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Apple Pie Cake

Apple Pie Cake
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Get ready for fall with this delicious, dairy free apple cake. (You can also make it gluten free.) It’s the perfect make ahead dessert for Shabbat, High Holidays, brunch or any day you need a quick homemade sweet.

Ingredients for apple pie cake


Just slice apples, top with cinnamon sugar and pour the batter on top. Use a brownie pan or pie plate.

You can use a brownie pan or pie plate.
This easy formula is so good, why not try making it with a variety of other fruits?Pears, Dried Cherries and Rum

Variations

 

Get creative! I made a version with sliced pears and rum soaked cherries as well as a cake with a combination of raspberries, blackberries and sugar.

Raspberry and Blackberry Pie cake

 

The combination of batter and fruit creates a cake filled with a custard pie like consistency.

Hence the name, apple pie cake.Apple Pie Cake and Pear Cherry Cake

Make your own cinnamon sugar by combining one cup sugar with one tablespoon cinnamon.
Make your own cinnamon sugar by combining one cup sugar with one tablespoon cinnamon.

The original recipe for this amazing cake comes from Maxine Pacanowski in Sydney, Australia. Maxine is part of a cooking group called the Monday Morning Cooking Club.  You can find her original recipe here.

Cut around the apple core and slice each apple into 12- 16 pieces.
Cut around the apple core and slice each apple into 12- 16 pieces.

However, when I realized that a piece of Maxine’s apple cake was 325 calories and 36 grams of fat, I decided to lighten the recipe and make serving sizes smaller.

Load apples and top with cinnamon sugar.

The result is a cake with a third less calories and fat but all of the flavor of the original recipe.

Mix wet ingredients with an electric mixer or by hand until the batter folds into ribbons when you lift your spoon or spatula.
Mix wet ingredients with an electric mixer or by hand until the batter folds into ribbons when you lift your spoon or spatula.
Fold in flour with a spatula and mix just until combined. Pour in half the batter, then let batter settle into the fruit before pouring in the rest.
Fold in flour with a spatula and mix just until combined. Pour in half the batter, then let batter settle into the fruit before pouring in the rest.
Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top and bake for 50 minutes to one hour.
Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top and bake for 50 minutes to one hour.

Be sure to check out the nutrition label underneath the recipe below. Whether you make Maxine’s original cake or my “lightened up” version, put this apple pie cake on your must make list.

Apple Pie Cake fresh from the oven.
Apple Pie Cake fresh from the oven.

Slice cake into 8 rectangles, then slice each rectangle on the diagonal to look like slices of pie.

Dig in

Cool cake completely in the pan and refrigerate before  cutting for easier, even slices. Serve warm or at room  temperature with extra cinnamon sugar and non dairy topping, if desired.

Dig in to Apple Pie Cake, a light and easy dairy free cake for beginners and seasoned bakers!

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Nutritional information based upon all purpose flour, light olive oil and 2 T cinnamon sugar.
Nutritional information based upon all purpose flour, light olive oil and 2 T cinnamon sugar.

Can be made...

Gluten FreeHealthyVeganVegetarian

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  2. Sara says

    Hi!
    I need this to serve more people. Do you think it would work doubled in a 9×13? And since it’ll be my son’s birthday cake, how do you think it would taste with a light frosting?
    Thank you!

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