Vegan Apple Walnut Cake

Submitted by Enjolinfam

"This is probably one of our favorite deserts! It's a good vegan comfort food. We got it from a friend and altered it to perfection."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 40mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups vegetable oil
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 egg substitute, equivalent to 2 egg or 1/2 cup soft silken tofu
• 3 tablespoons vanilla
• 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1⁄2 cups wheat flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon allspice
• 1 cup walnuts
• 3 cups apples

directions

1. Chop walnuts and dice apples.
2. Preheat the oven to 350°F In a large bowl, combine the oil, sugar, egg substitute, and vanilla.
3. In a separate bowl, sift the flour, baking soda, and salt.
4. Add this to the oil-and-sugar mixture and stir by hand, approximately 200 strokes, until it is thoroughly mixed.
5. Fold in the walnuts and diced apples. The batter will be a little stiff.
6. Pour it into a greased and floured 10-inch tube or Bundt pan or use two bread pans.
7. Bake the cake at 350°F for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Reviews

[Chef Joey Z.]

I made this cake this afternoon and it turned out very good. It is a very dense cake, that's for sure. The house smelled so delicious while it was baking. I used 1/2 cup plain soy yogurt in place of the eggs and I used 1 1/4 tsps. of Pumpkin Pie spice as I didn't have the allspice. I think this would go great with a scoop of Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream or some Vegan Caramel Sauce. Thanks for the great recipe.

 

[Lisa V.]

This vegan version of The Silver Palate’s, Chunky Apple Walnut Cake won’t disappoint any of the original devotees! As in the original, however, I used brandy instead of the vanilla extract in this recipe’s version. One of my favorite cakes.

 

[keramil]

I had a similar cake from our grocery store and wanted to find a recipe...this was great! I made it with the silken tofu and used cane sugar with a little brown sugar because that's all I had! I think next time I will use less oil...maybe reduce to a cup or so. Also added some chia seeds. It was SO good for breakfast, late night snack, whatever!

 

[One Happy Woman]

WOW - how fabulous! Thank you thank you. I've been fearful of 'baking vegan' and after making some vegan bran muffins, I decided to step up to cake. This makes a very tender, flavorful, moist cake. The cake part was light as air, but I made the recipe into cupcakes and perhaps that helped the batter rise. It made 18 generous cupcakes, baked for 45 minutes, in non-stick-sprayed silicon muffin pans. Also, I used the Nori silken tofu and substituted used 1/2 cup sugar and 1 1/2 cups Splenda. Also, I used 1 1/2 cups unbleached white flour and 1 1/2 cups unbleached white whole wheat flour, added some nutmeg and clove to the cinnamon because I didn't have allspice on hand. Note: just made these again and used 1 1/2 c. Splenda, no sugar, and reduced the fat to once cup. Still terrific. Great recipe. We frost these just before serving with Tofutti 'cream cheese' mixed vanilla, Splenda and a little cinnamon. Don't frost ahead of time - the 'frosting' dries and crazes.