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Apple Almond Cake with Spelt Flour

A simple apple cake made with spelt flour and ground almonds, with scored apple quarters, cinnamon and flaked almonds.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings: 12 pieces
Course: Dessert
Ingredients Equipment Instructions Notes

Ingredients
  

For the dough
  • 100 g almonds ground
  • 250 g spelt flour
  • 80 g brown sugar cane sugar
  • 1 sachet vanilla sugar approx. 8 g
  • 1 sachet baking powder cream of tartar baking powder, approx. 16 g
  • 200 ml lactose-free milk a little more if needed
For the topping
  • 500 g apples approx. 3–4
  • 1 tsp brown sugar
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • 4 tbsp flaked almonds approx. 25 g

Equipment

  • 1 springform tin 26 cm diameter
  • 1 mixing bowl

Instructions
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 200 °C (conventional, top and bottom heat). Grease the tin.
  2. Mix the ground almonds, spelt flour, brown sugar, vanilla sugar and baking powder well in a bowl.
  3. Add the milk and stir to a smooth batter. If it is very firm, add a little more milk.
  4. Pour the batter into the tin and smooth the top.
  5. Peel, quarter and core the apples. Score the rounded side of each quarter lengthways several times without cutting all the way through.
  6. Arrange the apple quarters on the batter, rounded side up. Sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and flaked almonds.
  7. Bake for 40–50 minutes, until the apples are soft and a skewer comes out clean. Cover loosely towards the end if needed.

Notes

The nutritional values are rough estimates for 1 of 12 pieces.