Easy Apple Upside Down Cake recipe made with fresh sweet apples, whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, jaggery, oil, lemon juice, ground spices and leavening ingredients. The recipe is also eggless and vegan.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 15 minutes
  • Cook time: 45 minutes
  • Total time: 60 minutes
  • Yield: 8 · 8 slices
  • Category: Desserts
  • Cuisine: World

Ingredients

  • 2 apples (medium-sized, rinsed, peeled, cored and sliced)
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons demerara sugar (or brown sugar or raw sugar)
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder ((ground cinnamon))
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg powder ((ground nutmeg))
  • few drops lemon juice
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ cup jaggery powder (- preferably organic, or brown sugar or raw sugar - adjust as per your sweet requirements)
  • 1 pinch salt
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder ((ground cinnamon))
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 cup water
  • ¼ cup sunflower oil (or any neutral tasting oil)
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla powder (or ½ teaspoon vanilla extract)

Method

Preparation

  1. Grease or line a 7 to 7.5 inches round cake pan or tin. You can even line the pan with parchment paper.
  2. Preheat the oven now at 180 degrees C/356 degrees F for 15 minutes.
  3. Rinse, peel, core and slice the apples.

Lining cake pan with apples

  1. Layer the apple slices neatly on the base of the cake pan/tin in single or double layer.
  2. Sprinkle cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder on the apple layer. Also sprinkle a few drops of lemon juice, so that the apples do not discolor. Sprinkling lemon juice is an optional step.
  3. Keep this cake pan/tin aside.

Making apple upside down cake

  1. In a bowl, take all the dry ingredients - whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, powdered jaggery, vanilla powder and cinnamon powder.
  2. Mix them well with a wired whisk. If using vanilla essence or extract then add it when adding lemon juice.
  3. Add the water and oil, stir and mix to get a lump-free batter. Do not over-mix.
  4. Now add the lemon juice and mix well again.
  5. Pour the batter all over on an even layer over the apple slices in the prepared cake pan/tin.
  6. Bake at 180 degrees C/356 degrees F for 45 to 55 minutes in the preheated oven.
  7. When cooled to room temperature, remove the cake gently. Serve the Eggless Apple Upside Down Cake with tea or coffee or as an after meal dessert.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.