Tag: Apple cake

Moist apple muffins

****Dairy free, soya free, egg free and gluten free ***

Really moist buns

** Ingredients **

1 cooking apple – finely chopped

30ml/2 tblsp golden syrup/maple syrup/honey

80ml/third of a cup of milk (any alternative milk)

60ml/quarter cup of any flavourless oil

125ml/half cup yogurt

180g/1&half cup self raising gluten free flour

1 tsp baking powder

** Method **

  • Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
  • Whisk the syrup, milk, oil and yogurt together. (This is an important step)
  • Add to the flour and baking powder.
  • Mix well but don’t over mix.
  • Fold in the fruit.
  • Get into oven as quickly as possible.
  • Put in bun cases, should make 10 muffins and bake for 20 minutes.

Alternatives
– Add 50g strawberries

– Add 50g blueberries

– Add 50g dairy free chocolate

– Add 50g grated carrot

– Replace 50g of the flour with cocoa powder

Golden syrup
A question regularly asked is what is golden syrup? The following information is taken directly from Wikipedia.
Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made in the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance similar to honey and is often used as a substitute where honey is unavailable or prohibitively expensive.
It is not to be confused with amber corn syrup or amber refined sugar. Regular molasses, or dark treacle, has both a richer colour and a strong, distinctive flavour.
A common brand used is Lyle Golden Syrup.

Apple Squares

Apple dessert

*** Dairy free, soya free, egg free and gluten free ***

These freeze well and store in freezer for up to 3 months.

Ingredients
200g self raising gluten free flour
1 tsp baking powder
100g sugar
50ml flavourless oil (sunflower oil, vegetable oil, rapeseed oil)
160ml milk (any alternative milk)
15ml/1 tbsp/20g golden syrup
1 tsp cider vinegar

1 medium cooking apple

Method

  • Line a 200mm x 200mm baking tray with parchment/greaseproof paper.
  • Preheat oven to 180 Degrees Celsius

Sponge layer

  • Mix all dry ingredients
  • Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.

Apple layer

  • Slice apples thinly and layer on tray.
  • Sprinkle sugar over the apples.
  • Pour sponge mix over the apple mix and put into oven as quickly as possible and bake for 22/25 minutes.

Simple apple cake

Simple apple cake***Dairy free, Soya free, egg free and gluten free ***

Ingredients

200g/2 cups self raising flour (I use gluten free self raising flour)

1 tsp baking powder

A pinch of salt

1 tsp cinnamon

100g/ half cup caster sugar

120g/half cup&1 tbsp melted butter or oil

125ml/half cup milk (I use rice milk)

1 cooking apple – these are sourer that eating apples

Method

  • Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcuis
  • Mix all the ingredients together except the apple. Make sure they are well combined. Add extra milk if it’s not fully coming together.
  • Peel and slice the apple and fold into the cake mix.
  • Put in lined loaf tin and bake for 40/45 minutes.

Alternatives

  • If using eating apple, use half the amount of sugar.
  • Makes 10 muffins, bake for 20 minutes.
  • Add 50g of raisins or 50g of chocolate chips

Apple muffins

*** Dairy free, soya free, egg free and gluten free ***

Really moist buns

*** Ingredients ***

125ml golden syrup
80ml milk (any alternative milk)
60ml flavourless oil (sunflower oil, vegetable oil, rapeseed oil)
125ml yogurt (I use koko yogurt)
180g self raising flour (I use gluten free self raising flour)
1 tsp baking powder

1 medium cooking apple

** Method **

  • Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
  • Whisk the golden syrup, milk, oil and yogurt together.
  • Add to the flour and baking powder.
  • Mix well.
  • Slice/finely chop the apple and fold into mixture
  • Put in bun cases and bake for 18/20 minutes. The recipe makes 10 muffins.

These freeze well and an easy snack.

Golden syrup
A question regularly asked is what is golden syrup? The following information is taken directly from Wikipedia.
Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made in the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance similar to honey and is often used as a substitute where honey is unavailable or prohibitively expensive.
It is not to be confused with amber corn syrup or amber refined sugar. Regular molasses, or dark treacle, has both a richer colour and a strong, distinctive flavour.
A common brand used is Lyle Golden Syrup.

Apple layered cake

apple cake

Apple layered cake
*** Dairy free, soya free, egg free and gluten free ***
Sponge layer
170g self raising gluten free flour
1&half tsp baking powder
100g caster sugar
40ml flavourless oil (I used sunflower oil)
70ml apple puree
200ml milk (I use rice milk)
Apple layer
2 medium cooking apples
3 tablespoon caster sugar (may need to vary depending on sweetness of apples)
*** Method ***
Preheat oven to 180 deg Celsius
– Sponge layer –
Mix all dry ingredients
Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
– Apple layer –
Line cake tray with parchment paper.
Slice apples thinly and layer on tray.
Sprinkle sugar over the apples.
Pour sponge mix over the apple mix and bake for 20/22 minutes.