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Paleo Apple Cinnamon Cake

Ingredients

  • 2 cups almond flour
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 cup arrowroot powder (available online and at some farmer's markets)
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
  • 1/2 cup raw honey
  • 1 egg
  • 1 medium apple, peeled, cored and diced
  • 1 Tbs vanilla extract (optional)
  • dash freshly grated nutmeg

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350℉.
  2. Combine all dry ingredients (except nutmeg) in a bowl and stir well to incorporate.
  3. In a separate bowl, combine coconut oil, honey, egg and vanilla extract (optional), and stir to combine.
  4. Mix this into the dry ingredients and stir until just combined.  Add the apples and stir one more time.
  5. Pour batter into a pan greased with coconut oil. Sprinkle with freshly grated nutmeg.
  6. For a cake or loaf pan, bake approximately 30 minutes.  For cupcakes, bake approximately 14 minutes.

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8 Comments

  1. is arrowroot that important to have in this recipe?

    Court

  2. Can I sub. in Coconut Flour instead of almond Flour?? Almond allergy :-(

    Jessica

  3. This is my boyfriend’s favorite! Tastes like good old fashioned Jewish Apple Cake but with none of the guilt. Btw, I LOVE the site redesign. It looks FAB!!!!!

    Robin

  4. Made these tonight. They’re really good. I doubled up on the Apples and also added some walnuts. A great dessert and or breakfast treat.

    Eric

  5. We love this dessert! We also add organic semi sweet chocolate chips to batter before cooking! So yummy!!

    Wendi

  6. Can I ask, are these quantities correct? I’ve just measured everything out and when I mixed in the wet ingredients, there was still dry almond flour in the bottom of the bowl. To take this up, I added a few glugs of coconut milk. I am really beginning to despair with paleo cake recipes as I haven’t found one yet that seems to have the proportions right as when I add the ingredients together, I get a solid, unmixable mass with some dry ingredients left over and the resulting mixture is always far from what anyone would call a ‘batter’.
    Before I went paleo a few months back, I baked a lot so I know it’s not my baking technique at fault here!
    Any advice for a paleo newbie much appreciated.
    Thanks.

    Sue

  7. Can I sub coconut flour for the arrowroot if I add another egg? I’m overseas and too excited to wait for arrowroot flour in the mail to try this recipe!

    Susan

  8. Susan – Honestly, I don’t think it will be quite the same because arrowroot has a starchy consistency that coconut flour lacks. But if you did it, please let us know how it worked!

    Neely

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