This quick and easy vegan apple cake recipe is super moist, healthy and delicious! The simple sponge cake batter with rolled oats, applesauce, diced apples and cinnamon comes together in a few minutes and requires no eggs, butter or dairy! Perfect for breakfast, dessert or as a snack at any tome of the day!
Healthy Apple Cake with Oats
Who doesn’t love the smell of freshly baked apple pie and apple cake? However, classic recipes often contain lots of unhealthy ingredients such as refined sugar, butter and eggs. But don’t worry, you can still enjoy a delicious apple cake that is healthy and doesn’t need eggs, dairy or butter. Whether as a snack, for breakfast or as a dessert – this vegan apple cake recipe is guaranteed to please you and your guests.
The Easiest and Best Vegan Apple Cake
To bake this cake, all you need to do is mix a few simple ingredients into a quick batter and place in a baking tin along with fresh diced apples. The apple cake is quick to make and perfect for anyone looking for a healthier and delicious alternative to grandma’s classic. Easy to make, wholesome and ideal for any time of year!
Why an Apple Oatmeal Cake?
Rolled oats are a wonderful ingredient in healthy cooking. They provide valuable fiber, which ensures good digestion, and contain long-lasting carbohydrates that provide you with energy throughout the day. Oats are also an excellent nutrient-rich alternative to conventional pastry flour and give your apple pie a deliciously nutty flavor.
Advantages of the Recipe
- Vegan and lactose-free: This recipe is completely free from animal products.
- No eggs or butter: ideal for anyone who wants or needs to avoid eggs or butter.
- Rich in fiber: Thanks to the oats, the cake not only stays fresh for longer, but also makes you feel pleasantly full.
- Natural sweetness: The apple cake is sweetened with natural ingredients such as apples and a sugar alternative.
- Easy to make: Even without any baking experience, you’ll have no trouble conjuring up a delicious cake with this recipe.
Ingredients for the Apple Cake
- Apples (preferably tart apples such as Boskoop or Elstar)
- Flour (all-purpose, wheat, spelt or gluten-free flour)
- Quick oats
- Baking powder & baking soda
- Cinnamon & sugar (variety as desired or mixed)
- Salt
- Plant milk (e.g. soy milk)
- Applesauce (or another egg substitute)
- Oil (e.g. butter-flavored canola oil or sunflower oil)
- Vanilla extract (or seeds from a vanilla pod)
- Sliced almonds (or other nuts e.g. walnuts or hazelnuts for a little crunch)
How to make Vegan Apple Cake from Scratch
As always, I recommend watching the recipe video and checking out these step-by-step instructions first. You can then find the full recipe with the exact quantities in the recipe card below!
Step 1: Prepare the baking tin, cut the apples and make the batter
Grease the sides of a 8 inch (2o cm) round baking tin and line the base with parchment paper. Peel and core the apples and chop into small cubes.
Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Mix the liquid ingredients in a container. Then pour into the flour mixture and mix briefly to form a batter.
Fold in the apples, pour the batter into the prepared baking tin and smooth out.
Step 2: Bake the cake
Sprinkle the apple cake with slivered almonds and a little sugar to taste and bake at 356 °F (180 °C) for approx. 45-50 minutes until a skewer comes out clean. (If the cake gets too dark, cover with a piece of parchment paper). Then leave to cool and garnish with powdered sugar and pomegranate seeds, if desired.
Tips and Variations
- Variation with nuts: If you want the cake to be even nuttier, you can add chopped almonds, pecans, walnuts or hazelnuts to the batter.
- Gluten-free: Replace the wheat flour or spelt flour with gluten-free alternatives.
- Extra crunch: Sprinkle a few extra oats, nuts or crumbles on the apple oatmeal cake before baking.
- Apple varieties: Use tart apple varieties such as Boskoop or Elstar, as these give the cake a pleasant freshness.
Why Apple Cake is perfect for any season
An apple cake always works, whether it’s spring, summer, fall or winter! In the cold season, it warms you up from the inside and goes perfectly with a cup of tea or coffee. In summer, you can serve it with a scoop of vegan vanilla ice cream. The apples used not only provide a natural sweetness, but are also rich in vitamins and antioxidants that are good for your body.
How can I store the cake?
You can keep the apple otmeal cake covered at room temperature for up to 2 days. It will keep in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 5 days. For a longer shelf life, the cake can also be frozen in portions to keep it fresh for up to 3 months. Simply defrost and reheat briefly before eating.
This Apple Oatmeal Cake Recipe is:
- Vegan
- Egg-free, butter-free, dairy-free
- With oil (without margarine)
- Moist
- Very delicious
- Easy to make
- Super quick
- With just a few ingredients
- Foolproof
- Perfect with tea or coffee!
More Apple Recipes
- Vegan Apple Pie
- Apple Cake with Cinnamon Streusel
- Apple Custard Cake
- German Apple Cake
- Chocolate Apple Crumble Cake
- Invisible Apple Cake
- Apple Carrot Muffins
- Apple Crumble
- Mini Apple Pies
- Apple Turnovers
- One Bowl Apple Cake
- Apple Blondies
- Apple Hand Pies
- Frangipane Apple Tart
Recipe Video
If you try this homemade vegan apple cake with oats, please leave me a comment and a star rating! And if you take a photo of your cake and share it on Instagram or Facebook, please tag me @biancazapatka and use the hashtag #biancazapatka because I love seeing your remakes! Have fun baking! 🙂
Vegan Apple Cake (easy & healthy)
Author:Ingredients
- 14 oz (400 g) apples peeled & diced
- 1 ½ cup (180 g) flour all-purpose, spelt or gluten-free flour
- 1 cup (80 g) quick oats
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ cup (100 g) sugar type of your choice or mixed
- ½ cup (120 g) plant milk e.g. soy milk
- ½ cup (120 g) applesauce or another egg substitute
- ⅓ cup (80 g) oil e.g. butter-flavored canola oil or sunflower oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract or seeds from a vanilla pod
Topping (optional)
- 4 tbsp slivered almonds
- powdered sugar
- pomegranate seeds
Instructions
*Note: Check out the recipe video and step-by-step pictures in the blog post above!
- Preheat the oven to 356 °F (180 °C). Grease the sides of a 8“ (20 cm) round baking tin and line the base with parchment paper.
- Peel and core the apples, cut into small cubes and set aside.
- Combine the flour, rolled oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and sugar in a large bowl.
- Mix the plant milk, applesauce, oil and vanilla extract in a container. Then pour into the flour mixture and stir briefly to form a thick batter. Fold in the apples, pour the batter into the prepared baking tin and smooth out. Sprinkle with slivered almonds and a little sugar if desired and bake the cake for approx. 50 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. (If the cake gets too dark, cover with a piece of parchment paper).
- Allow to cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Then carefully remove and leave to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Garnish with powdered sugar and pomegranate seeds, if desired. Enjoy!
Notes
- Fruit: You can also use other fruit such as pears, plums, apricots or cherries.
- Helpful tips and further information on the recipe, such as storage and freezing instructions, can be found in the blog post above!
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my daughter made it and it was delicious. Light and fluffy and tasty.
thanks bianca 💜
i made this cake and it is so tasty. 😋😋
Great. Thank you! 🙂
Awesome. Many thanks! 🙂