Sweet Craving.

I know this is not wheat free, BUT it makes up for it by being super healthy (anything with this many apples in it is healthy!) and amazingly delicious.

I have quite a bit of time to myself this weekend, and the apartment to myself. With constant sweet craving, I decided to do some baking, with basic ingredients I can find around the house. Now, I have used the recipe from Smitten Kitchen before (chocolate wafers, featured here) and I liked it, so I gave another one of her recipe a try, this time with Mom’s apple cake.

What I changed here is that I halved the recipe since I didn’t have enough flour, substituted vegetable oil with olive oil, and orange juice with apple juice, just because that’s all we had. And I didn’t use any nuts, just because. I also added a splash of rum for that extra kick. Oh and I used a normal cake pan since we didn’t have anything fancy.

The finished product, which smelt soooo goooooood! The cake came out dense with crispy crust, but slightly gooey yet crunchy with the apple, which is such a good balance. Just the right amount of sweetness, with a hint of sourness with the apple, it’s the kind of sweetness that doesn’t sicken you even after a while. Almost a guilt free kind of delicacy.

The only problem for me though, is that it didn’t come out pretty, which is why this picture is a close up. When I baked it, I sandwiched the apple chunks in the middle which I guess couldn’t hold the cake together in one piece? So when I flipped it the cake pan, my cake gracefully (not) split in half. I don’t know if it was because I used too many apples (I used 4 instead of 3), or I chopped them too big, or because they weren’t spread out enough in the batter.. Good thing it’s all for me, because I wouldn’t serve that to anyone, however delicious they were.

I made this Saturday I think, and I have been eating it for three days straight, and I want to make another batch – it was that good. And they’re still good overnight (or apparently better overnight)! I will definitely be making this again.