Healthy Applesauce Snack Cake
Fall is in the air with this yummy and healthy applesauce snack cake. You won’t even believe it’s gluten-free and sweetened naturally with maple syrup. It’s a real treat!
You can serve it for dust it with confectioners sugar which is what I like to do. I use Swerve confectioners sugar. You could also add a yummy frosting on top if you’d like or serve with a scoop of ice cream. It even makes a good breakfast cake too. Who doesn’t love cake for breakfast, right?
Whether you enjoy for breakfast or dessert you will certainly love this cake as much as my family and I do. It’s definitely a fall treat but I make this year round but there is just something about making this in the fall. Once in a while I’ll sauté some diced apples in cinnamon and serve it on top. Trust me, it’s so good!
My family loves when I make “snack cake”. The reason I call it snack cake is everyone snacks on it and I don’t add any frosting. Believe it or not my teenage twins don’t really like frosting so I never add it.
If you’re looking for some healthy fall recipes you’ll want to add this one to the list and if you try it please let me know!
Watch Here
Watch how I whip up this yummy cake in this video!
Healthy Applesauce Snack Cake
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon avocado or coconut oil*
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Swerve confectioners sugar for serving, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Spray a 8×8 baking dish with baking spray.
- Add oats to a food processor or blender and pulse until you get the consistency of oat flour. You can pulse it less if you like a little more texture. Alternatively you can use pre-ground oat flour like Bob’s Red Mill.
- Add oats to a medium mixing bowl along with baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and mix together.
- Make a well in the center of dry mixture and add in applesauce, maple syrup, eggs, oil and vanilla.
- Mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients until combined.
- Pour into prepared baking dish.
- Bake for about 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Set aside to cool.
- Dust with confectioners sugar before serving if desired.
Notes
*I use Chosen Avocado Oil. Coconut oil also works but will give a slight hint of coconut.
