Upside Down Apple and Jam Cake

by Collette White | Feb 28, 2017

Good Morning! I hope this finds you all well! Todays recipe is bought to you by my desire for Banana Bread every time I make it for the kids! (I am intolerant to Bananas) … so I decided to have a play around with swapping the banana for apple and was thrilled when it worked. My kids came home yesterday to it for afternoon tea and Master 6 ate two pieces … and when I wasn’t looking took a 3rd! When he saw me packing his school lunch box later that night, he asked me to fill it with the ‘apple bread’ … WINNING! (…and let me say, no I didn’t fill his lunch box with it!) I re-tested it again today just to check my measurements and couldn’t wait to get it on here for you to try. I hope you love it as much as my family does!

Ingredients

1 tblspn jam of choice

1 apple – cored and thinly sliced

400g stewed apples

3 eggs

1 cup brown rice flour (170g)

¼ cup coconut flour (30g)

1/8 cup honey (40g)

2 tspns fresh lemon juice or ACV

1 tspn baking powder

¼ tspn cinnamon

pinch salt

Method

Line a square 20cm x 20cm cake tin with baking paper.

Preheat oven to 180c.

Spread the jam evenly over the bottom of the baking paper (I used a wet pastry brush to make this easy). Layer the thinly sliced apples on top of the jam.

Place all the remaining ingredients into a food processor etc and blitz until creamy, smooth and thoroughly combined. You might need to scrape down the sides a few times during this process.

TMX: Speed 5 / 30 seconds. Scrape down sides, then a further 10 seconds on Speed 5.

Pour cake mixture into the prepared tin and bake in preheated oven for 35-40 minutes or until thoroughly cooked.

Allow to cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes before turning upside down onto a plate.

Enjoy!

Notes

You can turn this into an apple ‘bread’ (similar to a banana bread) by leaving out the bottom jam and sliced apple and pouring the mixture into a lined bread tin. You will need to increase the baking time to approx 50-60 minutes (depending on your oven). Even this square shape does have that slightly moist and dense texture of banana bread.
If you haven’t got apples to stew, you can buy tin ‘pie apples’ that is nothing but apples.
Once cool, I cut mine into squares and kept it in a container in the fridge.