Cinnamon Apple Cake is a fabulous fall dessert and super easy to make. This paleo cake recipe calls for 8 ingredients total. All you need to make it is apples, orange juice, almond butter, eggs, honey, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt. My boys adore it smothered in my classic Whipped Cream or Dairy-Free Coconut Whipped Cream.
Healing Properties of Cinnamon
This healthy flourless cake recipe is not overly sweet and brims with the aroma of warming cinnamon. I love cooking with cinnamon because it’s a healing super-spice. Cinnamon regulates blood sugar and is touted in Ayurveda as fixing numerous ailments, including calming down the vata dosha. My go-to spice, I often add cinnamon to my morning Protein Shake and Dandelion Coffee.
Cinnamon Apple Cake
Ingredients
- 1 apple, peeled, cored, and chopped
- 2 tablespoons orange juice, fresh squeezed
- 1 cup creamy roasted almond butter
- ¼ cup honey or agave nectar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
Instructions
- In a food processor pulse apple, orange juice, and almond butter until well blended
- Pulse in honey, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon (yes 2 tablespoons), and salt
- Pour batter into a greased 8 x 8 inch baking dish
- Bake at 350°F for 32 to 36 minutes
- Cool and serve with Whipped Cream Frosting
Low-Carb Cinnamon Apple Cake
This Paleo Cinnamon Apple Cake recipe was inspired by Andre Anna. Just a few of the changes I made include using apples instead of bananas, adding a ton of cinnamon, and reducing the amount of sweetener in order to make this a low-carb flourless cake. If you are cutting back on your intake of sweeteners you’ll want to check out my Low-Carb Diet page. If you have totally eliminated all sweeteners that can spike your blood glucose you’ll want to take a look at my Ketogenic Diet page.
Healthy Apple Recipes
Love my paleo Cinnamon Apple Cake recipe? Here are some more low-carb apple dessert recipes for you!
This post is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first published this recipe in 2010.
cindy drozda says
I just made this with pumpkin instead of apple, no orange juice (didn’t have any)(substituted milk), sunflower butter instead of almond, and added some coconut cream. Great!! A nice treat, just the right sweetness. Thanks, Elana and AndreAnna, for sharing this recipe!
Elana says
Cindy, you’re welcome! Glad to hear this was a nice treat :-)
Melissa B. says
Elana-
My fiance’s birthday was on Friday, and I offered to make him anything he wanted for dinner. Every single thing he requested was one of your recipes! Here is the menu he chose: mustard lime chicken, roasted broccoli, jelly-donut cupcakes with your peanut butter icing! Of course, I love all of your recipes because I don’t eat gluten, dairy, sugar, or soy, but he can eat anything he wants (and does) and loves all of your creations that I make.
Thank you so much for providing us with such delicious, nourishing, and simple recipes- you are a true inspiration and cooking genius!
Elana says
Melissa, I’m so happy that I was part of your boyfriend’s birthday dinner with my recipes!
Meghan Telpner says
Looks amazing! :)
Elana says
Thanks Meghan!
Laura C says
Thank you Elana!!!
We only just discovered your book and I am working my way through each and every recipe! We used a 5 lb bag of almond flour in just one week! We were already gluten free but needed to go on a much healthier purely organic, low sugar diet due to serious health issues. Your book has given me a solution to successfully replace the kids existing high-sugar GF items. Taking away without having a replacement would have made this impossible! You are a life saver – and in this case I mean it literally.
Having fun cooking!
Elana says
Laura, I’m so happy to support your family’s change to healthy eating! Thanks for your wonderful words. It sure is nice to be called a life saver :-)
Ali says
Wow, that just looks irresistibly delicious! I love how nutrient dense it is too – would make a great, quick breakfast paired with a green smoothie! Can’t wait to try it. :)
Elana says
Ali, yes my boys love having this cake with eggs for breakfast :-)
the blissful baker says
this cake looks simple and delicious! i love that it requires so few ingredients.
Elana says
Simple and easy is the name of the game here :-)
gfe-gluten free easily says
Love it, Elana! Absolutely my kind of recipe … as soon as I get some almond butter I’ll make this. Or I might make some more pecan butter and use that, so I don’t have to wait as long. Sadly, my basic grocery store does not have almond butter or even raw almonds.
xoxo,
Shirley
Elana says
Thanks Shirley!
Jamie says
Wow…another amazing recipe!
Question for you; I am allergic to oranges. Do you think it would work with apple juice??
Cathy says
I subbed apple/pear sauce last night (it’s what I had open in the fridge) and the cake turned out lovely! Be brave.
Meagan says
AH! I was just thinking about something like this today. I love apples and cinnamon. I would make this with butter. What a great combination!!
Lori says
Instead of the almond butter ? Does that sub equal parts??
Jac says
elena, you are a baking wizard! a flourless apple cake?! wow you just won my heart. :)
Elana says
Thanks Jac!