A fall favorite, a delicious easy cinnamon apple cake with a fluffy light texture, moist with fresh apple puree instead of eggs, topped with a cinnamon crumble, dairy free, made in one bowl with under 8 ingredients.
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Butter and flour a round 8-inch cake pan.
Add lemon to milk and allow 5 minutes to curdle.
Peel one apple and chop it into chunks.
Don't peel 2 others, and chop them, add them to a blender with a bit of water and lemon juice and blend into a puree.
Make cake
Add the apple puree, sugar and all wet ingredients to a bowl, and stir until combined.
¾ cup cane sugar, 2 apple (not peeled, chopped, blended into a puree), ⅓ cup milk, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, ¼ cup olive oil, 1 teaspoon vanilla
Add in the dry ingredients, and stir until combined. Fold in half the peeled chopped chunks of apple into the batter.
1 ½ cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ¼ teaspoon salt
Pour the batter into the pan, and scatter the rest of the peeled chopped chunks of apples on the top of the batter.
1 apple (peeled, chopped into chunks)
Mix up the crumble. Use a fork to chop butter, cinnamon sugar and flour together, and sprinkle on top.
¼ cup flour, 3 tablespoon butter, chilled stick, chopped, 3 tablespoon brown sugar, 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1 tablespoon cane sugar
Bake at 350 F for 40 minutes or until the tester comes out clean. Readers have said sometimes it has taken 45 minutes - it depends on how your oven runs.
Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes. Then run a knife around the inside edge, and carefully lift the cake out and set it on a wire rack until it's cool enough to serve.
Stir glaze together and drizzle over the cooled cake.
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Notes
Storage. The cake stores in a sealed container for 3 days at room temperature. Keep the cake, sliced or not, in a sealed container for 1 week in the refrigerator. Freeze the cake in a sealed container or wrapped tightly for up to 3 months.Apple type. For a sweeter cake, use Gala, Fuji, Honeycrisp, Red Delicious. For a tart tang to the cake, use Granny Smith, McIntosh, Pink Lady, SweeTango apples.