Pumpkin Apple Upside Down Cake
This is a moist, sweetly spiced pumpkin cake topped with caramelized sliced apples. It’s gluten free, paleo and can easily be made dairy free.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 12 servings 1x
- Category: Dessert, Breakfast
- Cuisine: Paleo, Gluten-Free, Dairy Free Option
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 1/2 cups blanched almond flour (280 grams)
- 6 tablespoons tapioca flour (45 grams)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon fine grain Celtic sea salt
- 1 1/4 cups organic pumpkin puree
- 4 large pastured eggs
- 1 cup coconut sugar (192 grams)
- 3 Tablespoons coconut oil (42 grams)
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
For the Apples
- 1/4 cup grass-fed butter, coconut oil or ghee (57 grams)
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar (48 grams)
- 2 apples medium size peeled and sliced
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and grease the sides of a 9” round cake pan with butter or coconut oil. (you don’t have to grease the bottom).
- In a large bowl combine the almond flour, tapioca, baking soda, cinnamon, pumpkin spice and salt.
- Melt coconut oil, set aside.
- Measure the pumpkin and coconut sugar.
- Prepare the apples. Melt butter, ghee or coconut oil in a small pan
- Pour butter into the 9″ round baking pan.
- Sprinkle evenly with coconut sugar.
- Arrange apple slices in a circle in a single layer over sugar (eat any left over).
- In a large bowl, using a hand mixer, whisk together the pumpkin, eggs, coconut sugar, coconut oil and vanilla.
- Stir the dry mixture into the wet until fully combined.
- Pour the batter into the pan over the apples. Bake in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center of the cake comes out with a few crumbs.
- Cool the cake in the pan for 30 minutes on a wire rack, use a knife to loosen up the sides and flip onto a plate.
- Let cool for 1 hour before serving.
- Store at room temperature for 2 days or in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or freeze.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 23.7 g
- Sodium: 194.1 mg
- Fat: 14.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 33.3 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 5.8 g
- Cholesterol: 72.2 mg