Gingerbread Apple Cake
Swedish style apple cake loaded with cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, brown sugar and rich ginger infused brown butter.
Ingredients
For the Apple Cake:
- 2 ½ cups All Purpose Gluten Free Flour 316g
- 1 ½ cups Dark Brown Sugar 300g
- 1 ½ tsp Baking Soda
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 tbp Ground Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Nutmeg
- 1 tsp Cloves
- 1 cup Vegan Buttermilk 240ml 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice + Soy Milk up to the 1 cup line
- ⅓ cup Vegan Butter
- 2 tbsps of ground ginger
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 Tbsp Applesauce
- 1 ½ cups locally grown apples Peeled and Chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325°F (160°C). Set aside a 9x 13 baking pan (or any size dish you have)
- Sift the flour into a mixing bowl and add the brown sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg and mix together.
- Prepare your vegan buttermilk by adding 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice to a measuring jug and then adding plant based milk up to the 1 cup (240ml) line. Leave it for a minute to allow it to curdle.
- 4.Add the vegan butter and ginger to a pan let bulb and stir for a few minutes until it starts to brown a little.
- Let the butter cool a minute then add it to a bowl with the buttermilk, vanilla, apple cider vinegar and applesauce mix in properly. The batter will be thick.
- Add in the chopped apple pieces and fold in.
- Transfer to your prepared baking dish and smooth down.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Serve with a cup of coffee or cup of tea.