Name: Brown Sugar Spiced Apple Cake
Yield: Serves 6–8
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons soft brown sugar; 1 vanilla pod (bean), split and the seeds scraped out, or 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract; 200 g (7 oz/2 cups) almond flour; 250 ml (8½ fl oz/1 cup) plant milk; 3 tablespoons buckwheat flour; 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) maple syrup; plant-based vanilla custard (see Homemade Custard, to make your own); 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; pinch of pink Himalayan salt; 4 apples, unpeeled and cored, then quartered and sliced into thin half-moons; 125 ml (4 fl oz/½ cup) melted coconut oil; ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); 1 teaspoon baking powder