Apple Cake Tray bake
A deliciously light and fluffy cake made with seasonal apples and plenty of cinnamon. Made with aquafaba instead of eggs so this recipe is 100% vegan!
Servings: 12 Slices
Calories: 283kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
For the cake
- 150 ml sunflower oil (or other neutral oil such as light olive oil)
- 14 Tbs Aquafaba (chickpea water) unbeaten. The equivilant of the liquid in a standard 400g/16oz chickpea tin (can)
- 225 g light brown sugar
- 300 g plain flour (all purpose flour)
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- 50 ml lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoon plant milk up to 3 tbsp
- 250 g apple roughly two apples
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoon extra light brown sugar to sprinkle on top of the cake.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
- Line a traybake tin: 32cm by 22cm (12 x 9")
- Peel and finely slice the apples into little half moon shapes.250 g apple
- Squeeze the lemon juice over the apples to prevent them browning.50 ml lemon juice
- Add the aquafaba, sugar, oil and vanilla essence to the sugar.150 ml sunflower oil, 14 Tbs Aquafaba, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 225 g light brown sugar
- Whisk the oil, aquafaba, and sugar until the mixture is well combined, lighter, and noticeably thickened.
- Fold in the flour and baking powder and 1 teaspoon of the cinnamon. Mix well to combine.300 g plain flour, 3 teaspoon baking powder, 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- Add the plant milk to loosen the batter.2 tablespoon plant milk
- Pour half the cake mix into the prepared baking tin, and spread it out to the corners.
- Place the apple slices over the cake batter in neat rows, (keep a few aside to put on the top of the cake) then sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon over.250 g apple, 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- Smooth over the rest of the cake batter, being sure not to disturb the apple layer too much.
- Add a few extra apple slices on top, and sprinkle over the extra brown sugar.2 tablespoon extra light brown sugar
- Pop in the oven and bake for 30-35 mins. Test with a skewer to see if it is cooked through. If it comes out clean, it's ready to take out of the oven. If it comes out a little gooey, leave the cake in for another 5 mins. The cooking time will really depend on how large your tin is, so if you use a smaller tin, adjust the time to be a little longer.
- Cool the cake in it's tin for 10 mins, then turn out onto a cake rack.
- Once cool, turn the cake onto a serving plate. Serve with icecream or cream, or a drizzle of caramel sauce.
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Notes
TOP TIPS:
- Be sure to slice the apples thinly, otherwise you will end up with soggy patches in the cake.
- The apples provide much of the moisture content so this needs to be quite a sticky cake batter rather than runny, so don't add in too much plant milk.
Nutrition
Calories: 283kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 10g | Sodium: 113mg | Potassium: 82mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 18IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 87mg | Iron: 1mg