Brown Sugar Spiced Apple Cake

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

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Celebrate

By Bettina Campolucci Bordi

Published 2021

About

This is hands down my favourite cake recipe. The apples, the brown sugar and the caramelisation of both is a match made in heaven. This is also happens to be gluten free!

Ingredients

For the Cake

200 g (7 oz/2 cups) almond flour
3

Cake
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C 350°F/gas 4). Line a 20 cm (8 in) cake pan with baking parchment or