Spiced Apple Cake

Spiced Apple Cake, a steaming cup of coffee perfect recipe for cold winter days. Easy to make, moist and full of fall flavors!!

Spiced Apple cake I baked on a Sunday morning for VK his favorite dessert which also happened to be International Men’s Day and needless to say he loved it so much. His favorite dessert is a well made cake with fruits and nuts and no icing. What better occasion to bake him a cake with apples which had been lying in the refrigerator to be used. And by the time it was evening not even a crumb was left, it was that good.

Ok, so we love a moist cake and that too without any icing or very minimal something. This is one cake which has all the gorgeous spices, cinnamon, that hint of ginger walnuts and my favorite honey crisp apples. This cake is perfect answer for your anytime dessert cravings and yes it’s perfect for breakfast as well.

What I love most about this cake is that it is extremely moist, has beautiful cinnamon flavor but spices do not over power the flavor of honey crisp apples. Since this particular variety of apple is crisp and juicy they never get too tender while baking. Love the way they come out baked. Talking about the apple have you tried Apple Cinnamon Bun with spiced cream cheese glaze yet??

The cake here is dense than your regular fluffy cake, trust me you are going to love every bite of it. Here I’ve used the apples two ways, firstly some chopped apples which go in the batter and secondly peeled and thinly sliced apples are studded on top of the batter. Rest all ingredients are pantry staples so get them out and get started. I’m pretty much sure you will be baking this right away.

I’ve added a touch of dark Rum here which only adds more flavor to the cake but you can always leave out if you baking one for kids.

So once the cake is done, dust with powdered sugar and serve warm with some Maple sweetened greek yogurt. Needless to say it is the best fall dessert.

Have already baked it twice, will be baking again soon. It is so good.

Let’s bake.

Spiced Apple Cake

Ingredients

· 210 grams All purpose flour

· 120 ml Olive Oil

· 2 eggs at room temperature

· ½ cup greek yogurt

· ½ tsp pure vanilla extract

· 1 ½ tsp baking powder

· ½ tsp salt

· 1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon

· ½ tsp ground cloves

· ¼ tsp ground ginger

· 1 ½ cup light brown sugar

· 2 tbsp dark rum

· 1 cup walnuts chopped

· 3 medium apples, cored and peeled

· ½ cup Maple sweetened greek yogurt (to serve)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease a 23 cm baking tin.

· Chop 1 ½ apple and thinly slice the remaining.

· In a bowl whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and ginger powder.

· In another large bowl add the oil, sugar and beat for 2 minutes. Add one egg at a time and beat till incorporated. Add the yogurt,vanilla and rum and whisk till incorporated. Add the flour and mix till incorporated.Gently fold in the walnuts and chopped apples. Do not overmix the batter.

Pour the batter in the prepared baking tin and gently level the surface. Arrange the apple slices in circular pattern on top of the batter. Sprinkle some brown sugar.

· Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes or until the skewer comes clean. Tent a foil if it begins to brown to fast on the top.

· Once done allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes before removing. Allow to cool further on wire rack. Sprinkle powdered sugar and serve warm with maple sweetened yogurt.

Thanks so much

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