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Do you feel like having Grandma's apple cake with pudding and streusel again? With this recipe, you can easily make it yourself.
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Zubereitung
Prepare the dough for the apple cake with pudding:
a. Line a 24 cm springform pan with baking paper.
b. Mix all ingredients for the base of your apple cake with pudding except the butter. Then add the cold (!) butter and knead the mixture until you get a shortcrust pastry. Knead the dough as briefly as possible so it doesn't get too warm.
c. Put the dough into the baking pan and press it with your hands into a base with 4-5 cm edges. If that doesn't work well, you can chill the dough again first. Very important: press the dough firmly!
d. Prick holes in the base with a fork and place the baking pan in the fridge for now while we prepare the rest.
Preparation of the apple filling:
a. Wash, peel, and core the apples and cut them into about 1 cm cubes.
b. Put the apple pieces with lemon juice, applesauce, sugar, and cinnamon into a large bowl and mix well. Cover the bowl and set aside.
Now it's time for the pudding:
a. Heat 400 ml of milk in a pot over low to medium heat – remember to stir occasionally.
b. While the milk heats up, you can mix the remaining 100 ml of milk with the cornstarch, sugar, vanilla extract, a pinch of salt, and optionally a pinch of turmeric until there are no lumps left.
c. Once the milk is hot and steaming, whisk in the cornstarch mixture vigorously.
d. Let your pudding heat up again while stirring until it boils briefly and thickens.
e. Remove it from the heat now and cover with cling film to prevent a skin from forming, then let it cool for a few minutes.
Now the topping:
For your topping, simply mix all the ingredients together – heat the coconut oil briefly beforehand to make it liquid.
Once the cake is done and the topping is golden brown, you can take it out of the oven and let it cool in the pan on a rack. Very important: Do not remove the cake from the pan too early, otherwise the pudding might leak or crack.
Recipe Note
If you need more tips & tricks for the apple cake, you can find everything important here:
Which apple variety for apple cake with pudding?
Do you still think that apple is just apple? That's not quite true. There are estimated to be over 30,000 apple varieties, and they differ in taste, baking properties & Co.
For our apple pudding cake, sweet and sour apples that are not too watery and do not fall apart when baking are suitable.
Our top 5 apples for an apple cake:
- Boskoop (this is the classic and available in most supermarkets)
- Elstar
- Jonagold
- Cox Orange
- Braeburn
If you have an apple tree in your garden, of course, you can also gladly use those apples for it.
Grandma's apple cake with vanilla pudding and crumbles
The days are getting cooler, the sunlight bathes everything in a warm orange, and the first leaves are already changing color. Autumn is coming, and it's finally time again for a juicy apple cake with crumbles and pudding.
Okay, admittedly, this recipe for an apple cake with pudding tastes great in all other seasons too.
This simple apple cake reminds us of the delicious cakes grandma used to bake. That's why we adopted some things from grandma's recipe – like the generous use of sugar and fat – but we adjusted other things. Our quick apple cake with shortcrust pastry is completely vegan, and sometimes we try to swap a few small things to keep the nutritional values within an acceptable range. But honestly, sometimes those are secondary. And with this best apple cake with vanilla pudding, we're happy to turn a blind eye.
Oh, by the way, your grandma can probably lend you the springform pan needed for our quick apple cake with pudding if you don't have your own. Of course, only in exchange for a piece of your delicious cake.
The tastiest crumbles in the world
If you don't want an oat-nut mix on your cake but prefer "real" crumbles, here is the recipe for the world's best crumbles (Warning: sugar shock guaranteed):
Simply knead together 250 g flour, 125 g sugar, 125 g vegan butter or margarine, and 1 packet of vanilla sugar roughly. It doesn't have to be perfectly kneaded. Shape your crumble dough into a ball and gently press it over your cake so the crumbs break off. Continue like this until your dough is used up and your cake is covered with delicious crumbs.
Substitution table
How often do we want to bake a recipe again, but we are missing certain ingredients or we don't like some components. For this case, we have a substitution table for you here so you can adjust the apple cake recipe with pudding exactly how you like it! Simply swap out individual ingredients as you wish!
- Flour → oat flour, gluten-free flours
- Coconut blossom sugar in dough → applesauce (careful, should not be too wet), other sugar
- Applesauce → other fruit purees
- Vanilla extract → fresh vanilla seeds, vanilla sugar
- Vegan butter → margarine, animal butter
- Lemon juice → lime juice, apple juice
- Cinnamon → omit or use other spices like cardamom
- Vanilla soy drink → other vanilla-flavored milk alternatives or neutral milk alternative plus vanilla extract & sweetness
- Coconut blossom sugar in pudding → other types of sugar
- Oats → other cereal flakes
- Coconut oil → other neutral oils or nut butter
- Nuts → simply more oats
Our apple pie is vegan, but of course you can also use animal-based ingredients if you want! If you pay attention to the nutritional values of the apple pie with pudding, you can also adjust the amount of sugar.
