Lumberjack Cake – Maria Middlestead

Ingredients

• 2 large cooking apples (such as Granny Smith), peeled, cored and cubed
• 1 cup dates, chopped
• ½ cup dried apricots, chopped
• ¾ cup water
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 large free range egg
• ½ cup mild cold pressed oil (such as high-oleic sunflower)*
• ½ cup honey
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract*
• 1¼ cups rice flour*
• 1½ tsp gluten-free baking powder
• 75 ml (6 Tbsp) Milk Option*
• 60 ml (1/4 cup) mild cold pressed oil*
• ¼ cup apricot jam*
• ¾ cup long shred coconut