Vegan Apple-Banana Pudding Cake Thingy

2 red apples
3 ripe bananas (mashed)
1 1/3 cup white flour
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup quaker old fashioned oats
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
Equivalent of 2 eggs (egg substitute)
cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar as desired

This recipe fed 6 adults and one banana-loving 2 year old.

1) Make egg substitute mixture (see below), add olive oil for consistency. Set aside.
Combine flour, sugar, baking power, and oats, then add egg substitute and mash with fork until well mixed.

2) Peel and cut apples in relatively thin equal slices. Arrange half in spiral in bottom of tall ceramic baking dish. Pour half of wet mixture over apples, then sprinkle brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg over the top as desired. Spread half of the mashed banana mixture over top of all.

3) Repeat second step, adding considerably more brown sugar and cinnamon (same amount of nutmeg). Add carved apple slices on top for decoration.

4) Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 - 2 hours, until chopstick inserted comes out clean and brown sugar on top has begun to carmelize. Don't worry if cake is still a bit runny - just put it in until you feel it's ready.

Note: I put this in the fridge overnight to keep till the next day, and I think it helped solidify things a little bit more. Then I just put it in the oven at 350 for another 15 minutes to warm it up.

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*Warning! It was late at night when I made this, and I'm not sure that I remembered it all correctly, so some of these directions may be funky.*

This was my first try at vegan baking, and I was surprised everything managed to rise like it was supposed to. Found a very good egg substitute recipe on switcheroo which goes like this:

Egg Substitute

'1 egg = 2 tablespoons liquid + 2 tablespoons flour + ½ tablespoon shortening + ½ teaspoon baking powder (Recipe from Substituting Ingredients by Becky Sue Epstein and Hilary Dole Klein.'

I read on a vegan cooking site that the trick is to add some olive oil - that way it gets to be about the right consistency to help lubricate the dry ingredients.

I started out with this recipe that I adapted from yet another one [I think on cooks.com, but that site hasn't been very good to me] and then realized it wasn't going to be enough to feed everyone that was coming.