Almond Spiced Apple Cake

Making recipes on the fly either goes great or you regret that you every put on your pretend fancy chef's hat. I got really lucky on this one and it turned out fantastic. So fantastic, in fact, that I didn't get a good photograph of it before it was mostly devoured!

I love a great apple cake but they are ridiculously unhealthy. I once made one with my family that called for 2 cups of vegetable oil, 2 cups of sugar and more refined flour than was necessary to kill a room full of Celiac patients. This recipe skips the evil gluten and opts for a healthier approach to satisfying your sweet tooth. In my version I used farm eggs so my cake is much more yellow than would be had I used store eggs. I also had to compensate with a little extra flour since farm eggs tend to run a little bigger. Maybe the chicks are happy they get to run free all day eating worms and table scraps and aren't cooped up being sad. Or it could just be the breed. I like to think they are happier chickens and eggs.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 c Oil. I used Canola but you can always use apple sauce
• 1/2 c Sugar
• 3 tbl Honey
• 4 Eggs 
• 1/2 c Almond Milk
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1 1/2 c Almond Meal/Flour
• 3/4 c Sweet White Sorghum Flour
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and chopped up
• 1 tbl Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Nutmeg

Prep:

Oven to 350 F. Peel, core, and chop the apples. Set them aside. Set out two bowls, one for dry, one for wet. In the wet bowl, cream the oil and sugar then add the eggs. Add in the almond milk, vanilla and mix until smooth. In the dry bowl, combine flours, salt and baking powder. Slowly pour the wet into the dry while whisking. If the mixture is too soupy, add a little more almond flour until desired consistency is reached.  Once together, add 1/2 of the apples and the spices. Grease a cake pan and pour the mixture in. On the top of the mix add the remaining apples. This can be filled pretty full since the cake doesn't expand a lot. I don't recommend making the container totally full or you will have a mess in the oven.

Cook:

350 F for 40-50 minutes. The first 30 minutes are uncovered and the rest covered to prevent too much browning of the apples.