I was fortunate enough to link up with Savvy from the Savvy Soybean- an up and coming blogger who has amazing recipes and a personality to match!
Check out this awesome Vegan Jewish Apple Cake that is easy to make and impossible to resist! Ms. Savvy- take it away!
Vegan Jewish Apple Cake
Hey there! Savvy Soybean here, veggie food-lover and digester of all things yummy in NYC. I love baking vegan, so when dairy-free extraordinaire Lopez asked me to whip up my favorite recipe with 8th Continent Soy Milk, I knew just the thing.
You see, I’ve been a bit overzealous in my fruit purchases lately. Crates of tangerines, bunches of bananas, bogs of cranberries… I like to think it’s motivation. I also like to think I can eat it all. But 99% of the time I wait too long and end up with something even better: bananas mushy for banana bread, plums soft for muffins, and apples just a day too ripe for anything but Vegan Jewish Apple Cake.
That’s right, I just called vegan apple cake “Jewish.” My grandmother would patsch me over the head. Butter, bread, brisket: that’s Jewish cooking in a nutshell. But as Bob Dylan once sang, “the times, they are a-changin’,” and we need to smarten up about what we scarf down. I found this super healthy recipe on Vegan Verve, an animal rights blog, and toyed with it to my liking. I pulled back the sugar, cut the cinnamon in half (a little goes a long way) and, of course, used the delicious 8th Continent Soy Milk as my dairy-free alternative.
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp flax meal
- 6 Tbsp water
- 3 medium red apples
- 1 1/3 cup sugar (I use the raw stuff)
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- ¾ cup canola oil
- ¼ cup 8th Continent Soy Milk
- 2 Tbsp vanilla
- 2 Tbsp cinnamon
- 2 cups unbleached flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F.
Whisk together flax meal and water. This’ll act as our nutritionally packed egg substitute.
Combine flax mixture, applesauce, soy milk, sugar, oil, and vanilla.
In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients: cinnamon, flour, and baking powder.
Peel and slice 3 medium sweet apples. Slicing them now will save you from preserving them in lemon juice to prevent from browning, but that’s also an option if you’d like to get it out of the way first.
Combine wet and dry ingredients. Add the apple slices. Mix until the apple slices are evenly distributed.
Pour mixture into a generously greased loaf/ bundt/ cake pan and place in preheated oven.
Cooking time varies depending on the depth of your pan. I baked mine in a deep oven-safe casserole dish, so the baking time was 1 hr 10 min. Check at about 40 minutes and do that toothpick test. This recipe generally takes 50 minutes to bake, and approximately 3 minutes to eat.
The two beneficiaries of my baking, my roommate and boyfriend, exclaimed the highest praise I could receive: “It doesn’t taste vegan!” They loved the moist, cinnamon-y cake and chunks of warm apple. They were also delighted to hear the recipe wasn’t all that unhealthy. And you know what? If my Jewish grandma had a bite, she’d go mashugana… in a good way.
About Ms. Savvy and The Savvy Soybean
Savvy moved to New York in the summer of 2007 and she, just like most new New Yorkers was intimidated by the Big City.
In the winter of 2007, Savvy decided to take the plunge into vegetarianism. Her blog is a wit-filled fun-loving site about places you can eat veggie in the Big City- without going broke! She also posts some amazing recipes like the one above. Check her out! The Savvy Soybean has been one of my favorite blogs I have come across to date!
And as you all know- you can keep in touch with me, Lopez and 8th Continent Soymilk on Twitter and Facebook as well!
Happy eating you beautiful people you.
*Jeff- call me!*