This Vegan Apple Cake is a rich, moist sponge brimming with soft apples and warming spices. Perfect as dessert or simply with an afternoon cuppa!

I can’t remember how many cakes I’ve made in my time.  Everything from a simple chocolate cake, to lavish wedding cakes.  And while most were made for other people to enjoy I do absolutely love a slice of cake for myself.  And now the evenings are darker, the nip is definitely in the air and the leaves are turning their glorious colours of autumn my heart wants a BIG piece of spiced vegan apple cake.

How to make Vegan Apple Cake

This Vegan Apple Cake recipe could not be simpler, pop the apples on to cook, mix up a cake mix, combine together and pop it in the oven. Okay, so that’s a very stripped down version but it really is very simple and hugely satisfying, not to mention that it makes a smell that will have your neighbors popping round!

Tips for the perfect Vegan Apple Cake

Golden Delicious Apples – they’re a good all round apple  Not too tart, not too sweet and with a firm enough texture that they can be cooked without turning to mush.  For I also like bites of soft apple in my spiced vegan apple cake rather than just apple mush!

Apple Juice –  this helps keep the cake deliciously light and moist

Ground almonds – these help give it a looser crumb so its not too dense.

Why we love this Vegan Apple Cake

I’ve seen many recipes on my travels that don’t cook the apples before you bake them in the cake.  I’ve tried this and I’m honestly not a fan of crunchy bits of apple in soft, delicate sponge.  Noppety nope, not for me.  I also think cooking them before mixing into the cake batter really helps bring out that divine apple flavour.

With a lot of the things I make, particularly cake things, Phil and I taste them, taste them again just to make sure then I pack him off to work or the gym with any ‘spares’.  This has a twofold benefit.  We probably shouldn’t eat a whole cake or 12 muffins/mini loaves to ourselves.  And I get less biased feedback than our own.  But this spiced vegan apple cake didn’t make it to either of those destinations.

Now if you’ll excuse me I’m off to have another slice 😉

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