Healthy Applesauce Cake (Gluten Free, Low Sugar)

This healthy applesauce cake is made with cassava flour and lightly sweetened with honey. It has a dense, moist texture and is completely gluten free, dairy free and nut free!

When it comes to cake, the most important thing to me is texture. The cake must be moist, not dry or too airy.

This healthy applesauce cake is just that. It's moist and dense, not too sweet and topped with a simple dairy free frosting. It has a lovely cinnamon apple flavor and is lightly sweetened with honey.

This paleo applesauce cake is healthy enough for breakfast, but tasty enough for dessert. You can't go wrong!

Why You'll Love this Healthy Applesauce Cake

There are so many great qualities about this applesauce cake recipe:

• paleo friendly - made with real, whole food ingredients that are minimally processed
• gluten free and grain free - this applesauce cake is made without wheat flour, and instead uses a combination of cassava and coconut flour
• nut free - great for anyone with nut allergies
• dairy free - this applesauce cake is made without butter or milk
• lower in sugar than your average cake recipe

Ingredients

Here's what you need to make this gluten free applesauce cake:

• cassava flour
• coconut flour
• baking powder
• baking soda
• salt
• cinnamon
• ginger (optional)
• unsweetened applesauce
• eggs
• palm shortening (or butter)
• honey (or maple syrup)
• vanilla

To make this applesauce snack cake paleo and nut free, I used a combination of cassava flour and coconut flour. Together, they create a dense cake with a moist crumb texture. No other flours have been tested for this recipe.

How to Make a Healthy Applesauce Cake

This applesauce cake is made in either an 8x8 inch square pan or 11x7 in pan. I used my 11x7 inch ceramic pan.

First, preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Grease the baking pan with shortening or butter and set aside.

In a medium sized mixing bowl whisk together the dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients. Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and mix until well combined.

Let the batter sit for a couple minutes to thicken (it will be quite thick - more so than a typical cake batter). Pour the batter into the greased baking dish and spread into an even, level layer so that the cake batter touches the edges of the pan.

Place the cake in your preheated oven and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until cooked through (toothpick comes out clean).

After baking, let the cake cool in the pan to room temperature.

Applesauce Cake Frosting

Frosting is optional, but adds to the flavor and compliments the applesauce cake's texture. You can frost the cake in the baking dish or remove it and place the cake on a serving platter.

This applesauce cake recipe tastes great with many different frostings. I used a homemade honey-vanilla frosting made with palm shortening, honey, tapioca starch and vanilla extract.

Your favorite vanilla or cream cheese frosting would also be great alternatives. Or, for a simple paleo frosting, top with coconut cream or coconut butter. Even a dollop of yogurt and honey would pair perfectly.

Storage

This cake is best kept in the fridge. Either store the cake in the baking dish and cover with plastic wrap or bees wax wrap, or place it in a sealed, air-tight container and keep in the fridge for up to one week.

More Recipes using Applesauce

• healthy applesauce donuts
• chocolate chip applesauce cookies
• paleo cinnamon apple pancakes

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