{"id":271,"date":"2011-01-01T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anjaschwerin.com\/food\/?p=271"},"modified":"2016-04-30T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T11:26:45","slug":"apple-quinoa-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anjaschwerin.com\/food\/01\/apple-quinoa-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Quinoa Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"
Happy New Year to all of you!<\/div>\n
\nI want to start this year’s blog with a dessert, because this is how I started 2011. With dessert.
\nAs far as I can remember (and things tend to get blurry after such a long time), I hadn’t been out in the evening for 3 (yes, three) years, since my little daughter was born. For New Year’s Eve, we were invited to the house of good friends. It felt good, really good to be out again after such a long time. We were treated to the most amazing food I have had in a long time. Joao and Carina, this one is for you:\u00a0 you really excelled yourselves. We had a a fabulous time. Only downside was that, after 3 years of absence, our party endurance wasn’t what it used to be.<\/div>\n
\nAs we were busy eating starters and entree until almost midnight, the hosts decided to serve dessert in the New Year. And what a great way to start the New Year: homemade ice creams, cakes, flans, …… I rolled home after that.
\nI want to make this my motto of the year: we all deserve dessert. Here is my first contribution, not as fancy as what I got spoiled with last night, but nevertheless a dessert that is in tune with the spirit of this blog: a delicious, healthy, vegan and nutritious treat that has a quirky ingredient: cooked quinoa. I tend to think that once you turn a dessert into a healthier food that is tasty at the same time, everything else will fall into place by itself.
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\nAPPLE QUINOA CAKE<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
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Inspired by\u00a0 <\/b>Diet Desserts And Dogs<\/a><\/div>\n
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(Print Recipe) <\/a><\/div>\n
\n3\/4 cup whole wheat flour<\/div>\n
1\/2 teaspoon baking powder<\/span><\/div>\n
1\/4 teaspoon baking soda<\/span><\/div>\n
1\/2 teaspoon ground ginger<\/span><\/div>\n
1\/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon<\/span><\/div>\n
1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/span><\/div>\n
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1 large apple, cored and coarsely grated<\/span><\/div>\n
1\/4 cup palm sugar<\/span><\/div>\n
1\/4 cup olive oil<\/span><\/div>\n
1 cup cooked quinoa (1\/3 cup uncooked quinoa)<\/span><\/div>\n
1 teaspoon vanilla extract<\/span><\/div>\n
3 tablespoons sunflower seeds<\/span><\/div>\n
1\/4 cup raisins<\/span><\/div>\n

\nCinnamon Oat Topping<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
1\/4 cup rolled oats<\/span><\/div>\n
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon<\/span><\/div>\n
1 tablespoon palm sugar<\/span><\/div>\n
1 tablespoon olive oil<\/span><\/div>\n
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Serves 8<\/span><\/div>\n

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\nPreheat oven to 180C\/350F. Grease or line a loaf tin with parchment paper.<\/p>\n

In a large bowl, sift together flour, palm sugar, baking powder, soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
\nIn a medium bowl, mix the grated apple, oil, quinoa, vanilla, sunflower seeds and raisins. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir until combined.<\/p>\n

Pour into prepared pan and smooth the top. Combine all ingredients for the topping and sprinkle them on top of the cake batter. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until cake tester comes out clean. Let cool before cutting into slices.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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