Brown Sugar Spiced Apple Cake

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

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
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

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