Vegan Apple Spice Snacking Cake
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups whole wheat pastry flour or whole spelt flour
- ½ cup coconut palm sugar or brown sugar or cane sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon aluminum-free baking powder
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon cloves optional
- ¼ cup melted coconut oil or unsalted butter not vegan
- 1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar or distilled white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup orange juice*
- 1 large apple peeled, cored and diced, about 1 cup
- ½ cup unsulphured raisins optional
- 16 raw walnut halves if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. You can grease your pan with coconut oil or butter and line it with unbleached parchment paper if you want to remove it from the pan to serve it. Otherwise, no greasing necessary if you will cut pieces from the pan to serve.
- Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Make a well (indentation) in the flour mixture.
- Pour the coconut oil, vinegar, vanilla, water and orange juice in the well and stir until everything is just combined. Do not overmix!
- Fold in diced apple pieces and raisins.
- Pour batter into pan and smooth out top. If you want, evenly space walnut pieces over batter. Bake for 30 – 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Notes
*Or use all water and up the coconut sugar to 2/3 cup. You can also add diced dates.