Easy cake recipe! This vegan apple cinnamon cake is moist and fluffy even without butter. Try it when apples are in the season!
It's a dairy-free dessert that makes you happy with cinnamon's aroma and sweet and sour apples.
Simmer the apples over low heat, mix the ingredients and bake it! That's it!
So why don't you try this easy apple cinnamon cake for your afternoon snack or breakfast?
- This recipe is for you if:
- You love apples
- You want to make a apple cake
- You are looking for easy cake recipe
Let me walk you through the ingredients and how to make it with step by step instructions.
Let's get started!
About this recipe
- Simmer apple on low heat
- Baking time：50 minutes
- No egg nor dairy (Vegan recipe)
- An easy and simple recipe
📋 Ingredients
Here are the ingredients (amounts are in the recipe card below).
- Flour >> I use cake flour, but you can also use all-purpose flour or pastry flour (not bread flour).
- Baking powder >> I use aluminum-free baking powder.
- Sugar >> I use cane sugar as it contains more minerals than white sugar.
- Maple Syrup >> I use Canadian maple syrup.
- Soy milk >> I use unsweetened soy milk (no sugar or flavor added). You can also use your favorite milk, such as almond milk, oats milk.
- Oil >> I use taihaku sesame oil (no smell and no color), but you can use other oil that doesn't have a strong smell.
- Vanilla extract
- Cinnamon powder
- Apple
If you want to know more about the ingredients (also baking equipment), see this vegan matcha pound cake recipe for more details.
🔪Instructions
Well, now it's time to cook! You can also watch this video.
First of all, preheat an oven at 180C/356F.
- Cut apple：Cut an apple into small pieces.
- Make apple cinnamon: Put the apple, cinnamon powder, sugar, water in a pan and mix. Then cover and cook on low heat for 8 to 10 minutes until tender.
- Make apple cinnamon: Complete when the apples are tender like this.
- Put wet ingredients: Put soy milk, oil, maple syrup, vanilla extract into a bowl and mix.
- Add dry ingredients: Place a strainer on the bowl, add flour and baking powder. Then sift and mix them roughly.
- Add apple cinnamon: Add apple cinnamon to the bowl and mix.
- Place a parchment paper: You can see how to prepare a parchment paper in this post.
- Pour the dough: Pour the dough into the cake pan.
- Bake: Score the surface with a knife or skewer and bake for 35 to 40minutes at 180C/356F.
Take out from the pan, place it on a cooling rack and let it cool for some time.
Please wait until it cools down completely, then cut it into pieces and enjoy!
Storage
You can store at room temperature for about 3 days.
If it gets dry, warm it in the microwave for about 20 seconds, then it will get fluffy again.
For longer storage, you can freeze it. Wrap each piece in plastic wrap and store it in the freezer. It will last about one month.
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Vegan Apple Cinnamon Cake (Easy and Simple)
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 40
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 8 pieces 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: Japanese
- Diet: Vegan
Description
Easy cake recipe! This vegan apple cinnamon cake is moist and fluffy even without butter. Try it when apples are in the season!
Ingredients
Cake Dough
- A 50g Oil
- A 70g Maple syrup
- A 140g Soy milk
- A 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- B 200g Flour
- B 2 tsp Baking powder
Apple Cinnamon
- ½ Apple(cut into small pieces)
- 1 tsp Cinnamon powder
- 1 Tbsp Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Water
Instructions
- Preheat oven: Preheat oven at 180C/356F.
- Make apple cinnamon: Put all apple cinnamon ingredients in a pan, cover and cook on low heat for 8 to 10 minutes until tender.
- Put wet ingredients: Put A ingredients into a bowl and mix.
- Add dry ingredients: Place a strainer on the bowl, add B ingredients, sift, and mix them roughly.
- Add apple cinnamon: Add apple cinnamon to the bowl and mix.
- Pour the dough: Place parchment paper in a cake pan and pour the dough into it.
- Bake: Score the surface with a knife or skewer and bake for 35 to 40minutes at 180C/356F.
Notes
- The cake pan size is 18cm/7 inches.
- You can substitute soy milk with any milk you like.
- Ingredients: see the ingredients paragraph for more details (scrolling up).
Keywords: Vegan Apple Cinnamon Cake
Tessi
おいしい！
loved the subtle flavour, great with some ocha for breakfast or a tea party 💛
wished it would have risen more 🤔 but I guess that's the cook's fault rather than the recipe 😅 maybe I overmixed it? either way thanks for the recipe! 🥰
★★★★
Chef JA
Hi Tessi! I'm sorry it didn't rise...It happens to me sometimes too. I found that it happens when I use a little old baking powder. If I use a new one, then it raises no problem. So since then, I buy a small box of baking powder and use it all before rising power gets weak. I hope that helps! Thanks for your comment!
Grace
Hi Chef !
Can I substitute the maple syrup for sugar instead? If yes, would it be white or brown sugar? How many grams would that be?
Thank you!
JURI
Hi Grace, thanks for your comment! Yes, you can substitute maple syrup with sugar, and both white or brown sugar is ok. It's your preference. I would add 40g sugar for this recipe, but the sweetness is moderate, so if you love sweeter cake, you can add 50g or more. And it's better to change soy milk to 200g as you cut down on liquid ingredients. I hope it helps!
Grace
Thank you so much for the advice Chef 🙂
I am new to vegan baking.. may I find out whether margarine can be used as a substitute to vegan butter/oil?
Margarine is more easily available and usually cheaper than vegan butter. Same as how sugar is cheaper than maple syrup, but I understand maple is more nutritious and that's why recommended!
JURI
Please call me Juri:) Yes, margarine is cheap and easy to get because it's highly processed food. I suggest avoiding it as it contains trans fat, which is not good for your heart... You can use canola oil, avocado oil, olive oil instead. I like using raw sesame oil (taihaku oil) for baking, but it's not sold outside Japan. Anyway, I hope you can find an easy substitute!
Grace
Thank you so much Juri! 🙂 Have a good day and looking forward to more yummy goodness on your blog 🙂
JURI
You are very welcome! You have a good day too, Grace!^^