I had to make some substitutions, but I can tell that this cake would be fantastic if made as the recipe says. Just for others out there: I had no xantham gum, and only 1/4 cup vegetable oil. So I subbed half applesauce, half oil, and I also didn't have raw apples on hand. Only the dehydrated that you buy through the LDS cannery. I used the food processor on them, and added an extra egg (size medium), also used apple juice instead of orange...This turned out like a moist sponge cake. It was flat due to not having a bundt cake pan, but I thought it was a nice treat :) First time baking with spelt. Thanks for sharing!

Good flavor and texture, though I didn't bake for 60 minutes. After about 30, I turned my temp down to 350. The orange juice flavor was a bit strong, but I used fresh squeezed and that could be why. Over all, good cake!!

This was pretty easy to make. I made a few non-vital changes to the recipe. Rather than shredding the apples, I chopped them up between coarse and fine in my food processor; much quicker than shredding! I used flaxseed rather than olive oil and pineapple rather than orange juice, as that was all I had. I used wholemeal spelt flour instead of white. As I didn't have xanthan gum, I subbed half a cup of strong regular wholewheat flour to give it some gluten to help it stick together. A couple of comments. My cake needed nowhere near an hour to bake. I checked it about half an hour in and it was done! I don't know if using wholewheat flour prevented it from rising much or if that is just the nature of the cake. It wasn't too heavy, just dense. I might try it with 3 eggs next time (mine were only medium size anyways). It is very flavoursome and moist, so it's definitely a keeper.

I made this recipe primarily cause it was wheat free. It was delicious and very moist, unlike most wheat free stuff. Once it cooled slightly, it came out of the pan with no problems and I had to dig into it right way as the smell of it is amazing. What I did was cut it up ready to serve and then I mixed some icing sugar and milk together, to create a very watered down icing to pour overtop, to finish it off. So very yummy.