Submerged Whole Wheat Apple Cake

Ingredients

• 300 g spelt whole wheat flour
• 100 g ground hazelnuts
• 250 g butter
• 150 g coconut palm sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 5 apples
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 0.5 tsp cinnamon powder

Instructions

1. 1.

   Grease a springform pan with butter if needed and dust with flour. Cream the soft butter with coconut palm sugar until fluffy, then beat in the eggs. Mix flour, hazelnuts, and baking powder, then quickly fold into the batter. Peel, halve, core, and quarter the apples.

2. 2.

   Score each quarter but do not cut through. Drizzle immediately with a little lemon juice. Pour the batter into the pan, smooth it out, and press the prepared apple wedges into the batter. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C (180 °C fan‑forced; gas: level 3) for about 60 minutes. Let cool slightly and dust with powdered sugar if desired.