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.
Tamra says
Can’t wait to make this. Your cookbook is my goto birthday/thank you/wedding/whatever gift since I discovered it. I love the simplicity of it. And the results from the recipes!
Elana says
Tamra, thanks for letting me know that my cookbook is your goto!
Jude McIntyre says
This looks divine. I am going to give this a go in my Thermomix. Thanks for the recipe.
Elana says
You’re welcome Jude!
Jessica Crosby says
This sounds great. Can’t wait to make it for Thanksgiving. -Jessica
Elana says
Thanks Jessica!
Cassi Friz says
i love baking with almond butter! with Trader Joe’s around here, it’s so affordable and easy! and this stayed up on my computer screen from when i received it until just now. i think the whipped cream was calling my name….
thanks for the delicious dessert treat that satisfies our apple cinnamon cravings for this chilly but delicious season….
so looking forward to the eggnog recipe that is coming up in the holidays- saw some at the store the other day and will be looking it up soon… coco-nog i’m sure!
blessings and peace-
Elana says
Cassi, thanks for your comment! Here’s a link to that Egg Nog recipe:
https://elanaspantry.com/eggnog/
Enjoy!
Elana
Melanie Giant says
That is so indulging! I love the icing on the top. It seems to looks like perfect. I do icing too but it is more in a wet look and it is easy to melt. I think I should practice more my frostings.
Elana says
Thanks Melanie!
marla {family fresh cooking} says
This cake looks wonderful- -love all that almond butter and & cinnamon!
Elana says
Thanks Marla!
Kindle Spiegel says
Elana…thank you so much for all of your time and effort that you so graciously offer to all. Your recipes have really been a blessing to me since I have trouble with grains, dairy, and sugar. It has been so nice trying so many of your recipes, many of which my family likes also, and feeling “normal” again. The links you provide have also been so helpful and it is great to find sites where ingredients are much cheaper (and available) than what I find at the stores. Thank you so very, very much! Your caring has blessed so many!
Elana says
Kindle, you are such a dear! Thanks for your wonderful comment, I’m so happy to support you and all of my readers in their healthy cooking adventures :-)
Jennifer K Hunter says
Looks like another wonderful Autumn treat!
Elana says
Thanks Jennifer!
Fiona Elliott says
Hi Elana,
Just baked this cake this evening and I was very impressed, it was whipped up in a flash. It def needed the cream, i used a dollop organic sour cream..very yum. Will def make again…love that its grainfree and high in protein…great for nutritional type.
Cheers Fee
Elana says
Fiona, I’m so glad to hear you whipped this up in a flash and that you were impressed with it!
Hannah Marcotti says
Yummy and so timely!
Elana says
Thanks Hannah!