Apple Oatmeal Cake * RECIPE | Healthy, Gluten free

Hey everybody,
New dessert recipe for this week, another one that's completely gluten free. It's a very versatile and yummy recipe that is definitely one of the healthier options out there if you're craving something sweet and fruity. So here are the ingredients:

600 g of apples
250 g of oats (gluten free)
250 g of cottage cheese
100 g of honey (substitute with stevia or maple syrup)
200 ml of water
60 g of coconut oil
30 g of shredded unsweetened coconut
2 tbsp of coconut sugar
1 packet of baking powder
2 tsp of cinnamon
1 tsp of allspice
little bit of butter to grease up the mould

Start of by preheating your oven to 200 °C (400 °F). Then you can move on and start to make the oat flour. If you already have oat flour at hand you can use that but I think that making your own is much cheaper. Put all of the oats into your blender and blend until you obtain a powdery consistency, it's normal that you see little parts of oatmeal that haven't been grounded but that's totally normal and it's not going to affect this recipe.

Then to your oat flour you're going to mix the honey, baking powder and the coconut oil and start to form a dough with your hands. While you're trying to mix up your dough mixture or crust mixture whatever you want to call it you're going to keep adding water until you're happy with the desired consistency, if you accidentally overdo it just add a little bit more of oats and you'll be okay. One tip is to use warm water because that's going to help the coconut oil to dissolve a little more easily.

Next step is to divide the mixture, you'll want to set aside 1/4 of the mixture that you're going to use later. The rest is going to be used for the crust or the foundation of your cake. Choose your mould I used a bread loaf mould but you can also use a square mould that's 20x20 cm as well. Basically use whatever you want but make sure to adjust the proportions of the recipe according to that. Now you're going to grease up your mould put a little bit of coconut on the sides and then press the dough into the mould with your fingers.

Now you're going to prepare the yummy apple filling start by grating all of the apples, I decide not to peel them but if you don't like apple peels in cakes go ahead and peel them but be aware that apple peels are very nutritious :)

Continue then by adding the cinnamon and allspice to the apples, also if your apples are a little bit tart you can put some honey in them, in the original recipe they divided the 100 g of honey between the crust mixture and the apples that's what I ended up doing as well I've put 50 g into the crust and 50 g into the apples.

When you're happy with the taste of your apples just layer them over the dough that you laid down previously.

Now it's time to use the filling that you have put aside previously, you'll want to mix the cottage cheese with the rest of the mixture and add some coconut sugar as well.

Then just crumble it on top of your cake and Voilà your cake is ready for some baking.

Last step is just to put your cake into the oven for 25 - 30 minutes or until nice and golden.

That's it this yummy healthy cake is ready to be served and enjoyed by the whole family :) Great family recipe that you can make with your kids I'm sure they're going to love mixing up all of the ingredients with you in the kitchen.