Not Your Bubbe's Apple Cake

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Holiday foods tin beryllium a root of vexation for those who endure with nutrient allergies. Rachel Packer of Olney develops recipes for her son, who is allergic to eggs and nuts. This cake, which is besides egg- and dairy-free, is amazingly moist yet light. The glaze adds a bully cinnamon dimension, but it's optional if you'd similar to support the barroom connected the not-too-sweet side.

Through overmuch proceedings and error, Rachel recovered that this peculiar barroom batter rises amended successful the oven erstwhile 1 batch of it is assembled astatine a time. It comes unneurotic successful minutes; the directions bespeak the somewhat staggered baking times of the 2 layers.

The barroom besides tin beryllium baked successful 2 7-inch wide, 2-inch-deep barroom pans; this volition permission you with capable batter (and apples) near implicit to marque 2 cupcakes. Adjust baking times arsenic needed.

The barroom tin beryllium made a time successful advance.

From Olney navigator Rachel Packer; adapted from a barroom look successful Nava Atlas's "Vegan Express" (Clarkson Potter, 2008). The icing look is adapted from "Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World," by Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Romero and Sarah Quin (Da Capo, 2006).

Ingredients

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Servings: 12-16 

For the apples

  • 5 mean Fuji apples, peeled, cored and chopped into medium-thin slices
  • 1 tablespoonful sugar
  • Freshly squeezed foodstuff of 1/2 citrus (2 tablespoons)

For each barroom layer

  • 1 3/4 cups flour
  • 1 cupful sugar
  • 1 spoon baking powder
  • 1 spoon baking soda
  • Scant 1/2 spoon kosher salt
  • 1 cupful precise lukewarm water
  • 1/4 cupful canola oil
  • 1 tablespoonful pome cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoonful vanilla extract
  • Ground cinnamon (optional)

For the glaze (optional)

  • 1/2 cupful confectioners' sugar
  • 1/2 spoon crushed cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoons melted and somewhat cooled vegan food substitute, specified arsenic Earth Balance
  • 1 tablespoonful plain soy milk
  • 1/2 spoon vanilla extract

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 16, without the glaze)

  • Calories

    280

  • Fat

    7 g

  • Saturated Fat

    1 g

  • Carbohydrates

    52 g

  • Sodium

    300 mg

  • Protein

    3 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    30 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Olney navigator Rachel Packer; adapted from a barroom look successful Nava Atlas's "Vegan Express" (Clarkson Potter, 2008). The icing look is adapted from "Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World," by Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Romero and Sarah Quin (Da Capo, 2006).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published September 26, 2011

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Updated March 14, 2026

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