Applesauce Loaf - Grain and Sugar Free

Applesauce Loaf 

Paleo

Grain-free/Gluten Free/Sugarless

My Little Blue Heron

I published this recipe nine years ago. The link will take you to the recipe made with wheat flour. Since, I’ve adapted it twice: for gluten-free baking and for paleo baking. This one's the paleo version.

You’ll need to put my All-purpose paleo flour together. Here’s the link.

This cake's a snap to make, and the recipe's great for paleo diets because it has no added sugar. It’s easy to digest, packs nutrition, and it’s simply delicious. Use unsweetened applesauce. I try to use homemade, but it’s perfectly okay to use jarred.

I’ve substituted other dried fruit, but my favorite is dried cherries. Dried cherries almost always contain added sugar. However, Trader Joe’s Unsulfured Dark Sweet Cherries have nothing more than fruit. Ma Cherry Joe-more.

I advise you don't add chopped nuts to the paleo version of this recipe. This will add to the oil content. The almond flour is plenty. I've reduced the Canola oil amount to accommodate the oil content in the flour.

So, put this together (it takes like 10 minutes).

How can you turn your nose up at any loaf… it’s LOAF!

peace and loaf,

jane

Grain Free Applesauce Loaf

Equipment:

8x4 loaf pan, brushed well with melted coconut or palm oil (or lined with parchment paper)

Ingredients:

1 ½ c. unswseetened applesauce

75 ml. flavorless oil (Canola)

1 egg, size large, room temperature

1 tsp. pure vanilla extract, or ¼ tsp. (1 g.) vanilla powder

204 g. all-purpose paleo flour

1 g. kosher salt

9 g. baking powder (gluten and aluminum-free)

3 g. baking soda

2 g. ground cinnamon

½ tsp. freshly ground nutmeg

85 g. dried cherries, cut or chopped, medium

Procedure:

Preheat oven to 325º F.

In a large bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg. Whisk together until well-mixed.

Beat the egg.

In a medium bowl (or in a large enough measuring cup), combine applesauce, oil and beaten egg.

By hand, add wet ingredients to the dry and mix (don’t beat, just mix) until completely combined.

Add dried cherries and stir until incorporated.

Transfer to prepared loaf pan and bake in the middle of the oven for about 50 minutes, or until tester comes out dry.

Transfer to a cooling rack, and after 10 minutes, or when you can manage the loaf comfortably, release from pan (if you’ve lined it with parchment, simply lift it from the loaf pan and you’re good to go!) and cool completely before slicing and serving (or wrapping). MLBH truc: if you wait too long to release paleo loaf from its hot pan it’ll steam itself into a gummy pudding. Blech.