Gluten Free Apple Upside-Down Cake

This time of year, I find myself craving everything apple! But I also want zucchini bread, carrot cake, anything with cranberries … so I decided to make a harvest gluten free apple cake with all this yumminess, and turn it on its head. Voilà! Gluten-Free Apple Upside-Down Cake!

I baked this upside-down cake in individual ramekins to highlight the apple rings on top, and because with fruit cakes like this, it can sometimes be hard to get the middles of larger cakes to bake all the way through. With all the vegetables and fruit baked in, these are very moist cakes, so the smaller format helps encourage the cake to fully cook.

Plus, they’re so darned cute as little cakes! Ok, ok, plus portion control.

We all love zucchini bread, carrot cake, apple bread … so why not put it all together? This upside-down apple cake recipe does just that, deliciously!

Loads of veggies and fruit packed all in one cake makes the crumb on this cake totally unique and bursting with flavor. But just looking at it, no one would ever know you snuck veggies into these treats!

Embrace the harvest! And bake an upside-down cake all at the same time!

Happy Harvest!

Gluten Free Apple Upside-Down Cake

This delectable gluten free apple upside down cake takes all the best of the harvest and bakes them into a cake!

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Course: Desserts

Cuisine: Dessert

Keyword: apple cake, cake, ramekin, upside-down cake

Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes minutes

Servings: 8 ramekins

Calories: 501kcal

Author: Jules Shepard

Equipment

1 gfJules All Purpose Gluten Free Flour

Ingredients

  

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Cake

• 1 cup brown or coconut palm sugar
• 1/4 cup vegetable or coconut oil
• 1/2 cup apple butter or apple sauce
• 3 eggs or substitute
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 2 (270) cups (grams) gfJules™ All Purpose Gluten Free Flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 2 cups grated carrots
• 1 cup grated zucchini squash, pressed/drained
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup chopped cranberries
• 1/2 cup finely chopped peeled apple

Topping 

• 8 thinly sliced apple rings
• 1/4 cup whole cranberries
• 1/2 (68) cup (grams) gfJules™ All Purpose Gluten Free Flour
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)
• 1/4 cup brown or coconut palm sugar
• 3 Tbs. melted butter or non-dairy alternative

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350° F.
• Whip together sugar, oil and apple butter. Add eggs and vanilla, beating until fully integrated. Stir in gfJules™ Flour and baking soda.
• Grate carrots and zucchini using a fine shredding disc in a food processor. Press between paper towels to remove excess liquid.
• Chop pecans and cranberries, then peel and dice the apple. Stir those ingredients into the batter until evenly distributed.
• Oil 8 four-inch ramekins. Place one apple ring in the bottom of the ramekin and 1 or 2 whole cranberries in the center.
• In a small bowl, stir together gfJules Flour, pecans, sugar and melted butter with a fork. Sprinkle topping onto the apple rings, then spoon batter into ramekins, filling 2/3 full.
• Bake for 30 minutes, more or less, depending on the size of your ramekins. Test with a toothpick inserted into the center of each ramekin — when it comes out clean, the cakes are done.
• Cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack, then invert to remove from ramekins before serving.

Nutrition Facts

Gluten Free Apple Upside-Down Cake

Serving Size

 

1

Amount per Serving

Calories

501

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

23

g

35

%

Saturated Fat

 

10

g

63

%

Trans Fat

 

0.2

g

Polyunsaturated Fat

 

4

g

Monounsaturated Fat

 

8

g

Cholesterol

 

73

mg

24

%

Sodium

 

335

mg

15

%

Potassium

 

386

mg

11

%

Carbohydrates

 

73

g

24

%

Fiber

 

5

g

21

%

Sugar

 

26

g

29

%

Protein

 

5

g

10

%

Vitamin A

 

5619

IU

112

%

Vitamin C

 

7

mg

8

%

Calcium

 

49

mg

5

%

Iron

 

1

mg

6

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

** Please keep in mind that nutrition information provided is per serving, which may vary. While we have taken care to provide you with the most accurate nutritional values possible, please note that this information may differ significantly depending on the exact ingredients and brands that you choose to use to make this recipe. Additionally, where options are given for ingredients, the resulting calculation may include all ingredient options instead of only one per line, skewing the totals significantly.

I hope you love this harvest cake!

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