This tender vegan apple cake has a sticky caramel sauce glaze that makes it twice as scrumptious! In case you love caramel apples in Fall, you’ll go head over heels for this wonderful vegan cake.

Fall is all about baking scrumptious, purple and gold desserts with apples, like this vegan French apple tart, vegan apple pull aside bread and vegan tarte tatin. One other favourite for me this time of 12 months is that this yummy vegan apple cake topped with a sticky, buttery caramel sauce.

That is an extremely simple dessert to make, and the caramel sauce, though delicious and straightforward too, is optionally available. The cake itself is a revelation: the apples soften down into juicy little pockets that dot the moist, tender crumb with walnuts including nutty crunch.

If you’re trying to make this dessert more healthy, you’ll be able to simply substitute the flour for complete wheat pastry flour, with wonderful outcomes. The cake is comparatively decrease in fats and it is loaded with one of many healthiest fruits you’ll be able to eat!

Why you’ll love this recipe

• Scrumptious and healthy-ish! The cake has a moist, tender crumb, because of the apples, and the sticky caramel makes it extremely yummy. If you’re a well being fiend you can also make this apple cake with complete wheat pastry flour, which provides an ideal end result.
• Simple recipe. The cake is a one-bowl recipe and you may bake it in any cake pan you have got. I used a bundt pan to make it fairly, however if in case you have an everyday spherical cake tin or a sq. brownie pan you should use these as properly!
• Make-ahead pleasant. This vegan apple cake may be saved within the fridge for as much as every week, or it may be frozen for as much as three months.
• Soy-free and vegan. You’ll be able to skip the nuts in case you are nut-free.

Substances

• Apples. You should utilize any apple on this cake recipe, apart from powdery apples like purple scrumptious. See FAQs under for extra on this.
• Flour. Unbleached all goal flour is what I used however complete wheat pastry flour works fantastically too. You may also use a half-and-half mixture of complete wheat flour and all goal flour.
• Leavening: Baking soda and baking powder
• Corn starch or tapioca starch. You should utilize both. The starch works as an egg alternative and helps construct the cake’s construction.
• Floor cinnamon. Apples and cinnamon are a match made in tastebud heaven. You may also add floor cloves, floor nutmeg or floor ginger for extra complexity.
• Sugar. I like utilizing an unrefined granulated sugar like turbinado sugar on this recipe. You may also use coconut sugar, brown sugar or vegan cane sugar.
• Oil. I used avocado oil. Use any unflavored oil of your alternative.
• Non-dairy milk. I used oat milk. Use any non-dairy milk of your alternative, together with almond milk, cashew milk or soy milk.
• Pure vanilla extract. This provides extra sweetness and yum to the apple cake.
• Walnuts or pecans. I exploit both relying on what I’ve readily available. They add a stunning crunch. You’ll be able to skip the nuts in case you are nut-free.

For optionally available caramel glaze

• Sugar. Use any granulated sugar, I used turbinado sugar.
• Nondairy milk. This helps make the caramel glaze creamier. Use oat milk, soy milk, almond milk or any non-dairy milk of your alternative.
• Vegan butter. This provides that tremendous buttery taste to the glaze.

Methods to make vegan apple cake

Place the flour in a bowl together with the baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, corn starch and salt.

Use a whisk to combine all of the elements.

Add the moist elements to the dry elements within the bowl: sugar, dairy-free milk, oil and pure vanilla extract.

Use a spatula to combine the cake batter. Make certain there isn’t a dry flour on the backside of the bowl. The batter will probably be very thick, however that is okay.

Add the finely chopped apples to the batter.

Combine them in. Set the batter apart for quarter-hour. It will give the apples a while to precise moisture into the batter.

Fold within the chopped nuts, if utilizing, into the batter.

Scoop the cake batter into an oiled and floured bundt cake pan or one other cake pan. Easy the highest.

Bake in a preheated 350-degree Fahrenheit/180-degree Celsius oven for 45 minutes or till a toothpick inserted close to the middle comes out clear.

Let the cake cool on a rack for quarter-hour, then invert it onto a plate. To do that, place the plate over the bundt pan and flip it shortly. Drizzle the glaze over the cake with a spoon. (See recipe card under for glaze elements and recipe).

Recipe FAQs

Storage ideas

• Refrigerate: The apple cake may be saved within the fridge for as much as every week.
• Freeze: Wrap the cake in two layers of freezer wrap or retailer it in a freezer-safe container.
• Thaw utterly to room temperature earlier than serving.

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Vegan Apple Cake Recipe

This tender vegan apple cake has a sticky caramel sauce glaze that makes it twice as scrumptious! In case you love caramel apples in Fall, you’ll go head over heels for this wonderful vegan cake.