the apple slices on the cake, overlapping by half. Sprinkle the brown sugar, cinnamon and allspice on the apples. Bake according to package directions, but cake may take up to five minutes longer to bake than directions call for.

This is one of my "hurry up emergency desserts." You don't have to let it cool to frost it because you don't frost it. You don't even need to let it cool, it goes great still warm with vanilla ice cream. I have served this after discovering at 4 pm that we were having dinner guests at 6.