Gluten free apple almond cake

Ingredients

• 50 g / 1.75 oz Butter
• 175 g / 6.1 oz Sugar, fine
• 2 medium Eggs
• 250 g / 8.75 oz Almonds, ground
• 250 g / 8.75 oz Applesauce
• 1 medium Orange, finely grated zest
• 100 g / 3.5 oz  Rice or Quinoa Flour
• 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
• 4 medium Apples
• 2 teaspoons Sugar

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Preparation

• Preheat your oven to 325 F / 180 C and prepare a 10 inch / 22 cm spring form pan. Get all your ingredients together and lets get started.
• Cream the soft butter, mix in the sugar and the eggs until light and creamy, then add the ground almonds the apple sauce and the orange zest.
• Sift the rice flour and the baking powder together and fold into the mixture with a spatula.
• Peel the apples, cut them in half and remove the core, cut them in fine slice, but keep together.
• Then pour the batter into the prepared spring form pan and layer the cut apples onto the batter, so they make a nice pattern. Sprinkle with a little bit of sugar.
• Bake the cake on the middle rack of the preheated oven for about 60 minutes or until a wooden pick comes out clean.
• Once the cake comes out of the oven, brush the apples with some warm apricot jelly, that will keep the cake looking shiny and it tastes great.