Apple Apple Cake
photo by tulips
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 3 large eggs
- 3⁄4 cup turbinado sugar (or use any granulated brown sugar)
- 1⁄4 cup virgin coconut oil
- 5 cups golden delicious apples, peeled and cut in chunks (about 5 apples)
- 3 ripe bananas
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons ground allspice
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground ginger
- vanilla, just enough to bring up the other flavors
- 1⁄3 cup whole walnuts, cut into small pieces to taste
- 1⁄4 cup dried cranberries
- 1⁄4 cup golden raisin
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat together eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla until creamy.
- In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder and remaining spices.
- In another bowl mush the bananas until creamy.
- Add the bananas to the egg mixture and beat well. Then add the flour mixture and beat well. Then add the raisins, walnuts and cranberries and mix again.
- Finally add the apple chunks and mix with a spatula. The end mix will look like chunks of apple covered with cake batter. Do not get discouraged, pour on an oiled and floured baking dish and pat down mix with a spatula, filling in gaps as you go. I made a grid pattern with sesame seeds and sprinkled some black seeds in the voids. I sprinkled the cake with Turbinado sugar to give it a rich fancy finish. Bake for 1 hour depending on your oven.
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Reviews
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This is a firm, dense, and very moist cake. I couldn't believe that the amount of apples called for would bake properly, but they did. Combining the whole wheat flour, cranberries, raisins, and nuts - it's almost a fruit cake - but more soft and moist. I used granny smith apples and toasted amonds instead of walnuts. The batter is SO chunky; thanks for the warning Tulips! Baked in a 13x9 glass baking dish at 350 degrees for about 55 mins.