Gluten-Free Vegan Apple Cake - Rhian's Recipes (2024)

This Gluten-Free Vegan Apple Cake issuper moist, soft and squidgy and perfectly spiced! It's rich and nutty, warming and comforting and packed full of sweet, juicy apples. It's so easy to make, comes together in one bowl and is refined sugar free too.

Now that I've made an Apple Upside Down Cake and an Apple Pie recipe, I knew it was time tomake a spiced apple cake kind of between a pudding and a sponge cake.

How to make this recipe

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• Use abox graterto grate the apples.

Instead of adding large chunks of apple, I went for grated apple. It's much easier as you don't have to peel the apple first, and this method also allows you to pack in tons of apples and helps create an amazingly squidgy texture.

• Mix together all the ingredients (including the grated apple) in aglass mixing bowl - use ameasuring jugto measure out the plant-based milk.

I used date syrupin this cake asits thick and nectar-like texture makes the cake taste a little like molasses.It adds an amazingly rich flavour, whilst still being refined sugar free. Although you can use maple syrup instead, I love the stickiness that the date syrup adds.

I love to add some spices like ground ginger, cinnamon and vanilla for a warm, toasty, fragrant flavour reminiscent of all things cosy and autumnal.

• Transfer the cake batter into abaking dish.

Tip: Line itwith greasedbaking paperto make the cake easier to take out afterwards.

• Bake in the oven for30 minutes.

Substitutions you can make

• You can use any type of oil: coconut oil, olive oil or vegetable oil.
• You can use any type of plant-based milk: almond milk, rice milk, soy milk, cashew milk, oat milk etc.
• You can use any type of liquid sweetener: date syrup,maple syrup, agave syrup, brown rice syrup etc.
• The apple cider vinegaris crucial as the acidity reacts with the alkali bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) - it can be replaced with lemon juice.
• You can replace the ground walnutswithground almonds/almond meal.
• You can use plain flour,wholemeal (whole wheat) flouror spelt flourinstead of the gluten-free flour if you’re not gluten-free.

Other ingredients you can add

• You can top this cake with chopped walnuts,pecan nutsorflaked almonds before baking.
• You can add raisins, chopped dates,chopped dried figsor dried cranberries to the batter.

Serving suggestions

• You can top the cake with vegancream cheese frosting.
• I personally love to go down the pudding route and smother this apple cake in a thick duvet of rich custard. Thiscustard powder is my favourite as it's made with just few simple ingredients and it's vegan, gluten-free and completely free from sugar.

More similar desserts

• Fig Upside Down Cake
• Apple Pie
• Pear Dark Chocolate Pudding
• Apple Upside Down Cake

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