Apple Tea Cake with Chai Icing

This healthy gluten-free cake is full of dietary fibre and nutritional goodness. Apples are an excellent source of fibre that can lower high cholesterol and help promote cardiovascular health. Apples are also rich in important phytonutrients and protective antioxidants. If you’re using organic apples keep the skins on for an extra boost in fibre. Apple peels are also an excellent source of quercetin, which is a nutrient that has impressive antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
Serves: 6–8
GF, V
Ingredients
Method
- 2 cups blanched almond meal
- 2 heap tsp gluten-free baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup raw honey or 100 per cent maple syrup
- ¼ cup cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil or coconut oil
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 medium apples, finely diced
- Icing:
- 225g cream cheese
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
- 3 heap tbsp raw honey
- Heaped ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- Pinch ground ginger
- Pinch ground cardamom
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