Apple Cake with Cinnamon – Gluten Free
Practice Makes Perfect!
It took me FIVE TIMES to get this recipe just right!
All my happy taste testers liked it right away but I knew it could be even better…and the following recipe is.
This is a deeply satisfying cake filled with healthy ingredients. Apples being one of them!
Apple Cake – Vegan Gluten Free (dairy & egg free)
Ingredients:
2 cups fresh apples + 1/2 cup sliced apples for top
1/2 cup vegetable oil or coconut oil
1/2 cup rice syrup
1 tsp stevia
4 Tbsp chick pea or soy flour
1 cup brown rice flour
1/2 cup Potato flour
1/2 cup arrowroot starch
5 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp sea salt
2/3 cup water or 1/2 cup if you like a drier cake.
3 tsp cinnamon
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375º F.
2. Oil and lightly flour 8” X 8”cake pan.
3. Chop 2 cups of apples into one inch pieces.
4. Sprinkle apples with 2 tsp of cinnamon.
5. Slice 1/2 cup apples into slices to decorate the top of the cake.
6. Blend vegetable oil, rice syrup, and water in blender.
7. Mix flours, baking powder and sea salt in a separate bowl.
8. Add chopped apples to dry flour mixture.
9. Pour liquid mixture into dry ingredients.
10. Mix quickly.
11. Immediately pour batter into cake pan.
12. Decorate top of cake with apples.
13. Sprinkle 1 tsp cinnamon on top of apples.
14. Bake at 375º F. oven for 35 To 40 minutes.
To top this cake off ice it with Coconut Butter Icing
About Diana Herrington
I am the head chef at Real Food for Life and author of the GREEN means LEAN and Balance Your Body e-books. I turned a debilitating health crisis into a passion for helping others with healthy, sugar free, gluten free eating and cooking.
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Oh this cake is soo yummy. I have not made it myself but I have sampled Diana’s and it has lots of flavour and is very moist.
Can you substitute coconut flour for soy? We have allergies to soy.
the gingerbread cake uses molasses, that is what I was asking about
This sounds good too!
Stephanie, use flax seed meal instead of the soya as the cake needs something to help it stick together.
Stephanie, I replied to your and other’s questions on http://realfoodforlife.com/gingerbread-cake-wheat-free
Can you suggest an alternative to rice syrup, not sure we can get it here in South Africa?
I have an article that explains the 19 sugars and their different benefits; click here: http://realfoodforlife.com/19-different-sugars
Barley Malt maybe the closest.
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise. Dianna
Thank you Dianna for your appreciation, we do our best and really want to get the message out about Real Food.
I have never seen soy flower nor guar gum. who wouod have that?
Karl, you can get them at a health food store.
Hi guys – you can get rice syrup here in South Africa – try a health food store – I’ve seen it at “The Healing Tree” in Adelphi Centre, Sea Point – try Wellness in Kloof Street.
Diana, there is an awful lot of Baking powder in this recipe,also vegetable oil, an omega 6 oil – I think coconut oil would be better or palm fruit oil (new in South Africa, & orange in colour & comes from the fruit of the palm tree, not the root of the tree, like palm oil & palm kernel oil, which is a big no no for health- palm fruit oil is wonderful, with plenty of anti-oxidants & natural vitamin E)
Hope you don’t mind my input.
Regards Joy
Thank you Joy for letting us know where you can get stuff in S Africa.
I like input so no worries. I know there is a lot of baking powder but even so it is not a light cake. In most of my baking I have been using coconut oil as I am find it healthier; I will add that to the recipe above. I would like to know more about palm fruit oil and try it.
This looks so good! I am going to surprise my family on Sunday wtih this! Can I use oat flour buckwheat flour in place of potato flour? thank you!! I am so grateful to have found your amazing website tonight!
Buckwheat flour will not be a good replacement for potato flour as it needs to be something to help bind it all together. Also, buckwheat flour has a strong taste for a dessert. Better to add more brown rice flour and chick pea or soy flour. Let me how it works. Always interested in baking experiments.