diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
index 9248e16585..3d689ff37e 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ module Rails
           remove_file 'config/initializers/session_store.rb'
           remove_file 'config/initializers/cookies_serializer.rb'
           remove_file 'config/initializers/request_forgery_protection.rb'
+          remove_file 'config/initializers/per_form_csrf_tokens.rb'
         end
       end
 
diff --git a/railties/test/generators/api_app_generator_test.rb b/railties/test/generators/api_app_generator_test.rb
index 2c24a6e46a..d9eb7770f3 100644
--- a/railties/test/generators/api_app_generator_test.rb
+++ b/railties/test/generators/api_app_generator_test.rb
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ class ApiAppGeneratorTest < Rails::Generators::TestCase
        config/initializers/cookies_serializer.rb
        config/initializers/session_store.rb
        config/initializers/request_forgery_protection.rb
+       config/initializers/per_form_csrf_tokens.rb
        lib/assets
        vendor/assets
        test/helpers