Dutch Apple Cake
Recipe from my Grandmother, this is a simple 7 ingredient cake, topped with fresh crisp apples, a dash of cinnamon and sugar and baked to perfection. The beauty of this cake is that it isn't sweet and highlights the fruit of the season. Perfect for breakfast or dessert!
Servings: 8 -10 servings
Ingredients
- 1½ cups gluten-free flour with xanthan gum I use GF Jules - affiliate link
- 1¾ teaspoons gluten-free baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons + 1½ teaspoons sugar
- ⅓ cup butter or dairy free butter, room temperature, cut into pieces
- ⅓ cup milk
- 1 egg
- Cinnamon & sugar for sprinkling we used a mix of 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon, but didn't need it all
- 3-5 apples (depending on size), peeled and sliced into approximately 1/4 inch slices
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F, and lightly grease a 9 or 10 inch pie pan or ½ sized rimmed baking sheet.
- In a large bowl add dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt, sugar) and combine with a fork or pastry cutter.
- Add eggs & milk into the flour mixture and mix to combine. Add butter one piece at a time and mix to combine. Batter will be stiff.
- NOTE: my grandmother who made this with regular flour (ie gluten) insisted that this dough must be mixed by hand or with a large spoon and that you do not want to over mix. The batter should be rather stiff and only pliable with your hands. I however do everything in a stand mixer and there is no gluten to over mix when baking with gluten-free flour. Feel free to make it either way.
- Drop batter onto prepared pie pan by spoonfuls, and gently press into the bottom and around the edges of the pan.
- Press sliced apples into the dough, pushing gently.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar
- Bake for 40 minutes, checking at 30 minutes and covering with foil if apples getting to crisp.
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I have a Dutch apple cake recipe that was my Oma‘s. I wanted to make a gluten-free version of it, so I looked for ingredients and measurements as close as possible to my original recipe. This was very close. My Oma‘s recipe is the same except: instead of just sprinkling cinnamon and sugar on top, melt 3 tablespoons of butter, 2 teaspoons of cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg with 3 tablespoons of sugar (I usually double this). Mix it well and then gently spoon/smear over the top of your apples before you put it in the oven. When out of the oven, combine 3 tablespoons of apricot jam with enough warm water to make it a little less “stiff” of a preserve (again, I use more) and spoon it over the hot cake. Divine!
Wow! The apricot jam on top sounds yummy! Thanks for sharing!
Can I substitute the sugar with coconut sugar?
I have never tried it but it should work… lmk if you try it
Yes, I did the recipe with coconut sugar and it worked just fine. Only that from what I observed also on other recepies, to give the proper sweetness, I add more coconut sugar than the description for normal sugar says. For instance here, I added 3.5 tablespoons coconut sugar and it was just perfect!
ever try this with vanilla or almond extract
I haven’t but I’m sure it would taste great! Let me know if you try it.
I am just learning about Gluten Free baking. I have a lot of Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Flour without Xanthan Gum. I found out from other recipes that I needed to add Xanthan Gum. So I now have a lot to that too. Ugh! I see that the ingredients in Bob’s Red Mill flour are slightly different than what is in the flour you recommend. Do you think this recipe will be okay with the Bob’s Red Mill and adding the Xanthan Gum to the flour? Thanks
yes! It should work fine! I’d just add a 1/4 teaspoon or so of xanthan gum. Enjoy!