Dessert and A Guest Blogger!

Hi everyone!  I’m Penni’s sister, Marissa, and am happy to contribute a recipe that we adapted to be gluten free/grain free.

Here’s the original recipe and instructions (which was recently being shared on FB):

One Bowl Apple Cake – This cake is so moist and rich and just perfect for this time of year. (and easy to make!)

Ingredients:

2 eggs

1 3/4 cups sugar

2 heaping teaspoons cinnamon

1/2 cup oil 6 medium Gala or Fuji or Honey Crisp apples

2 cups all purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

Directions: Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, mix the eggs, sugar, cinnamon and oil. Peel and slice the apples and add to mixture in bowl (coating as you go to keep apples from turning brown.) Mix together the baking soda and flour and add to the ingredients in the bowl. Mix well (best with a fork) until all of the flour is absorbed by the wet ingredients. Pour mixture into a greased one 9×13 or two 9″ round pans. Bake for approximately 55 minutes.

I simply can’t make a recipe exactly following directions anyway, so it was fun to convert this.  And I couldn’t imagine making this without using some brown sugar, so that was one of our changes.  Here’s our new gluten free/grain free recipe:

Ingredients:

2 eggs

1 cup  sugar

3/4 cups brown sugar

2 heaping teaspoons cinnamon

1/2 cup oil (we used olive oil)

6 medium Gala or Fuji or Honey Crisp apples (we used some Honey Crisp, some ???)

2 cups all almond flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

We followed the rest of the directions (but added some small chunks of butter to the top), baking ours in a 9×13 pyrex pan.   The ‘cake’ tasted great!! Definitely didn’t have a cake consistency though, maybe more of a wet crisp?  Perhaps next time we’ll use a thickener and maybe some more almond flour.  It was definitely worth making, and worth making again!  Hope you like it!