Today, a recipe for a dessert: water cake with apples and cocoa.

The water cake is a lighter and softer version of the classic cake, as it doesn’t contain eggs, milk, or butter!
A cake that remains beautifully moist inside with an overwhelming taste and aroma.
The water cake with apples and cocoa is a great breakfast dessert also suitable for those following a vegan diet.
I made it using annurca apples, but you can also replace them with golden apples or delicious pears.
With apples, you can create many recipes from the most classic apple cake to a delightful crumble with panettone.

Let’s see together, step by step, how to make this recipe!

Ingredients for the Apple Cake

Difficulty: Very easy
Cost: Very economical
Preparation time: 5 Minutes
Portions: 1 mold of 20/22 cm
Cooking methods: Oven
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: All seasons

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tbsps vegetable oil
1 1/4 cups water (warm)
1/3 cup sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
2 apples
to taste powdered sugar (optional)

Tools

1 Kitchen Scale
1 Bundt Cake Pan 22 cm
1 Spatula
1 Sifter
2 Bowls

Let’s Prepare the Water Cake with Apples and Cocoa Together

Prepare the ingredients by placing the oil and water in one bowl and the flour, baking powder, cocoa, and sugar in another.
Emulsify the liquids, then gradually add the sifted dry ingredients and mix with a spatula.

water cake batter

Wash the apples and cut them into small pieces (I left the peel on, but if you don’t like it, you can peel them). Remember to leave half an apple to place on top as decoration.
Add the apples to the previous mixture and stir.

finished water cake batter

Grease and flour a bundt cake pan

greased and floured pan

Pour the batter into it and decorate with the apple slices

water cake in the pan

Bake at 356°F for 30 minutes. Always do the toothpick test before removing from the oven; insert a toothpick in the center of our water cake with apples and cocoa, and if it comes out dry and clean, it’s ready. Let it cool slightly, then remove from the pan, and when it’s cold, sprinkle with powdered sugar (optional).