Eggless Spiced Apple & nuts cake

I was craving badly for some sweet Yesterday. Went out but could not find any eggless stuff (because of Navratra) and returned home with a sad smiley. Had no plans to prepare anything as it was a very tiring day for me. But my severe craving made me to prepare something during midnight. Therefore decided to bake an eggless cake. Prepared Spiced apple & nuts 'chotu sa' cake. It was so light and flavorful that we finished it completely while it was warm. My kitchen had a strong n lovely fragrance of cinnamon, simply loved it. I am sure if you are going to try it you too will have a wonderful smile on your faces like I had.The recipe is very easy n quick to prepare. So lets quickly see the ingredients moving down with the method to prepare.

Ingredients :
I have divided the ingredients list in two parts- the dry & wet ingredients. 

Dry ingredients:

• All purpose flour/Maida : 1 cup
• Brown Sugar : 1/2 cup (quantity may vary as per the apple's sweetness)
• Apple : 1 large size
• Baking powder : 1 tsp
• Baking soda : 1/4 tsp
• Cinnamon powder : 1/4 tsp
• Nutmeg powder : 1/4 tsp
• Mixed nuts (I used walnuts, cashew, almonds & raisins ) : 1/2 cup
• Salt : a pinch

Wet ingredients :

• Curd/Yogurt (at room temperature) : 1/2 cup
• Oil : 1/4 cup
• Vanilla extract : 1/2 tsp

Method :

• First preheat the oven at 180°C.
• Prepare the apple sauce : Peel the apple and finely grate it. In a pan add grated apple and sugar. Let it cook for some time unless it forms a thick & shiny sauce consistency. When 90 % done, add cinnamon and nutmeg powder. Let the sauce cool down to room temperature.You can also prepare the sauce a day before.
• Sieve rest of the dry ingredients together (atleast 3 times)
• Mix the nuts with flour, so that they have a nice flour coating over them.
• In other bowl mix the wet ingredients very well.
• Add in the dry ingredients via folding method into the wet ingredients. Don't over mix.
• Pour into a greased cake tin. Bake it on the middle rack for 40-50 mins or unless a tooth pick inserted in the cake comes out clean.
• Give a rest of 5 minutes, demold and cool on a rack.

It taste best when its a bit warm. Serve it with vanilla ice cream or just like this only.

Thanks & Happy Baking
Priyanka :)