This superbly tasty gluten free spiced apple cake boasts a golden, light crust and moist and sweet crumb, dotted with apple pieces and spiced with cinnamon.
It's really easy to make the batter in a single bowl and as long as you have a bag of self-raising gluten-free flour, you won't need any other special ingredients.
To make this lovely, tender gluten-free loaf cake, you'll start by creaming butter and sugar together, then whisk in milk and eggs. Next, you'll sift in gluten-free self-raising flour and cinnamon to give a lovely light texture to your final cake and a deliciously cinnamon-spiced flavour.
Finally, you'll fold in diced apple pieces, spoon the batter into a lined loaf tin and bake for an hour until it's beautifully risen and golden. See? So simple!
Here's the full recipe for my gluten free spiced apple cake along with lots of tips to help you along the way.
Ingredients
- 170 g (1½ sticks) unsalted butter softened
- 200 g (1 cup + 2 tbsp) white caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 3 medium free range eggs
- 3 tbsp milk
- 200 g (1¼ cups) gluten-free self raising flour (self rising flour)
- 2 eating apples peeled, cored and chopped into 1½ cm (½ inch) pieces
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180C (160C fan assisted, 350F).
Put the sugar and butter in a large bowl.
Whisk together until fluffy.
Add the eggs and milk.
Whisk together.
Sift in the flour and cinnamon.
Fold together.
Add the apples.
Fold into the mix.
Spoon the mixture into a medium-sized, lined loaf tin.
Oil a knife and touch it along the length of the cake, just a mm or two (1/16 inch) deep. This ensures that your cake rises beautifully along the centre.
Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean.
Look at that beautiful rise and golden crust!
Cool completely on a wire rack and then slice and on its own, with cool cream, warm custard, or chill in the fridge and put generous slices in lunchboxes
LUSH! I could eat this all day. What do you think?
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Gluten Free Spiced Apple Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 170 g (1½ sticks) unsalted butter softened
- 200 g (1 cup + 2 tbsp) white caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 3 medium free range eggs
- 3 tbsp milk
- 200 g (1¼ cups) gluten-free self raising flour (self rising flour)
- 2 eating apples peeled, cored and chopped into 1½ cm (½ inch) pieces
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C (160C fan assisted, 350F).
- Put the sugar and butter in a large bowl. Whisk together until fluffy.
- Add the eggs and milk, then whisk together.
- Sift in the flour and cinnamon. Fold together.
- Fold in the chopped apples.
- Spoon the mixture into a medium-sized, lined loaf tin.
- Oil a knife and touch it along the length of the cake, just a mm or two (1/16 inch) deep. This ensures that your cake rises beautifully along the centre.
- Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Cool completely on a wire rack and then slice and serve on its own, with cool cream, warm custard, or chill in the fridge and put generous slices in lunchboxes
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kylie Fisher says
This recipe is perfect for my Gluten Free friend. I often find it hard to get a good recipe which is suitable but this is great, she is a great lover of the Cinnamon and Apple combination and would be suitable for Christmas as well with the addition of dried fruits.
Alison says
This looks lovely and you made me hungry
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