Apple Crumb Cake Chef Tom’s Organic
This is an Athos family favorite cake. It’s a great cake to make with a family member or friend. One person can prepare apples and oil the cake pan while the other mixes up the cake batter and crumb topping. All the ingredients for this tasty cake are organic.
Cut Fruit
4 cups small diced, peeled apples ½ tsp cinnamon
Dry Ingredients
3½ cups whole wheat pastry flour ½ cup white unbleached flour 4 tsps baking powder 1 tsps baking soda 1 tsps cinnamon ¼ tsps nutmeg ½ tsps sea salt
Wet Ingredients ½ cup vegetable oil ½ cup maple syrup 1 lemon juiced (4Tbs) 1 tsps vanilla 1¾ soymilk
Crumb Topping
1½ cups whole wheat pastry flour ½ tsps cinnamon ¼ tsps sea salt ¼ cup vegetable oil ¼ cup maple syrup 1 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 325°. Lighly oil two 9-inch cake pans. Cut peeled apples into small cubes sprinkle with cinnamon.
Mix the dry ingredients for the crumb topping together in a bowl. Mix the wet ingredients for the crumb topping in a measuring cup and pour into the dry crumb topping mixture. Mix crumb topping with a fork until small crumbs form (the best tool for this step is your hands.)
Mix together dry cake ingredients in large bowl. Mix cake wet ingredients in a 4 cup measuring cup or bowl. A whisk is ideal for this step.
Pour wet cake ingredients into dry cake mix. Combine with a spoon until all dry ingredients are moistened. Finish mixing with whisk to remove most of the lumps in the batter.
Add cubed apples. Mix lightly with spoon.
Pour into two oiled cake pans, add crumb topping and bake for 40-45 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
You can leave cakes in the pans to serve or turn over onto a flat plate, cool and then flip back to another flat serving plate. Serve and enjoy as is or with vanilla ice cream ~ (we like Rice Dream Vanilla Ice Cream) and a dribble of chocolate sauce for a special occasion.
Variation: You can make muffins with this batter. Reduce baking time to only 30 minutes.
Replace apples with 3 cups blueberries for a Blueberry Crumb Cake or 3 cups of grated carrots for a Carrot Crumb Cake
Add chopped walnuts to the apple or carrot crumb cake when you add the cubed apples or grated carrots.
Chef Tom has been cooking natural desserts for 40 years and is the owner of Natural Lifestyle Mail-Order Market
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