Apple Banana Raisin Cake
From All-Creatures.org Vegan Recipe Book: How Mary and Frank and Friends Eat

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Ingredients

1-1/2 cups Spelt or Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 cup Oat Flour OR Quick Rolled Oats
6-8 Dates, pitted
2 Apples
3 Bananas
1 cup Raisins
1 tsp. Cinnamon, ground
2 tsp. Baking Powder

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Preparation

Apple banana raisin cake is a quick and easy vegan recipe that is great for breakfast, dessert, or as a snack. Preparation time is about 15 minutes and baking time is about 10-12 minutes in a microwave oven, or about 25 minutes in a conventional oven at 350 degrees F.

If you don't have oat flour, or you can grind rolled oats in a blender or food processor.  Or, if you grind your own grain as we do in our Vita-Mix, you can grind the spelt, whole wheat and oats together in the dry container. Another option is to just add quick oats to the flour without grinding the oats.

Wash and clean the apples and bananas, remove the core from the apples, peel the bananas, and cut them into pieces.  Place the pieces in the container of a high speed blender (Vita-Mix type).  If you are concerned that the finished volume may be less than 3 cups, you can add another apple or banana after the initial mixing.   Add the pitted dates, cover, and run the blender at high speed until the contents become a smooth puree of 3 cups or a little less in volume.  Additional apples, bananas or water can be added if the volume is less.

Place the flour in a mixing bowl.  Add the cinnamon and baking powder, mix together thoroughly, add the raisins and mix well making sure that there are no raisin clumps, and that each raisin is coated with the flour mixture.

Lightly oil a two quart glass covered baking dish, if you wish to serve the cake on a plate; otherwise, we omit the oil, and cut the cake into wedges in the baking dish, and carefully lift out each piece with a flat table knife.

Add the apple, banana, date puree to the flour in the mixing bowl, and mix together thoroughly but quickly since the baking powder is beginning to react, and transfer the contents of the mixing bowl into the baking dish.  Smooth to the edges, cover and place in the oven to bake.  We bake this recipe in our microwave oven in about 10-12 minutes.

When there are bubbles boiling up the sides of the apple banana raisin cake and the surface is springy to the touch, remove the cake from the oven with pot holders, and lift it up to make sure the bottom is cooked; if not, bake for another minute or two, and then let it cool on a wire rack with the cover remaining on the baking dish.

If you wish to serve the cake on a plate when the apple banana cake has cooled, it should be slightly separated from the sides of the baking dish.  Uncover the baking dish and gently run a flat table knife around the edge of the cake to make sure that it has completely separated from the sides of the dish.  By gently moving the knife around the edge of the cake and lifting the bottom slightly, you can release the cake from the bottom of the baking dish.

Place a large plate up side down over the top of the baking dish, and holding the plate and baking dish tightly together, turn the baking dish over on top of the plate, and the apple banana raisin cake should fall out onto the plate.

Serve and enjoy!

Ingredients Information

Apples, Red Delicious

Baking Powder

Bananas

Cinnamon, ground

Dates, Deglet

Raisins, Thompson Seedless

Spelt

Wheat, Hard Red

Wheat, Hard White

Utensils and Equipment Information

Bowls, Stainless Steel Mixing

Dish, Glass Baking

Knives

Measuring Cups, Dry

Measuring Spoons

Spoon, Large Mixing

Vita-Mix

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The above recipe is in keeping with God's creation intent (Genesis 1:29-31): 'Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-- everything that has the breath of life in it-- I give every green plant for food." And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.' (NIV) Let no animal suffer or die that we may live!