If that’s not enticement enough, this gluten and dairy free apple cinnamon cake with streusel topping recipe is so mouth watering, you will have to be restrained in order not to eat it all yourself (or maybe that was just me?)!I attempted a recipe I found online under “Easy Apple Cinnamon Muffins”. “Easy” is relative, of course. I did prepare them easily enough, especially since we have an apple peeler and corer which my son was thrilled to be allowed to use by himself! But as I said in an earlier post, they melted out over the edges and onto the bottom of my oven! They didn’t look pretty, but once I pried what was left from the pan, they were so addicting! I had to make them again! Looking at the online recipe again, I noticed many reviews having the same problem. That recipe said it would yields 6, however, I filled 12 muffin cups, and they still overflowed. Why would I assume this big, well known recipe company, would have their measurements right?! Silly me.For round two I used a cake pan rather than muffin tin and it worked beautifully! Once cooled, I cut them into bite size pieces. Good thing I had made them for a party we were off to (where they were a big hit), otherwise this would have been a huge mistake! They’re hard to resist in the first place, but in tiny morsels, it’s hard to justify not eating one more, and just one more after that, and maybe just one last one…. oh they’re so little, one tiny little piece more won’t hurt anybody? Right?

My version of the recipe is below. If you make them and don’t like them for some strange reason, drop them by my house. We wouldn’t want them to go to waste!

GF – DF Apple Cinnamon Cake with Streusel Topping

1 1/2 cups GF all-purpose one-to-one flour 3/4 cup white sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons GF baking powder 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 egg

1/3 cup almond milk 2 apples – peeled, cored and chopped Streusel Topping Ingredients:  1/2 cup white sugar 1/3 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup vegan butter, cubed (cold) 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1.	Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 9″x13″ cake pan.
2.	Stir together 1 1/2 cup GF flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt, GF baking powder and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Mix in oil, egg and almond milk. Fold in apples. Spoon batter into cake pan.
3.	In a small bowl, stir together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup GF flour, 1/2 cup vegan butter and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix together with fork and sprinkle over unbaked cake.
4.	Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the cake comes out clean.