Vegan Apple and Pecan Spice Cake

Ingredients:

2 cups plain flour
3/4 cups sugar
1 tsp nutmeg powder
1 tsp cinnamon powder
3 medium-sized apples, peeled and diced
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp baking powder
1-2 cups water
1/2 cup pecans

For Icing:

2 tbsp margarine
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp fine icing sugar/ castor sugar


Method:

• Pre-heat the oven at 150 degrees Celcius for about 30 minutes.
• In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking soda, vanilla essence, nutmeg and cinnamon powders and pecans. Mix thoroughly.
• Add baking powder and pour 2 tbsp water on the baking powder. Mix with the other dry ingredients.
• Add the diced apples.
• Pour the water slowly and keep mixing the batter. Pour enough water to make the cake batter fall in folds.
• Grease and flour an 8 or a 9 inch cake tin. Pour the batter in the cake tin and bake for about 50 minutes. After 40 minutes, check with a fork or a skewer if the cake is done. 
• Once it is done, let it cool for about 30 minutes and then, put it out on a plate.

For Icing:

• In a bowl, melt the 2 tbsp on margarine.
• Add the cinnamon and sugar. Mix well.
• Using a pastry brush, glaze the cake with this mixture. 
• Once it has cooled down, sprinkle some icing sugar/ castor sugar on the cake.

Variation: You may use any other nuts, like almonds, walnuts, brazil nuts, macademias, hazel nuts etc instead of pecans. You may also use butter instead of margarine if you are not a vegan and it'll make the crust richer.