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Simple Wholemeal Apple Cake

October 18, 2016 by hannahhossack 15 Comments

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Simple wholemeal apple cake – moist wholemeal cake filled with fresh apple and spices; easy to make and the perfect mid-morning or afternoon snack.

Simple wholemeal apple cake - easy to make, moist wholemeal cake filled with fresh apple and spices

As much as I enjoy making towering, intricately decorated layer cakes, the cakes that I most enjoy eating, and crave most often, are generally a far simpler affair. The kind of cakes that aren’t too pretty to look at, but you feel much less guilty about eating a massive wodge of for a mid-morning snack.

I had been craving apple cake for a couple of weeks and when the tree in the garden yielded a few ready-to-pick apples that weren’t great for eating fresh, but were good for cooking with, I finally got round to satisfying the craving with this simple wholemeal apple cake.

Simple, easy to make, wholemeal spiced apple cake

This is a moist cake filled with chunks of fresh, tangy apple; the wholemeal flour gives it a hearty texture and the demarera sugar on top lends a nice crunch.

It is very easy to make, only uses one bowl and there is no need to use an electric mixer; the butter is rubbed into the dry ingredients, as if you were making pastry, then the rest of the ingredients are simply stirred in with a spatula.

It keeps well in an airtight container (though only lasted two days in our house) and makes a lovely snack, or even breakfast. To make it a little more indulgent it could be served warm with custard or cream, though I like it best as is, with a big mug of tea.

Easy apple coffee cake made with wholemeal flour, fresh apple and spices

Recipe for a simple wholemeal spiced apple snack cake

Simple Wholemeal Apple Cake Recipe:

Easy, one-bowl wholemeal spiced apple coffee cake
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5 from 1 vote

Simple Wholemeal Apple Cake

serves 6
Author Domestic Gothess

Ingredients

  • 350 g sharp eating apples such as cox unprepared weight, 12oz/3 medium
  • 225 g self-raising wholemeal flour 8oz
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 115 g butter 1 stick, firm but not fridge cold, cubed
  • 115 g light brown soft sugar 2/3 cup
  • 1 large egg beaten
  • 110 ml milk 1/3 + 1/8 cup, more if needed
  • 1 1/2 tbsp demarera sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4. Grease an 18cm/7in round deep cake tin and line the base with baking parchment.
  • Peel, core and dice the apples, set aside. Mix together the flour, salt, cinnamon and mixed spice in a large bowl;add the butter and rub in using your fingertips until the mixture resembles course sand and no chunks of butter remain.
  • Stir in the sugar, then the apples. Mix in the egg followed by the milk. The mixture should be quite stiff but if it seems dry add a little more milk until it reaches a reluctant dropping consistency.
  • Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and level. bake for about 1 hour, but start checking for doneness after 45 minutes; it should be firm and a skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean. Cover loosely with foil partway through baking if the top begins to darken too much.
  • Remove the cake from the oven and immediately sprinkle with demarera sugar. leave to cool in the tin for half an hour or so then turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely. Store in an airtight container.

Easy, one bowl wholemeal spiced apple snack cake

Easy, one-bowl wholemeal spiced apple coffee cake

I am sharing this with Fiesta Friday hosted by Foodbod and O Blog Off, Foodie FriDIY and Foodie Friends Friday

 

Filed Under: Baking, Cakes, Recipes Tagged With: Apple, autumn, breakfast, coffee cake, easy, Fruit, simple, snack cake, Spice

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Comments

  1. Miranda

    October 18, 2016 at 6:31 pm

    Using wholemeal flour is such an interesting idea, I’ll definitely have to try it out! The cake sounds so delicious!

    Reply
    • hannahhossack

      October 19, 2016 at 11:02 am

      Thank you! The wholemeal flour makes the cake feel like more of a legitimate snack rather than an indulgent cake (so you can have two slices 😛 )

      Reply
  2. Vivabop

    October 19, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    This looks like such yummy comfort food, I am practically drooling after looking at all your beautiful images. I have a friend with an abundance of cooking apples from the trees in her garden, so I am thinking that this might be the recipe to use some of them up!

    Reply
    • hannahhossack

      October 31, 2016 at 11:08 am

      I used apples from the tree in my garden for the cake, so it’s perfect for using up home-grown fruit!

      Reply
  3. Christina Nifong

    October 21, 2016 at 1:15 pm

    Just made a very similar apple cake last night. Love the whole grains in this one. Will have to give it a go!

    Reply
    • hannahhossack

      October 31, 2016 at 11:06 am

      Thanks Christina, I’m sure you’ll love it!

      Reply
  4. Charlie @ The Kitchen Shed

    October 24, 2016 at 6:41 pm

    Wholemeal Cake! YUM!! I am a lover of all things wholemeal and cake is another of my all time favourite foods. This looks so delish, perfect for this autumnal weather.

    Reply
    • hannahhossack

      October 31, 2016 at 11:03 am

      Thanks Charlie 🙂 It’s the perfect cake for autumn, and the wholemeal and apple make it feel almost healthy (while still being totally delicious!)

      Reply
  5. Kathy

    December 16, 2016 at 5:52 pm

    I was in my kitchen cooking sunday roast / reading blogs / thinking what’s for pudding when I saw your post and as I have a apples from my garden I made this cake and I served it with custard from a tin. It was delicious , thank you for sharing at the right time !

    Reply
  6. Pam

    September 1, 2019 at 8:09 am

    Ithought it was vegan! What about the egg?

    Reply
    • hannahhossack

      September 1, 2019 at 8:46 am

      Hi Pam, this is one of my older recipes which are not vegan; this started out as a regular food/baking blog then I went vegan a couple of years ago. All of my vegan recipes clearly state so in the title. Here is a vegan apple cake recipe: https://domesticgothess.com/blog/2018/09/28/vegan-apple-bundt-cake/ Alternatively, if you want to make this simple wholemeal apple cake one you could try swapping the egg for a flax egg.

      Reply
  7. Ra'eesah

    March 28, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    5 stars
    Had some apples on the turn and some wholemeal self raising flour sitting around so this recipe seemed like a perfect excuse to use up both! Followed the recipe exactly except that I used oat milk and vegan butter and baked in a loaf tin. This tasted amazing but I found that it was a bit too crumbly to slice very well. Not sure what I did wrong. However, it was a perfectly tasty weekend cake to have with a hot mug of tea.

    Reply

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