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Apple Crumble Cake - Gluten Free and Dairy Free

IRISH APPLE CRUMB CAKE WITH A JAMESON CARAMEL SAUCE - Gluten & Dairy-Free

With or without the Jameson Caramel sauce, this apple crumb cake is simply delicious and a must try.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Gluten Free
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

Cake

  • 3 cups gluten-free flour blend
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons guar or xanthum gum if not already in flour blend
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 3 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup vegan butter 1 stick
  • 5 Granny Smith apples washed, peeled, cored and diced
  • 3 eggs room temperature (can use a flax-egg substitute)
  • 1/2 cup dairy-free milk
  • 3 teaspoons vanilla

Crumb Topping

  • 3/4 cup gluten-free flour blend
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar
  • 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 5 tablespoons vegan butter

Jameson Caramel Sauce

  • 1 cup dark brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons water
  • 1/4 cup Jameson whiskey
  • 1/2 cup coconut cream*
  • 2 tablespoons vegan butter

Instructions
 

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Preheat oven to 375° F
  • Prepare a tube or Bundt pan with by using some vegan butter along the sides, making sure to cover generously. Dust with flour. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, guar gum, and salt. Set aside.
  • In a medium bowl, mix together the sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Set aside.
  • Add butter to flour mixture but cutting in with a pasty cutter or using clean hands, mixing until a nice crumbly mixture appears.
  • Add the sugar mixture to the flour mixture and mix by hand until well combined.
  • In a small bowl, beat eggs for a few seconds, then add milk and vanilla.
  • Add wet ingredients to the dry mixture.
  • Mixing by hand with a large spoon, stir cake until well combined.
  • Add apples and stir a few more times until apples are incorporated, but do not over mix.
  • Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
  • Combine all the ingredients for the crumb topping in a medium bowl.
  • Top cake mixture with crumb topping.
  • Bake cake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a knife run through comes out clean.
  • While the cake is baking, start your Jameson Caramel Sauce
  • For sauce, in a medium saucepan, bring brown sugar and water to a slow simmer, stirring occasionally to melt sugar.
  • Reduce the heat to low, or turn heat off.
  • Add the whiskey and CAREFULLY ignite with a kitchen match or long nose lighter. * (CAUTION! The whiskey will ignite quickly.)
  • When flame dies out, stir in the coconut cream and vegan butter. Stirring to combine.
  • Keep sauce on low heat for a minute or two to combine.
  • Once sauce it done, turn off the heat and pour sauce into a heat safe dish.
  • When cake is done, place on a wire rack and allow to cool for 5 to 10 minutes in pan.
  • Carefully transfer cake back on to wire rack and allow to cool.
  • Transfer cake to large serving dish.
  • Drizzle sauce over entire cake or serve along side cake for drizzling over single pieces.

Notes

NOTES
*To make coconut cream-Allow a can of full-fat coconut milk to settle (about 1/2 hour). The coconut cream will rise to the top. Skip off the cream and use.
* Lighting the whiskey can be a bit scary. Honestly, I took my saucepan outside the first time and made sure my lighter had a very long nose to it. It worked great! Just be careful
Keyword apples, dairy-free, dessert, gluten-free, irish food